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Manuscript - Al Stewart Chords

Chords: Artist, Al, By, D, G, Am, A, F, Bb, Dm

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Genre: folk, rock, prog

Artist - Al Stewart
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Song - Manuscript

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Album - To Whom It May Concern

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Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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This Is the Small part he does on the G, and comes in Every so often.
D G
e|-2--2-2--2--2-2-|---3--3-2-3-2-0----|
B|-3--3-3--3--3-3-|---3--3-3-3-3-3--3-|
G|-2--2-2--2--2-2-|---0--0-0-0-0-0--0-|
D|-0--0-0--0--0-0-|-----------------0-|
A|----------------|-------------------|
E|----------------|-3-----------------| X2

[Verse 1]
D Am G
Prince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights down low
D A G
Silently sifting through papers sealed with a crown
D Am G D
Admiral Lord Fisher is writing to Churchill, calling for more Dreadnoughts
A G
The houses in Hackney are all falling down
D A D
And my grandmother sits on the beach in the days before the war
F G
Young girl writing her diary, while time seems to pause
Bb Dm
Watching the waves as they come one by one to die on the shore
Bb A Eb D
Kissing the feeeeeeeeeeet of England.
G D G D

[Verse 2]
D Am
Oh the lights of Saint Petersburg come on as usual
G D A
Although the air seems charged with a strangeness of late, yet there's
G
nothing to touch
D Am G
And the Tsar in his great Winter Palace has called for the foreign news
D A G
An archduke was shot down in Bosnia, but nothing much

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