Rambling Through The Avenues Of Time Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

  D D/C♯ D/B D/A G [G/f#]

Ae - - - - 3 (3) 0 5

B 7 7 7 7 3 (3) 0 5

A 5 4 - (5) 5 5 2 7

 I was waDndering through the D/C♯streets of the cD/Bity D/A

G [G/f#] Em A

Rambling through the avenues of time

 When from nDowhere myD/C♯ eyes fell D/Bonto a giD/Arl

  G [G/f#] Em A

And by chance her eyes fell onto mine

 So I sDat and I aD/C♯cted all noD/Bnchalant D/A

  G [G/f#] Em A

She smoked her lavender cigarette

DReading the D/C♯future that D/Blay in my hD/Aands

  G [G/f#] Em(strum once, let ring)

My shadow played a bass clarinet

(Bass clarinet plays, no guitar)

[Where are you going with this, Bret?]

 We wDaltzed down a D/C♯moonlight D/Bboulevard D/A

  G [G/f#] Em A

Just two silhouettes in the mist

[Ah, yes?]

DDays went D/C♯by and yD/Bears went D/Aby

G [G/f#] Em A

Moments went by when we kissed

[When was this?]

 She said, "You Dbeard is D/C♯woven of D/Bheartache D/A

  G [G/f#] Em A

And we'll drink for the lonely tonight."

 And the mDoon is a D/C♯horny old dD/Brunkard D/A

  G [G/f#] Em A

[Ah, Bret. Could you please move over to your right?]

(There is no guitar in this next part, but I'm sure you've figured out the pattern by

now if you wanna play along anyway)

We drank dandelion wine and we reminisced

About the moment when we first met that day

[I'm trying to watch TV]

Then we reminisced about how we first reminisced

[Ah yeah. Sounds a bit gay]

She handed me a broken memory

A keepsake to forevermore say

That brief taste of love is as sweet as any

And with that, she made her way

[Oh yeah. What was her name?]

 She sDaid her nD/C♯ame was a D/Bsecret D/A

  G [G/f#] Em A

Then she said her name was Cherie

 [Is her mDiddle name Cherie,D/C♯ so D/Bit's a SecD/Aret Cherie, maybe?]

G [G/f#] Em A

Mm.. Maybe

[What did she look like?]

 She lDooked like a D/C♯Parisian D/Briver D/A

[What, dirty?]

  G [G/f#] Em A

She looked like a chocolate éclair

[That's rare]

 Her eDyes were rD/C♯eflections of D/Beyes D/A

[Oh, nice]

  G [G/f#] Em A

And the rainbows danced in her hair

[Oh yeah..]

 She remDinded me of a D/C♯winter's morninD/Bg D/A

[What, frigid?]

  G [G/f#] Em A

Her perfume was eau de toilette

[What's that mean?]

 She was Dcomparable to D/C♯CleopD/Batra D/A

[Quite old?]

  G [G/f#] Em A

She was like Shakespeare's Juliet

[Thirteen?!]

 The bohDemians of D/C♯Soho did D/Bpirouettes D/A

  G [G/f#] Em A

As we waltzed through the streets of Manhattan

 On Drivers of D/C♯ribbon and D/Bsailboats of sD/Aong

G [G/f#] Em A

[Bret, did any of this actually happen?]

(guitar drops out here)

The girl I described, she's as real as the wind

It's true I saw her today

The other details are inventions

Because I prefer her that way