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The Long Goodbye – Roger Chapman and the Shortlist
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

Roger Chapman and the Shortlist
The Long Goodbye (1981)
(Chapman)

From: "Hyenas Only Laugh For Fun"

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VERSE
      F                                                Gm              C
While walking on the bank of the wild wild river, just losing the day
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An old man appeared, I was afeard and started moving away
            F
He said: 'I mean you no harm' – 
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And his voice it was calming to my troubled mind
        C             Gm                         Eb
He went on and said: 'Son, boy don't you runaway blind'


CHORUS
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From the very first cry, very first cry
Gm                    F   Gm  C
  From the very first cry, it comes


VERSE
     F                                                  Gm               C
So I stopped and I turned, he looked at me eyes holding gentle concern
          C                           Gm                  Eb
'Take the heat off your brow, please, suffer an old man's tongue'
              F 
'Cause if you worry your life then like the wild wild river, 
      Gm                  C
It’ll never stay long
       C                    Gm                        Eb
Unlike winters go round and summers go south and it's ... gone


CHORUS
                    F   Gm          F
From the very first cry, very first cry
Gm                    F   Gm  C
  Like the very first cry, it comes
                    Bb
The long goodby-i-y-ye, yeah


SOLO
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VERSE
        F                                           Gm
Well, I lost myself down by the wild wild river and pondered upon
C                 Gm               Eb
What was meant by who was sent but now was gone
     F                                      Gm                 C
On reflection it seems, simple naive in the face of despair
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But if I'm losing my way, then help me to climb that stair


CHORUS
                    F   Gm          F
From the very first cry, very first cry
Gm                    F   Gm  C
  From the very first cry, it comes
                    Bb
The long goodby-i-y-ye


OUTRO (solo + vocals ab lib)
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Here it comes (the long goodbye, the long goodbye)
The long goodbye (the long goodbye, the long goodbye)
Here it comes, the long goodbye

(repeat and fade)