{"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":1845606,"song":"The Guitar","artist":"Darren Hanlon","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11408829-the-guitar-chords-by-darren-hanlon/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1845606?type=chord","rating":0.12359,"votes":0,"content":"Capo 3\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was a Sunday in east Berlin i chanced upon a market[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI thought how love or lack thereof matched the coins in my pocket[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nbut thats OK I have no pay I'm happy all the same[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nto look through a box of broken clocks and old Atari games[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand racks of army uniforms of both the west and east[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand postcards sent to people who were long ago deceased[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\na plastic orange comb left over from the GDR[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand in a nook behind some books an old parlour guitar[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nit was sat upon a wooden packing crate that had been flipped[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nand if the chance a cursory glance you'd call it non descript [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nbut I double took I stopped to look and it's just one of those things [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI do when at a loss I reached across and lightly brushed the strings[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nthe sound both deep and ancient came up from the hole beneath[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nthe kind that comes from timber given in to times bequethed[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nenough for me to wonder I put up my hand to hail[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nthe vendor of the table just to ask... if it's for sale[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Break]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwell he had a chin with whiskers in and in between his lips[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nhe held a cigarette he hadnt lit I took him for a gypsy[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nhe stooped and bent and complimented me on my selection[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nto my surprise within his eyes I saw my own reflection[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI dont him im not buying I'm just interested to know[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nso I thought how love or lack thereof matched my fiscal flow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nhe asked me for my name and when he handed it to me[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nhe said it undignified to talk of money... before history[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Break]\r\n\r\nand then he said....\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nif you hold it right up to the light in pencil can be seen[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nthe signature of the luthier and the date 1918[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nbut sir have you got the certificate of authenticity[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nhe said whats the point when you can get the story straight from me[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\na Russian commander first saw it in a shop window in Munich[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nhe was on a stroll and felt the roll of deutchmarks in his tunic[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nhe bought it on a whim and to his friend the commisar[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nsaid if I survive this war alive ill learn to play guitar[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nhe had one final 7 week assignment with his unit[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand I'm sad to say he was blown away before he learned to tune it[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Break]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nit was sent back to his greiving widow with the rest of his effects[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand it languished there under the stair right where the dust collects[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nbut there came a day when she passed away as well and without kin[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nso through her stash was labelled trash and put out with the bin[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nit was only sitting on that lonely street in Leningrad[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nfor an hour or two before being rescued up by a young lad[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nhe was on the hop afraid to stop for long for fear of prison[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\na balchevik who had been made awefully sick by communism[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nhe was disenchanted by the practice of the party scheme[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nhow it proved all men are equal seemed to be a tad extreme[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nhe walked down by the baltic sea and there he hopped a freigter[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand not a word was heard from him again... until many years later[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Break]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nthe old man stopped to rest and get his breath and his eyes they started glazing[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nover i told him this story was both trajic and amazing[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\noh dont stop now i must know how this ends and please be quick[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\ndo you know whht became of this mutanous balchevik?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Break]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwell the old gyspy looked back at me and his eyes they seemed to clear[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nhe said in 34 he went ashore in the city of Tangier[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nbut he came undone as hed become from all those years at sea[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\naddicted to, as sailors do, port wine and gin rummy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand one night in a game in a cafe near the medina[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nas the hour grew ever late the balchies kitty it grew leaner[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand when his francs were gone he prayed upon the evening star[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nthey took the coat that he was wearing, watch and ring....and that guitar[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Break]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nit was won by a german banker who liked it all just fine[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nwho'd grown soft with drinking thinking of his frauline[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwhile still abroad he'd learned some chords and in a few months later[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nwhen hes again back in berlin hed sit and serenade her[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nhe was held back in Morocco by the start of World War II[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand he learnt she'd met a young cadet and the two of them shot through[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nhe cursed and spat and vowed that as long as she still lingered [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nhe'd much rather than play guitar, cut off all his fingers[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Break]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwell i felt sorry for this banker but it just didnt align[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nif its 34 didnt the war begin in 39?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPedant! he cried, would you deny me a single concession[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\njust let me tell you how this thing came into my possession.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\ni bought it from a local pedler, who bought it from a priest[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nwho drove his congregation mad with it to say the least[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nhe'd picked it up for next to nothing browsing at a parish fete[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\ndonated out of charity from a deceased estate[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Accel]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nof a lovely music teacher who played it for her pupils[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nwho'd earlier procured it from a man with dubious scrupols[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwho'd pinched it from a folk rock busker somewhere in the town[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nwho'd been playing in Alexanderplatz the night the wall came down[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nhe got it cheaply off a man who run a music store for cash[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nwho swapped it from a trader with a handlebar moustache[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwho found it in a paper where it had been advertised[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nby the son of that German banker who's old girlfriend he despised[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nyou'd think any normal person would have just gone out and sold it[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nbut he kept it as a token of the time he was cuckolded[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nhe hid it in his attick and it survived the war up there[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nfor 30 years until his son went looking for a chair[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nhis dad refused to talk of it until he turned up his toes[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nbut now its found its way to you just give me 400 Euros.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe blood drained right out of the gypsy's face til it was ashen[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nhe seemed to be completely overcome by his own passion[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\ni couldnt bare to think this was elaborate salesman patter[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nbut like i said i had no bread so it really didnt matter[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nthe story clanged and banged around my head for the whole day[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nin spite of all the other things i saw it wouldnt stray[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nbefore i even knew it i found myself later on[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nrushing back to the gypsy but the guitar.... and he were gone[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Break]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nive learnt that what you dont buy today may not be there tomorrow[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand you are never strictly poor if youve a friend from which to borrow[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\ni thought the old gypsy knew this before he ever saw me[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nbecause when i went Sunday, he was waiting for me[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIve one more thing to sing my friends, if i may be so bold,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nthe guitar of which i sing, is the one which i now hold[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand to think of love, and the fullness of, is something i get from it[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand this song i sing wont mean a thing unless its played upon it.[/tab]","plain_text":"Capo 3\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Break]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Break]\n\nand then he said....\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Break]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Break]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Break]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Break]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Break]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Accel]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Break]","chords":["Am","G","C","E"],"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]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}