• Song:

    Ophelia

  • Artist:

    The Band

  • Album:

    Northern Lights, Southe...

J.R. Robertson/The Band


===Key:C===Tempo:125==


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C5
[intro]

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Boards on the window, mail by the door, what wd anybody leave so
quickly 4?

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G5
Ophelia              where have you gone wrong?

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The old n'hood just ain't the same; nobody knows just what became of

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D5   E5
Ophelia tell me,             what went wrong?

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Was it something that somebody said? Mama, I know we broke the rules.

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G7#5
Was somebody up against the law? Honey, you know I'd die for you.

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Ashes of laughter, the ghost is clear, why do the best things always
disa-

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G5
pear, like Ophelia?      Please darken my door.

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Was it something that somebody said? Honey, you know we broke the
rules.

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G7#5
Was somebody up against the law? Honey, you know I'd die for you.

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They got your number, scared & runnin', but I'm still waitin' 4 the
2nd

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comin' of Ophelia, come back home. [end]

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Fo' A' That, and A' That
It's Comin' Yet Fo' A' That
That Man to Man, the World O'er
Will Brothers Be, Fo' A' That

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