Madame George original guitar chords by
Van Morrison

1968•Rock•224 views•

Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Down on Cyprus Avenue

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With a childlike vision leaping into view

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Clicking clacking of the high heeled shoe

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Ford and Fitzroy, and Madame George

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Marching with the soldier boy behind

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He's much older now

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with hat on drinking wine

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And that smell of sweet perfume

comes drifting through

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All the cool night air like Shalimar

Verse 2

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And outside they're making all the stops

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The kids out in the street

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collecting bottle-tops

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Gone for cigarettes

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and matches in the shops

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Happy taken Madame George

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Woah, that's when you fall

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Woah-wo-wo-wo-wo- woah

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That's when you fall

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Yeah, that's when you fall

Verse 3

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When you fall into a trance

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A sitting on a sofa

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playing games of chance

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With your folded arms

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and history books you glance

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Into the eyes of Madame George

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And you think you found the bag

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You're getting weaker

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and your knees begin to sag

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In a corner playing dominoes in drag

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The one and only Madame George

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Then from outside

Verse 4

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The frosty window raps

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She jumps up and says

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"Lord, have mercy I think that it's the cops"

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And immediately

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drops everything she gots

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Down into the street below

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And you know you gotta go

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On that train from Dublin up to Sandy Row

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Throwing pennies

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at the bridges down below

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And the rain, hail, sleet, and snow

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Say goodbye to Madame

Bridge 1

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George

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Dry your eye for Madame George

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Wonder why for Madame George

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Woah

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And as you leave, the room is filled with music

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Laughing, music, dancing, music

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all around the room

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And all the little boys

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come around, walking away from it all

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So cold

Verse 5

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And as you're about to leave

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She jumps up and says "Hey love

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You forgot your gloves, and

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The love that loves

the love that loves the love

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That loves the love that loves to love

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The love that loves to love the love,

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the gloves"

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To say goodbye to Madame George

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Dry your eye for Madame George

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Wonder why for Madame George

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Dry your eyes for Madame George

Verse 6

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Say goodbye

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In the wind and the rain

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on the backstreet

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In the backstreet, in the backstreet

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Say goodbye to Madame George

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In the backstreet, in the backstreet,

in the backstreet

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Woah-oh, yeah-woah

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Down home,

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down home in the backstreet

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Gotta go

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Say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

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Dry your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye

Your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye

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Your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye

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Your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye

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Your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye

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Say goodbye to Madame George

Outro 1

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[Repeat and fade]

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Chords

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The original key of Madame George by Van Morrison is G major.

The primary chords used in Madame George are G, C, D.

No capo is required for this song.

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