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Bert Jansch : Bert Jansch
1965

  1. Strolling Down The Highway
  2. Oh How Your Love Is Strong
  3. I Have No Time
  4. Rambling's Gonna Be The Death Of Me
  5. Needle Of Death

  6. Dreams Of Love

Strolling Down The Highway

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Strolling down the highway
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I'm gonna get there my way
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Dusk till dawn I'm walkin'
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Can you hear my guitar rocking?
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While I stroll on down
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On down the highway People think I'm a-crazy But, Lord above, I ain't lazy The sun shines all day long The garlic's far too strong While I stroll on down On down the highway The cars won't stop for no one They think that you're just a rolling bum They think you're an OAS spy Gonna shoot them as they go by No cars, they won't stop Won't stop for no one Strolling down the highway And I'm gonna get there my way Dusk till dawn I'm walkin' Can you hear my guitar rocking? While I stroll on down On down the highway

Oh How Your Love Is Strong

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
Capo:
IV
Verse (the intro consists of the first three lines, with simplified picking)
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 Hey girl, oh how your love is strong Weaves a tumbling tearless song Though you don't seem to care that your love is blind You don't seem to care nor realise Hey girl, oh how my heart is torn Hey girl, now that your baby's born What shall it cost? Is my freedom lost? What is the price of nature's own way? Hey girl, how could I dress your child When this life girl I'm livin' so wild? Will your newborn child grow to be as wild? And walk alone to meet his destiny? Hey girl, see how I stand a man Hey girl, see I've no father's hand Would it be a crime to leave at such a time When you've many claims to make on me? Hey girl, oh how your love is strong Weaves a tumbling tearless song Though you don't seem to care that your love is blind You don't seem to care nor realise

I Have No Time

Capo:
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I have no time to spend with you
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You talk of nothing, what can you do?
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You live like kings and you know it's true
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That if famine crossed the waters that'd be the end of you I've heard of people who till the earth Who sow their seeds for what they're worth Who cry for rain all summer long And weep for the day when winter's passed and gone If cherry trees bore fruit of gold The birds would die, their wings would fold They'd sing no more their song of love Nor await the morning sun that lights the sky above If war returns like it did before A kiddy's penny would be no more They'd cry for love and their candy too But a kiddy's wants are nothing till killin' days are through So drink your fill, be happy now The times will change and you'll wonder how A man could die from lack of food But you don't give a damn, no reason why you should

Rambling's Gonna Be The Death Of Me

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
Capo:
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Needle Of Death

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When sadness fills your heart And
F#m
Eadd9
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sorrow hides the longing to be free (Your)
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troubled young life has made you turn
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to a needle of death
Eadd9
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D/a
When sadness fills your heart
F#m
Eadd9
And sorrow hides the longing to be free
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D/a
When things go wrong each day
F#m
Eadd9
You fix your mind to escape your misery
F#m
Your troubled young life
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Had made you turn
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D/a
Eadd9
To a needle of death How strange, your happy words Have ceased to bring a smile from everyone How tears have filled the eyes Of friends that you once had walked among Your troubled young life ... One grain of pure white snow Dissolved in blood spread quickly to your brain In peace your mind withdraws Your death's so near your soul can't feel no pain Your troubled young life ... Your mother stands a-cryin' While to the earth your body's slowly cast Your father stands in silence Caressing every young dream of the past Your troubled young life ... Through ages, man's desires To free his mind, to release his very soul Has proved to all who live That death itself is freedom for evermore And your troubled young life ...

Dreams Of Love

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 A troubled wind has chilled my heart Killed our love right from the start And visions of your face Twist in my mind into knots of silken lace A chance to win a hand so fair Fades with night in a single prayer Then a straw hat on your head Brings morning dreams to alight upon my bed If dead men swam the waters deep Then fish would cry all in their sleep My love, I can only try To lift my head from the depths as you walk by Now banjos ring and fiddles play A candle burns to light my way And turning in my sleep I dream again of your love, your love to keep