Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres chords by
Al Stewart

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Key: D major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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On a Christmas

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cake day one Friday in August

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In a bookshop in Charing Cross Road

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I first set eyes on a girl and at

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once I did know

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She had eyes like a poet

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and hair like a rainbow

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Re flecting the lights that did glow

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And the sadness she kept

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in her eyes

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Struck my senses a blow

Verse 2

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And so as by chance at the

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touch of a glance

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We could find ourselves out in the road

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With no crush of time to defeat

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us and no place to go

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And I couldn't say how but the

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coffee bar crowd

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Had appeared through the silence

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that broke

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And she said, Oh my father's

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a judge in St Albans you know

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Oh well, then perhaps I could

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help you

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You know that St. Albans

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is miles away

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And I've got a room in Swiss

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Cottage in which you could stay

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She laughed, Oh I couldn't do that,

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for I've got

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To be up in the morning you see

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So I rang up to find out the first

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morning train she could take

Verse 3

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And so in the gloom of a candlelit room

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With spaghetti,

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two forks and a plate

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She said, Oh I really would like

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to be free and escape

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Oh well if it's like that

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You don't have to go back

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And you're perfectly

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welcome to stay

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But I've not finished school yet

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She said as she got into bed

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Verse 4

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And so as she slept and the pure

morning crept

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Through the windows to take her away

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I thought you can't make people be

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what you want them to be

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I could see my self nailed

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to a dormitory tale

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Of a holiday night's escapade

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And just yesterday she had seemed

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like a woman to me

Verse 5

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And so like a child with the

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sleep in her eyes

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Where the sadness of age had once been

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She left on the train with a see

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you again and a smile

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And I couldn't say what

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I had won or I lost

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Or even just what I had seen

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But when I'm alone I just think

Outro 1

of her once in awhile

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