{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1446721,"song":"Manuscript","artist":"Al Stewart","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11256969-manuscript-chords-by-al-stewart/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1446721?type=chord","rating":4.59244,"votes":9,"content":"This Is the Small part he does on the G, and comes in Every so often.\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\ne|-2--2-2--2--2-2-|---3--3-2-3-2-0----|\r\nB|-3--3-3--3--3-3-|---3--3-3-3-3-3--3-|\r\nG|-2--2-2--2--2-2-|---0--0-0-0-0-0--0-|\r\nD|-0--0-0--0--0-0-|-----------------0-|\r\nA|----------------|-------------------|\r\nE|----------------|-3-----------------| X2[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPrince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights down low[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSilently sifting through papers sealed with a crown[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAdmiral Lord Fisher is writing to Churchill, calling for more Dreadnoughts[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe houses in Hackney are all falling down[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd my grandmother sits on the beach in the days before the war[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYoung girl writing her diary,    while time seems to pause[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bb[/ch]                                                       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWatching the waves as they come one by one to die on the shore[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Bb[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]Eb[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nKissing the feeeeeeeeeeet of England.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOh the lights of Saint Petersburg come on as usual[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAlthough the air seems charged with a strangeness of late, yet there's nothing to touch[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the Tsar in his great Winter Palace has called for the foreign news[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAn archduke was shot down in Bosnia, but nothing much[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd my grandmother sits before the mirror in the days before the war[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSmiling a secret smile     as she goes to the door[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bb[/ch]                                                 [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd the young man rides off in his carriage, homeward once more[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Bb[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]Eb[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the sun sets gentlyyyyyyyyyyyy on England.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAh the day we decided to drive down to Worthing, it rained and rained[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nGiving us only a minute to stand by the sea[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]Am[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd crunching my way through the shingles, it seemed there was nothing changed[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThough the jetty was maybe more scarred that I'd known it to be[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd Mandi and I stood and stared at the overcast sky[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere ten years ago we had stood, my Grandfather and I[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bb[/ch]                                                 [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd the waves still rushed in as they had the year that he died[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bb[/ch]                                                   [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd it seemed that my lifetime was shrunken and lost in the tide[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]Bb[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]Eb[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAs it rose and fell on the sideeeeeeeeeee of England[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nPrince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights[/tab]","plain_text":"This Is the Small part he does on the G, and comes in Every so often.\n\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nG D G D\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nG D G D\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nG D G D","chords":["G","D","B","A","E","Am","F","Bb","Dm","Eb"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}