Artist: The Moody Blues
Song: The actor
Tabbed by: DJ
18th June 2013

Tuning: Standard

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e|---------------|
B|---------------|
G|---------------|
D|---------------|
A|---3---3---3---|
E|---------------|


D               Cadd9       G/B     Cadd9
    The curtain rises on a scene,
D                 Cadd9         G/B        Cadd9
    With someone shouting to be...   free--------,
D                 Cadd9           G/B    Cadd9
    The play un - folds before my eyes,
D                    Cadd9          G/B   C    D   Cadd9
    There stands the actor who is... me-------------------! 
                                     ^    ^ ^

   G/B   Cadd9   D    Cadd9   G/B   Cadd9
|  /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / |


D                Cadd9         G/B     Cadd9
    The sleeping hours take us far,
D                   Cadd9          G/B       Cadd9
    From traffic, telephones, and...    fear--------,
D                 Cadd9            G/B     Cadd9
    Put out your problems with the cat,
D              Cadd9                G/B  C
    Escape un - til the bell you... hear!
                                      ^  ^ ^

      Am                              G
Our reasons are the same, but there's no one we can blame,
              F
For there's nowhere we need go,
         E                  (E7)           Am
And the only truth we know...    comes so easily!

e|---------------------|
B|---------------------|
G|---------------------|
D|---4--0--------------|
A|---------3--2--3--0--|
E|---------------------|

      C           G                  Am
The sound I have heard in your hel - lo,
Em       F                     Em
Oh---, darling, you're almost part of me,
         F                             Em
Oh---------, darling, you're all I'll ever see!
F        Fm        C
Ah-----, ah------, ah---------!


    D    Cadd9   G/B   Cadd9   D    Cadd9   G/B   Cadd9
||: /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  /:||(x2)


D               Cadd9          G/B     Cadd9
    It's such a rainy after - noon,
D               Cadd9     G/B       Cadd9
    No point in going any-----where-------,
D                   Cadd9           G/B     Cadd9
    The sounds just drift across my room,
D                Cadd9              G/B   C    D   Cadd9
    I wish this feeling I could... share---------------!
                                     ^    ^ ^

   G/B   Cadd9   D    Cadd9   G/B   Cadd9
|  /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / |


D               Cadd9         G/B     Cadd9
    It's such a rainy after - noon,
D                 Cadd9          G/B     Cadd9  D
    She sits, and gazes from her...  win-------dow,
              Cadd9          G/B     Cadd9
Her mind tries to recall his face,
D            Cadd9               G/B   C
   A feeling deep inside her... grows-----!
                                   ^   ^ ^

      Am                              G
Our reasons are the same, but there's no one we can blame,
              F
For there's nowhere we need go,
         E                  (E7)           Am
And the only truth we know...    comes so easily!

e|---------------------|
B|---------------------|
G|---------------------|
D|---4--0--------------|
A|---------3--2--3--0--|
E|---------------------|


      C           G                  Am
The sound I have heard in your hel - lo,
Em         F                    Em
Oh----, darling, you're almost part of me,
           F                      Em
Oh----, darling, you're all I'll ever see!


      C           G                  Am
The sound I have heard in your hel - lo,
Em         F                      Em
Oh----, darling, you're all I'll ever see,
           F                    Em
Oh----, darling, you're almost part of me!
F        Fm        C
Ah-----, ah------, ah---------!


(Gradually slow down on third repeat)
    D    Cadd9   G/B   Cadd9   D    Cadd9   G/B   Cadd9
||: /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  /:||(x3)

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D     =  xx0232     Am = x02210    E7 = 020100
Cadd9 =  x32033     G  = 355433    Em = 022000
G/B   =  x20033     F  = 133211    Fm = 133111
C     =  x32010     E  = 022100