#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: Phillip Charles Saunders STRANGE AFFAIR Richard Thompson Transcribed by phillip@princeton.edu * (harm/art harm 12 frets higher) -|--0---------0----3----0---------0-----0----------------------------| -|-------3-1---------3-------3-1--------1----------------------------| -|-------------------------------------------------------------------| -|-------------------------------------------------------------------| -|-------------------------------------------------------------------| -|-------------------------------------------------------------------| GThis (320003@1)is a strange affair C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) CThe (x32010@1)time has come to travel but the road is filled with fear GThis (320003@1)is a strange affair C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) CMy (x32010@1)youth has all been wasted and I'm bent and grey with years F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) CAnd (x32010@1)all my companions are taken away F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) CAnd (x32010@1)who will provide for me against my dying day? F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) Dm (xx0231@1) Am (x02210@1) GI (320003@1)took my own provision but it threw me and wasted away C (x32010@1)FG CThis (x32010@1)is a strange, this is a strange affair Oh, where are my companions? My mother, father, lover, friend and enemy Where are my companions? They're prisoners of death now and taken far from me And where are the dreams I dreamed in the days of my youth? They took me to illusion and they promised me the truth And what do sleepers need to make them listen, why do they need more proof This is a strange, this is a strange affair