Chord Gitar dan Lirik Lagu Manuscript – Al Stewart: Young Girl Writing Her Diary

Berikut ini chord gitar dan lirik lagu yang berjudul Manuscript, yang dinyanyikan dan dipopulerkan oleh Al Stewart.
Chord Gitar dan Lirik Lagu Manuscript – Al Stewart:
VERSE 1
D A GPrince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights down low
D A GSilently sifting through papers sealed with a crown
D A G DAdmiral Lord Fisher is writing to Churchill, calling for more Dreadnoughts
A GThe houses in Hackney are all falling down
D
A DAnd my grandmother sits on the beach in the days before the war
Bb D F GYoung girl writing her diary, while time seems to pause
Bb D FWatching the waves as they come one by one to die on the shore
Bb A DKissing the feeeeeeeeeeet of England.
G D G D
VERSE 2
D AOh the lights of Saint Petersburg come on as usual
G D A GAlthough the air seems charged with a strangeness of late, yet there\’s nothing to touch
D A GAnd the Tsar in his great Winter Palace has called for the foreign news
D A GAn archduke was shot down in Bosnia, but nothing much
D
A DAnd my grandmother sits before the mirror in the days before the war
Bb D F GSmiling a secret smile as she goes to the door
Bb D FAnd the young man rides off in his carriage, homeward once more
Bb A DAnd the sun sets gentlyyyyyyyyyyyy on England.
G D G D
VERSE 3
D A G
Ah the day we decided to drive down to Worthing, it rained and rained
D A GGiving us only a minute to stand by the sea
D A GAnd crunching my way through the shingles, it seemed there was nothing changed
D A GThough the jetty was maybe more scarred that I\’d known it to be
D
A DAnd Mandi and I stood and stared at the overcast sky
Bb D GWhere ten years ago we had stood, my Grandfather and I
Bb DAnd the waves still rushed in as they had the year that he died
Bb DAnd it seemed that my lifetime was shrunken and lost in the tide
Bb A DAs it rose and fell on the sideeeeeeeeeee of England
G D G D
D A FPrince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights
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