Key: Gb major•
Verse 1
F#
B
G#m
B
F#
B
G#m
F#
The
C#
morning is humming,
B
it's a quarter past nine
F#
C#
A#
I should be working down in the vines
D#m
G#m
But I'm lying here with
D#m
a good friend of mine
G#m
D#m
Watching the sun in her hair
Verse 2
C#
B
I pick the grapes from the hills to the sea
F#
C#
A#
The fields of France are a home to me
D#m
G#m
Ah, but today lying here is
D#m
a good place to be
C#
F#
I can't go anywhere
C#
Verse 3
F#
C#
But as we slip in and out
G#m
of embrace
B
D#m
Like some old and familiar place
B
C#
Reflecting all of my dreams
F#
C#
in her face like before
F#
G#m
F#
C#
On the last day of June 1934
Verse 4
B
Just out of Cambridge in a
narrow country lane
F#
A bottle- green Bentley
C#
in the driving rain
D#m
G#m
Slips and skids round a corner,
D#m
then pulls straight again
G#m
D#m
Heads up the drive to the door
Verse 5
C#
The lights of the party shine
B
over the fields
F#
Where lovers and dancers watch
C#
A#
Catherine wheels
D#m
G#m
And argue real ities
D#m
dig ging their heels
C#
F#
C#
In a world that's finished with war
Verse 6
F#
And a lost wind of summer
C#
blows into the streets
G#m
Past the tramps in the alleyways,
B
D#m
the rich in silk sheets
B
And Europe lies sleeping,
C#
You feel her heartbeats
F#
C#
through the floor
F#
B
G#m
On the last day of June nineteenth
Verse 7
F#
On the night that Ernst
Roehm died voices rang out
B
F#
In the rolling Bavarian hills
And swept through the cities and
danced in the gutters
B
F#
Grown strong like the joining of wills
Verse 8
F#
Oh echoed away like a roar in the distance
B
F#
In moonlight carved out of steel
D#m
C#
Singing "All the lonely,
D#m
so long and so long
C#
D#m
You don't know how I long, how I long
You can't hold me,
C#
D#m
I'm strong now I'm strong
C#
Stronger than your law"
B
C#
Interlude 1
F#
B
F#
Verse 9
C#
B
I sit here now by the banks of the Rhine
F#
Dipping my feet in the
C#
cold stream of time
D#m
G#m
And I know I'm a dreamer,
D#m
I know I'm out of line
G#m
With the people I see everywhere
Verse 10
D#m
C#
The couples pass by me,
B
they're looking so good
F#
Their arms round each other,
C#
they head for the woods
D#m
G#m
They don't care who Ernst Roehm was,
D#m
no reason they should
C#
F#
Just a shadow that hangs in the air
C#
But
Verse 11
F#
I thought I saw him
C#
cross over the hill
G#m
With a whole ghostly army
C#
D#m
of men at his heel
B
C#
And struck in the moment it seemed
F#
C#
to be real like before
F#
G#m
On the last day of June nineteen thirty four
Outro 1
F#
B
F#
B
F#
F#
B
F#
G#m
F#
B
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# B G#m C# A#...
F#
B
G#m
C#
A#
D#m
Capo: 4
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