HARPER ROY - "when an old cricketer" Tablature

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[Song: Roy Harper "When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease"]
[Transcription by Gordon Walker <scogpw@thor.cf.ac.uk>]

When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease (Harper)
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When the day is done, ...
C Fmaj7
In the umpire's ...
C Dm
And all remains, in the ...,
C Fmaj7
For the rest of ...
C G
There'll be one mad dog and his master, ....
C Em C Dm
On a dusty pitch, with two pounds six, of ...
C Fmaj7 C G

When an old cricketer leaves the crease, you ....
C Fmaj7 C Dm
If maybe you're catching a fleeting ...
C Fmaj7 C G
And it could be Geoff, and ...
C Fmaj7
With a new ball ....
C Dm
And it could be me, and ...
C Fmaj7
And it could be the sting ....
C G Fmaj7

Solo on verse

Verse 2 (chords as above - sorry don't have the words to hand)

Chorus (as above)
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Chord note for for beginners:
All chords played as normally given in any book in standard tuning in 1st
position (ie at the bottom of the neck - which is physically the top if you're
holding the neck upwards!). Note that Roy plays G with 4 fingers - fingering
D on the B string, which makes the chord sound nicer (you dont get the jump
from B up to G for the top two strings - if any notes are to be missed
out of a chord, better to miss the 3rd(B) than the 5th(D) in general)
i.e.:

............playing D instead of open B
:
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and for complete beginners the rest of the chords:

Fmaj7 C Dm Em

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