{"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":1670029,"song":"Days Gone By","artist":"Jon Boden","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11348551-days-gone-by-chords-by-jon-boden/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1670029?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"'Days Gone By' by Jon Boden, the ever so talented frontman of Bellowhead, half of Spiers and Boden, \r\nand one of Eliza Carthy's Ratcatchers.\r\nThis from his awesome Post-Apocalyptic-folk-concept-album 'Songs from the Floodplain'\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nLying on the motorway this morning,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI thought I heard a distant thunder rolling,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSo I lay so still on the motorway,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\n‘Till the cavalcade came screaming past like hellhounds in my ears,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIt was over in a moment, the wind like a tornado,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe sweet perfume of petrol like a lovers parting kiss,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThen I closed my eyes on the motorway,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I dreamed about the days gone by, brave boys,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI dreamed about the days gone by.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLying on the motorway this evening,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe gypsies came up close while I was sleeping,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSo quietly down the motorway,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nPulling their possessions in the cover of the night,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey too had seen the whirlwind, the shining black procession,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nScreaming past like gods ascending through a tarmac sky,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSo they hid themselves by the motorway,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd dreamed about the days gone by, brave boys,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey dreamed about the days gone by.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]     \r\nAnd what were they doing, those people from the government?[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBurning sacrificial gasoline to keep the dogs at bay.[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd there were shadows in the hedgerows and strange lights from the sliproads,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo we huddle on the motorway, brave boys,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe huddled on the motorway[/tab]","plain_text":"'Days Gone By' by Jon Boden, the ever so talented frontman of Bellowhead, half of Spiers and Boden, \nand one of Eliza Carthy's Ratcatchers.\nThis from his awesome Post-Apocalyptic-folk-concept-album 'Songs from the Floodplain'","chords":["C","Am","G","F"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"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]}}}