• Song:

    The Golden Calf

  • Artist:

    Prefab Sprout

  • Album:

    From Langley Park To Me...

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

INTRO
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A                              A
Once upon a time I stalked the streets on raining evenings
         D7M/9                        A    A/G
When the distant sea blended with the sky
     A                              A
Past Coliseums filled with brass on pavements carved from toasted glass
  D7M/9                        A    
I carried in my heart a word or two

     F#74
Your dashing horseman all gone away
     D7M
Left you the stable bill to pay
    F#74                           D7M
And now the golden calf has turned to clay
F#74
All my feelings dressed in gloves
         D7M
Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love
F#74                               D7M
White and open-necked you would still play

A                             A
I'd resort to sleepwalking to catch the mood that fills the sails
     D7M/9                             A    A/G
With harvest nets and tides don't ever bring
    A                              D7M/9
But every night was Halloween, and every friend fell in between
    D7M/9                        A  
And how capricious nature ruled my mind

     F#74
Your dashing horseman all gone away
     D7M
Left you the stable bill to pay
    F#74                           D7M
And now the golden calf has turned to clay
F#74
All my feelings dressed in gloves
         D7M
Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love
F#74                               D7M
White and open-necked you would still play

INTERLUDE 1
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A                              A
Once upon a time I stalked the streets on raining evenings
         D7M/9                        A    A/G
When the distant sea blended with the sky
   A                                D7M/9
My mouth was full of cigarettes, my hair is full of long-term bets
    D7M/9                            A    A/G
But you would always make me see the day  


     F#74
Your dashing horseman all gone away
     D7M
Left you the stable bill to pay
    F#74                           D7M
And now the golden calf has turned to clay
F#74
All my feelings dressed in gloves
         D7M
Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love
F#74                               D7M
White and open-necked you would still play

INTERLUDE 2
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D7M                             F#74            D7M    
  I sound so different these days,  I barely can believe I'm me
F#74                    D7M    
  If I didn't know better,   I would swear I was someone else
F#74                  D7M    
   Lord I can't believe,    I don't believe I'm me
F#74       D7M    
   But who on earth could I be?

SOLO
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     F#74
Your dashing horseman all gone away
     D7M
Left you the stable bill to pay
    F#74                           D7M
And now the golden calf has turned to clay
F#74
All my feelings dressed in gloves
         D7M
Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love
F#74                               D7M
White and open-necked you would still play, play, play, play ...

     F#74
Your dashing horseman all gone away
     D7M
Left you the stable bill to pay
    F#74                           D7M
And now the golden calf has turned to clay
F#74
All my feelings dressed in gloves
         D7M
Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love
F#74                               D7M
White and open-necked you would still play

(fade over last chorus)
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