#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: Phillip Charles Saunders Gypsy Love Songs, Richard Thompson (Drop D tuning) transcribed by phillip@princeton.edu A (x02220@1)Main riff -|------------------| -|------------------| -|-2--2--0----------| -|-0--0--0--3--0----| -|----------3--0----| D|-------------0----| DmTropical (xx0231@1)night, Malaria moon Dying stars of the silver screen She danced that famous Gypsy dance With a hole in her tambourine DmI (xx0231@1)was young enough and dumb enough I swallowed down my Mickey Finn She'd hijacked a few hearts all right I went into a tailspin Bb (x1333x@1) Dm7/A Gm7 Don't sing me, don't sing me, don't sing me Bb/F (102220@1) DmNo (xx0231@1)more gypsy love songs Bb (x1333x@1) Dm7/A Gm7 Don't sing me, don't sing me, don't sing me Bb/F (102220@1) DmNo (xx0231@1)more gypsy love songs Gm/D DmDon't (xx0231@1)stir it up again DmI (xx0231@1)put my arm around her waist Says she, young man, you're getting warm The room was going somewhere without me And she laughed as she read my palm Chorus Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1) F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) Dm (xx0231@1) GStillborn (320003@1)love, passionate dreams, pitiful greed Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1) F (133211@1) CAnd (x32010@1)the silver tongues of the tinker girls, Dm (xx0231@1) EmWho (022000@1)throw their book of life at you F (133211@1) GBut (320003@1)don't know how to read DmShe (xx0231@1)was third generation Transylvanian I was the seventh son of a seventh son I begged the band don't play that tune Please don't beguine the begun DmWhen (xx0231@1)I awoke, she'd cut and run She stole my blueprints and my change Just a horseshoe and a note on the bed And all it said was--strange Chorus
