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Richard Thompson : What We Did On Our Holidays 1968


  1. Fotheringay
  2. Book Song
  3. No Man's Land
  4. I'll Keep It With Mine

  5. Nottamun Town
  6. Tale In Hard Time
  7. She Moves Through The Fair
  8. Meet On The Ledge

Fotheringay

<Sandy Denny>
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Dm
Em
Am
x2
Am
C
G
F
Am
How often she has gazed from castle windows o'er
Em
Am
And watched the daylight passing
G
Am
Within her captive walls
Dm
Em
Am
With no one to heed her calls
Am
Dm
Em
Am
The evening hour is fading with the dwindling sun And in these lonely moments Those embers will be gone And the last of all the young birds flown
Am
Dm
Em
Am
Her days of precious freedom forfeited long before To live such fruitless years Behind a guarded door But those days last no more
Am
Dm
Esus4
E
Am
Dm
G
C
F
Dm
Em
Am
x2
E
Em
C
F
E
Am
Tomorrow at this hour she will be far away Much further than these islands For the lonely fotheringay
Am
Dm
Em
Am
x2


Book Song

Em
D
C
G
If she knew what I've seen while I'm watching
C
G
C
Would she know where to smile, what to say?
Em
D
G
When she leaves from her book to be with me
Em
C
G
Where's her mind as she stands while I play?
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Am
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| She left behind names in the pages And the time she took out, they stayed in Now she thinks that she maybe should tell them Of my book and the places she's been Now she's looking at me while I'm writing Does she know where to smile, what to say? When she leaves from her book to be with me What's she thinking about while I play?


No Man's Land

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Hey, come and make it easy
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D
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D
A
Hey, come and make it black
D
E
It's no use to be free
F#m
C#7
D
E
If lies are all the truth they see
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F#m
E
Esus4
They'll screw up what you do (
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) When you're through
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| Hey, come and make it easy Hey, come and make it black If you need a friend And you need a way to lose the end You know a place for you When you're through |
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Hey, come and make it easy Hey, come and make it black It's no use to be free If lies are all the truth they see They'll screw up what you do When you're through |
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I'll Keep It With Mine

<Bob Dylan>
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C
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C
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C
F
C
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Am7
G
Am7
G
Am7
G
Am7
G
Am7
G
Am7
G
Am7
G
Am7
You may search at any cost
G
Am7
G
Am7
But how long can you search for what's not lost?
G
Am7
Bm7
C
G
Everybody will help you
G7
C
Eb
G
Some people are very kind..
C
G
C
G
But if I can save you any time
C
G
Come on, give it to me
Am
D
G
Am7
G
Am7
I'll.. keep it with mine..
I can't help it, if you might think I'm odd If I say I'm loving you, not for what you are, but for what you're not Everybody will help you Discover what you set out to find.. But if I can save you any time Come on, give it to me I'll.. keep it with mine..
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Am7
G
Am7
G
Am7
The train leaves at half past ten But I'll be back tomorrow at the same time again The conductor, he's weary He's still stuck on the line.. But if I can save you any time Come on, give it to me I'll.. keep it with mine..
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C
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C
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C
G
Am7
G
Am7
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Am7
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Am7
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Am7
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Am7


Nottamun Town

<Trad; Roud 1044>
Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
Dm
Dsus4
Dm
Dsus2
Dm
/a
Dm
In Nottamun town not a soul would look up Not a soul would look up, not a soul would look down Not a soul would look up, not a soul would look down To show me the way to fair Nottamun town
And the king and the queen and the company more Came walking behind and a riding before Come a stark naked drummer a-beating the drum With his hand on his bosom came marching along Sat down on a hard hot cold frozen stone Ten thousand stood round me yet I was alone Took my hat in my hand for to keep my head warm Ten thousand got drowned that never was born
Instrumental
In Nottamun town not a soul would look up Not a soul would look up, not a soul would look down Not a soul would look up, not a soul would look down To show me the way to fair Nottamun town


Tale In Hard Time

(Show chord shapes)
C/g x32013
Am7 x02213
Bb6 x13333
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C/g
Am7
Take the sun from my heart
C/g
G
Let me learn to despise
C/g
Bb6
F
C
G
I'll show you another who cannot tell lies
C/g
Am7
The blind man can't see
C/g
G
Who demands to his eyes
C/g
Bb6
D
Bm
C
Bb
G
I'll show you another who sings as he cries
G
C/g
Bb6
F
C
G
C/g
Am7
I cannot be whole
C/g
G
As the beggar who sighs
C/g
Bb6
F
C
G
I'll show you another who knows as he dies


She Moves Through The Fair

<Trad; Roud 861>
Tuning: DADGAD (not sure for the Fairport version)
D
C
G
x4
D
C
D
My young love said to me, my mother don't mind
C
D
C
D
And my father won't slight you for your lack of kind
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C
D
And she laid her hand on me and this is she did say
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D
It will not be long love till our wedding day
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C
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x2
And she went away from me and moves through the fair And fondly I watched her move here and move there And then she went homeward, just one star awake Like a swan in the evening moves over the lake
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C
D
x2
Last night she came to me, my dead love came in So softly she came that her feet made no din And she laid her hand on me and this she did say Oh, it will not be long love till our wedding day
D
C
G
D


Meet On The Ledge

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Em
We used to say
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Em
That come the day
D
/c#
Bm
Bm7
Am
Am7
We'd all be making songs
C
G
Or finding better words
C
G
D
These ideas never lasted long
The way is up Along the road The air is growing thin Too many friends who tried Were blown off this mountain with the wind
D
Am
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
C
G
When my time is up I'm gonna see all my friends
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Am
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
C
G
If you really mean it, it all comes round again
Yet now I see I'm all alone But that's the only way to be You'll have your chance again Then you can do the work for me Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge When my time is up I'm gonna see all my friends Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge If you really mean it, it all comes round again