• Song:

    MacArthur Park

  • Artist:

    Richard Harris

  • Album:

    The Webb Sessions 1968-...

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D5                               F5
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
                 Eb5
It ran one step ahead
                      G5 G5 Bb5 Ab5 G5
As we followed in the dance
D5                                F5
Between the parted pages and were pressed,
                       Eb5
In love's hot, fevered iron
                       G5 G5 Bb5 Ab5 G5
Like a striped pair of pants

   C5                             C5
MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
                           C5
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
F5                                F5
Someone left the cake out in the rain
            C5
and I don't think that I can take it
          D5  
'cause it took so long to bake it
         C5               C5   C5
and I'll never have that recipe again
    Eb5
Oh, no!

D5                         F5
I recall the yellow cotton dress
               Eb5
foaming like a wave
                          G5 G5 Bb5 Ab5 G5
on the ground around your knees
    D5                                F5
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
                        Eb5              G5 G5 Bb5 Ab5 G5
and the old men playing checkers by the trees

   C5                             C5
MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
                           C5
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
F5                                F5
Someone left the cake out in the rain
            C5
and I don't think that I can take it
          D5  
'cause it took so long to bake it
         C5               C5   C5
and I'll never have that recipe again
    Eb5
Oh, no!

F5                              F5
There will be another song for me
           Bb5   Bb5
For I will sing it
Bb5                    
There will be another dream for me
             F5 F5
Someone will bring it
Bb5                                G5
I will drink the wine while it is warm
    A5                                    D5
and never let you catch me looking at the sun
    G5                        C5
And after all the loves of my life
F5         F5           Bb5
after all the loves of my life
                    Eb5    C5
You'll still be the one.

       F5                    F5
I will take my life into my hands
           Bb5  Bb5
and I will use it
Bb5
I will win the worship in their eyes
           F5 F5
and I will lose  it
Bb5                              G5
I will have the things that I desire
       A5                                   D5
and my passion flow like rivers through the sky.
    G5                        C5
And after all the loves of my life
F5         F5           Bb5
After all the loves of my life
                    Eb5
I'll be thinking of you
              D5
and wondering why.

F5                 Bb5             F5
MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
                           F5       F5
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Bb5            
Someone left the cake out in the rain
            D5
and I don't think that I can take it

'cause it took so long to bake it
         G5                      Bb5
and I'll never have that recipe again
   F5    C5     Ab5 
Oh, no!      Oh no
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