One Crowded Hour Chords

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Verse

A

Gpect to see something that Amyou hadn't seen in some-

Bmbody you've known since Cyou were sixteen and if

DLove is a Embolt from the blue then

CWhat is a bolt but a Gglorified screw and that

CDoesn't hold nothing to-DgetherD far from these

Verse

A

GNonsense bars and their Amnowhere music it's

BmMaking me sick and I Cknow it's making you sick there's

DNothing there it's likeEm eating air it's like

CDrinking gin with Gnothing else in and

CThat doesn't hold me to-DgetherD but for

Chorus

GOne crowded Amhour you were the Bmonly one in the Croom I

DSailed around all those Embumps in the night to Cyour beacon in the Ggloom I

BThought I had found my Cgolden September in the Gmiddle of that purple EmJune but

GOne crowded Amhour would Clead to my Dwreck and Gruin now I know you like

Verse

B

GYour boys who take their Ammedicine from the

BmBowl with a silver Cspoon who

DRun away with the dish and Emscale the fish by

CThe silvery light of the Gmoon who were

Verse

C

BTaught from the womb to be-Clieve till the tomb that as

GFar as their bleeding eyes Emsee is a

GPleasure pen meant for them Ambuild-ed and rent for them

  CNot for the Dlikes of Gme no not for the

CLikes of you and Dme__D__ and for

Chorus

GOne crowded Amhour you were the Bmonly one in the Croom and I

DSailed around all those Embumps in the night to Cyour beacon in the Ggloom I

BThought I had found my Cgolden September in the Gmiddle of that purple EmJune but

GOne crowded Amhour would Clead to my Dwreck and Gruin oh but the

Bridge

DGreen-eyed Dharpy of the Bmsalt AmlandG__ she

D D(F#-bass) 'Bm 'Am G

Takes in-to hers my hand__ and she says

Em A9 'Bm 'Am D D(F#-bass)

Boy I know you're lying oh but then so am I and to this I said oh

Solo

(short chorus)

GWellAm Bm C

D Em, C*(G-bass) G*

B C G Em

G Am C D Now

Verse

B

GPut me in a cage full of Amlions I'll learn to speak

BmLion in fact I Cknow the language

DWell I picked it Emup while I was

C*(G-bass) G*

Versing myself in the languages they speak in

Verse

D

AmHell that night that Bmsilence gave birth to a Cbaby they

DTook it away to her Emsilent dismay and they

C Raised it to be a Glady now she

C, D, D,(F#-bass)

Can't keep her mouth shut__ and for

Chorus

GOne crowded Amhour you were the Bmonly one in the Croom and I

D Em, C*(G-bass) G*

Sailed around all those bumps in the night to your beacon in the gloom I

BThought I had found my Cgolden September in the Gmiddle of that purple EmJune but

GOne crowded Amhour would Clead to my Dwreck and Gruin and yes that

Chorus

VARIATION:

GOne crowded Amhour you were the Bmonly one in the Croom and I

DPlayed a few songs for those Embumps in the night in fact

C*(G-bass) G*

I played this very tune but you said

BWhat is this six string-ed Cinstrument but anG adolescent loomEm__ and

GOne crowded Amhour would Clead to my Dwreck and ruinG__

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Barre chord voicings:

* root on 6th-string

, root on 5th-string

Organ plays a G-note drone through several chords.

These voicings mimic the ensemble harmony:

The chord progression is not consistent

hence the labelling of verses A B C D.