ROGERS STAN - "forty-five years" Tablature

From: dmerrett@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Doug Merrett)

Just so happens I've got that one on the machine.... Let's see now...
Oh yeah, a caveat, since I actually play mandolin I usually simpify guitar
chords, not knowing how to translate them there sus's and things... So this
might not be strictly chapter and verse, but it works. Enjoy.

Forty-Five Years (guitar - capo 3rd fret) - By Stan Rogers


G
Where the Earth show it bones ...

D/F#
and the sea and ...

Am C
I'm caught out of time, my ...

D/F#
and I'm running ....

G
There's God in the trees, I'm ....

D/F#
and the sky is a ...

Am C D/F# G
I'd like to look around, but ....


CHORUS

Intro to chorus is G-C-G-D/F#

C G C G
And I just want to hold you closer than ....

C G
You say you've been twice a wife and ...

Am Am/G D/F#
Ah but Honey what ...

C G
After twenty-three years you'ld ...

C G
to let you ....

Am Am/G D/F# G
That I want to see your smiling face ....



G
The summer city lights ....

D
'Til you'd think that ...

Am C
And I'm sitting with friends ...

D
Will buy another ...

G
He's got something to say....

D
That I don't know who ...

Am C D G
'Cause you just walked in the door, ...


To Chorus

G
So alone in the lights on ...

D/F#
I've been reaching out ...

Am C
Who knows all the words, ...

D/F#
And knows how all ....

G
Maybe after the show ....

D/F#
Home with her for ....

Am C D/F# G
Now her smile lights her eyes, but .....


Repeat Chorus twice