{"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":2502945,"song":"Closing Time","artist":"Fairport Convention","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11509176-closing-time-chords-by-fairport-convention/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2502945?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo, we're drinking and we're dancing[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the band is really happening[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the Johnny Walker wisdom's running high[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd my very sweet companion[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nShe's an angel of compassion[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nShe's rubbing half the world against her thigh[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nEvery drinker every dancer[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nLifts a happy face to thank her[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the fiddler fiddles something so sublime[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the women tear their blouses off[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the men they dance on the polka-dots[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd it's partner found and it's partner lost[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's closing time[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the women tear their blouses off[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the men they dance on the polka-dots[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd it's partner found and it's partner lost[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's closing time[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nClosing time[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell, we're lonely, we're romantic[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nSociety's psyched with acid[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the Holy Spirit's crying, \"Where's the beef?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd the moon is swimming naked[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd the summer night is fragrant[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWith a mighty expectation of relief[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo we struggle and we stagger[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nDown the snakes and up the ladder[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTo the tower where the blessed hours chime[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I swear it happened just like this[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nA sigh, a cry and a hungry kiss[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe gates of love they budged an inch[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nI can't say much has happened since[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut closing time[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI swear it happened just like this[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nA sigh, a cry and a hungry kiss[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThe gates of love they budged an inch[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut you can't say much has happened since[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSince closing time[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nClosing time[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI loved you for your beauty[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut that doesn't make a fool of me[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nYou were in it for your beauty too[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I loved you for your body[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThere's a voice that sounds like god to me[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDeclaring that your body's really you[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]D[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G/B[/ch]  [ch]D/A[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut I loved you when our love was blessed[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I love you now there's nothing left[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]B[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut sorrow and a sense of overtime[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I missed you since the place got wrecked[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I just don't care what happens next[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nLooks like freedom but it feels like death[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt's something in between, I guess[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's closing time[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nClosing time[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOh, we're drinking and we're dancing[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nYet there's nothing really happening[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThis place is dead as heaven on a Saturday night[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd my very close companion[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nGets me humping, gets me laughing[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nShe's a hundred but she's wearing something tight[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n(Tight, tight, tight, tight, tight, tight)[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I lift my glass to the awful truth[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut you can't reveal to the ears of youth[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nExcept to say, it isn't worth a dime[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the whole damn place goes crazy twice[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt's once for the Devil and it's once for the Christ[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut the boss don't like those dizzy heights[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe're busted in the blinding lights[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's closing time[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's closing time[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\n(Closing, drinking, Devil, dancing)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nClosing time[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nClosing time[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nClosing time[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nG   D   G   D\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nD  C  G/B  D/A\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]","chords":["G","D","Em","Bm","C","B","A","G/B","D/A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"G/B":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,0,0,0,2],"frets":[-1,2,0,0,0,3]}}}