One Stage Before

Artist - Al Stewart ********************** Song - One Stage Before ************************* Album - Year Of The Cat ************************* ********************** CHORDS ARE *********** Gm - 3 5 5 3 3 3 Eb - X 6 8 8 8 6 Bb - 6 8 8 7 6 6 F-133211 Cm - 3 3 5 5 4 3 Dm - X X 0 2 3 1 INTRO - Acoustic Strumming - Gm Eb X6 *************************** Electric Guitar - strums the chords once through the song. **************** ------------------------------------------------------------ VERSE 1 ******** Gm Eb Gm Eb It seems to me as though I've been upon this stage before Bb F Cm Gm Eb And juggled away the night for the same old crowd Gm Eb Gm Eb These harlequins you see with me, they too have held the floor Bb F Cm Gm Eb As here once again they strut and they fret their hour ------------------------------------------------------------ BRIDGE ******* Bb F Eb Gm Cm I see those half-familiar faces in the second row F Cm Dm Ghost-like with the footlights in their eyes Eb Bb Cm Bb F Gm But where or when we met like this last time, I just don't know Cm F Dm (Gm Eb X4) It's like a chord that rings and never dies for infinity ------------------------------------------------------------ VERSE 2 ********* Gm Eb Gm Eb And now these figures in the wings with all their restless tunes Bb F Cm Gm Eb Are waiting around for someone to call their names Gm Eb Gm Eb They walk the backstage corridors and prowl the dressing rooms Bb F Cm Gm Eb And vanish to specks of light in the picture-frames ------------------------------------------------------------ BRIDGE ******* Bb F Eb Gm Cm But did they move upon the stage a thousand years ago F Cm Dm In some play in Paris or Madrid Eb Bb Cm Bb F Gm And was I there among them then, in some travelling show Cm F Dm (Gm Eb X4) And is it all still locked inside my head for infinity ------------------------------------------------------------ VERSE 3 ******** Gm Eb Gm Eb And some of you are harmonies to all the notes I play Bb F Cm Gm Eb Although we may not meet still you know me well Gm Eb Gm Eb While others talk in secret keys and transpose all I say Bb F Cm Gm Eb And nothing I do or try can get me through the spell ------------------------------------------------------------ BRIDGE ******* Bb F Eb Gm Cm So one more time we'll dim the lights and ring the curtain up F Cm Dm And play again like all the times before Eb Bb Cm Bb F Gm But far behind the music you can almost hear the sounds Cm F Dm (Gm Eb X4) Of laughter like the waves upon the shores of infinity GUITAR SOLO ************ 03:22 b p p --rbp----------|---s---13--17-15-|-18-18-17--18-17-15--18-17-15- -13--11--13-11-|-13\15-----------|------------------------------ ---------------|-----------------|------------------------------ ---------------|-----------------|------------------------------ ---------------|-----------------|------------------------------ ---------------|-----------------|------------------------------ whammy bar br 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Great solo to play along to, tricky bit is hard but gets easier the more you play it. Enjoy..............