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[Song: Roy Harper "When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease"]
[Transcription by Gordon Walker ]

When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease (Harper)
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When the day is done, and the ball has spun
          C (x32010@1)                 Fmaj7In (1x3210@1)the umpire's pocket away,
       C (x32010@1)              DmAnd (xx0231@1)all remains, in the groundsman's pains,
    C (x32010@1)                  Fmaj7For (1x3210@1)the rest of time and a day.
    C (x32010@1)                     GThere'll (320003@1)be one mad dog and his master, pushing for 4 with the spin.
             C (x32010@1)                 Em (022000@1)    C (x32010@1)                    DmOn (xx0231@1)a dusty pitch, with two pounds six, of willowwood in the sun.
      C (x32010@1)              Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)            C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)When an old cricketer leaves the crease, you never know whether he's gone,
        C (x32010@1)           Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)                C (x32010@1)                    DmIf (xx0231@1)maybe you're catching a fleeting glimpse, of a twelfth man at silly mid-on.
    C (x32010@1)                     Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)               C (x32010@1)                      GAnd (320003@1)it could be Geoff, and it could be John,
        C (x32010@1)                   Fmaj7With (1x3210@1)a new ball sting in his tail.
       C (x32010@1)                   DmAnd (xx0231@1)it could be me, and it could be thee,
       C (x32010@1)                 Fmaj7And (1x3210@1)it could be the sting in the ale.........sting in the ale.
       C (x32010@1)                       G (320003@1)         Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)Solo on verse

Verse 2 (chords as above - sorry don't have the words to hand)

Chorus (as above)
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Chord note for for beginners:
All chords played as normally given in any book in standard tuning in 1st
position (ie at the bottom of the neck - which is physically the top if you're
holding the neck upwards!). Note that Roy plays G with 4 fingers - fingering
D on the B string, which makes the chord sound nicer (you dont get the jump
from B up to G for the top two strings - if any notes are to be missed
out of a chord, better to miss the 3rd(B) than the 5th(D) in general)
i.e.:

        ............playing D instead of open B
        :
       /
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and for complete beginners the rest of the chords:

   Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)          C (x32010@1)           Dm (xx0231@1)           Em (022000@1)x==========    ===========    ===========    ===========
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|_|_|_2_|_|    |_|_2_|_|_|    |_|_|_2_|_|    |_1_2_|_|_|
|_|_3_|_|_|    |_3_|_|_|_|    |_|_|_|_3_|    |_|_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_|    |_|_|_|_|_|    |_|_|_|_|_|    |_|_|_|_|_|
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