Transcription by Gordon Walker 


When the day is done, and the ball has spun
          C                   F7M
In the umpire's pocket away,
       C                Dm
And all remains, in the groundsman's pains,
    C                    F7M
For the rest of time and a day.
    C                       G
There'll be one mad dog and his master, pushing for 4 with the spin.
             C                   Em      C                      Dm
On a dusty pitch, with two pounds six, of willowwood in the sun.
      C                F7M              C                 G

When an old cricketer leaves the crease, you never know whether he's gone,
        C             F7M                  C                      Dm
If maybe you're catching a fleeting glimpse, of a twelfth man at silly mid-on.
    C                       F7M                 C                        G
And it could be Geoff, and it could be John,
        C                     F7M
With a new ball sting in his tail.
       C                     Dm
And it could be me, and it could be thee,
       C                   F7M
And it could be the sting in the ale.........sting in the ale.
       C                         G           F7M

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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2_ | _ | _ | _3_4
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and for complete beginners the rest of the chords:

   F7M            C             Dm             Em

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 | _ | _ | _ | _1_ |      | _ | _ | _ | _1_ |      | _ | _ | _ | _ | _1     | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 
 | _ | _ | _2_ | _ |      | _ | _2_ | _ | _ |      | _ | _ | _2_ | _ |      | _1_2_ | _ | _ | 
 | _ | _3_ | _ | _ |      | _3_ | _ | _ | _ |      | _ | _ | _ | _3_ |      | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 
 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |      | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |      | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |      | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |