Night Of The 4th Of May chords by
Al Stewart

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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And the days they flew by
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A A 
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And the leaves fell from
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Bm Bm 2
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the trees
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A A 
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And many times you came around
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D D 
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And many times you slept with me
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And every time that we made love
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D D 
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You wrote it down in your diary
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Lady of ladies
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Verse 2
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D D 
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Em Em 
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D D 
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But I   would always say to you
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B B 2
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Don't ask about tomorrow
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Give what you have,
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take what you need
C C 
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B B 2
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Your time is only now
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B B 2
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Don't try to tie me down to promises
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B B 2
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I  live for today, today is all there is
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Am Am 
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B B 2
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And freedom seems to be everything
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to me

Interlude 1

Verse 3
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I took you down to a party
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A A 
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On the night of the
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G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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4th of May
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A A 
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And a strange and growing restlessness
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D D 
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Em Em 
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Had hung in the air all day
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A A 
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The need to try and tear down
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D D 
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And destroy all
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that we'd made
Lady of ladies
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Verse 4
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D D 
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D D 
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You whispered in my ear and asked me
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If I fancied her
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D D 
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Em Em 
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You told me that he'd phoned you
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C C 
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B B 2
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When I was in America
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B B 2
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Daring each other just to say okay
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B B 2
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Swap for tonight, didn't I al ways say
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Am Am 
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That freedom seems to be
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Em Em 
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everything to me

Verse 5
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And she came and she sat
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Em Em 
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down beside me
C C 
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And you found an excuse
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Em Em 
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to go downstairs
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B B 2
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And she smiled and made
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B B 2
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The kind of conversation that you do
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B B 2
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And later on she said
Em Em 
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'My last train has gone
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B B 2
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Em Em 
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Oh I wonder if you could run me home'

Verse 6
Am Am 
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B B 2
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And I found you in the hall
Em Em 
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way and told you
B B 2
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That was all that I would do
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B B 2
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Just run    her home and it's through
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Em Em 
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Oh I thought you knew
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G G 
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But I must confess
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C C 
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Em Em 
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I laid my head on her breast
D D 
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And it seemed so hard
To pull it away
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Verse 7
Em Em 
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D D 
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G G 
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Her hand touched my hand
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C C 
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Em Em 
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And her eyes were offering the rest
If it wasn't for you,
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C C 
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oh I would have stayed
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D D 
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But I came back home
C C 
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through the morning
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D D 
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C C 
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To find you lying awake
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D D 
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C C 
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And I knew all at once what you'd done
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B B 2
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And I heard myself say
Em Em 
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"Why did you have to sleep with him
Anyone else
Wouldn't have mattered
Half

Interlude 2

As much as him"

Verse 8
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I don't want to touch you
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A A 
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Bm Bm 2
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D D 
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Somehow you feel unclean
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I just wish that you
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D D 
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Em Em 
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Were five hundred miles away from me
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G G 
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Don't talk at all, don't start to cry
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Em Em 
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Just pack up your things
Lady of ladies
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Verse 9
Em Em 
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D D 
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Em Em 
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D D 
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And though I'd always told myself
C C 
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B B 2
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That when our time ended
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D D 
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Em Em 
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D D 
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I'd walk away with no regrets
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And no attempts to stay
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B B 2
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Somehow it doesn't seem to be that way
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I  find I'm needing every word you say
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Am Am 
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This freedom seems to be
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Em Em 
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everything to me

Verse 10
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B B 2
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Em Em 
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And you went up to Cambridge
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And you stayed in your
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Em Em 
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brother's room
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B B 2
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And you wro te me a letter
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and sent it the same afternoon
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B B 2
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Em Em 
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You said "I just want to hurt myself
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Em Em 
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Oh I need you so badly now"

Verse 11
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And you told me
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"Without you there seem
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s to be no horizon at all
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Just no     crack in the wall
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No place  lower to fall
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Verse 12
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"Hey don't leave me,
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don't leave me
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The shapelessness of the dawn
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Floods above and beneath me,
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I can't go on

Verse 13
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And I had to  walk right
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into the trap
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B B 2
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And I had to say please come back
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Though I felt all the while
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My resistance slipping away
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Verse 14
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Why did I have to fall for you
Anyone else
Wouldn't have hurt me
Half
As much as you

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