Roy Harper - When an old cricketer
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[Song: Roy Harper "When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease"]
[Transcription by Gordon Walker <scogpw@thor.cf.ac.uk>]
When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease (Harper)
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When the day is done, and the ball has spun
In the umpCire's pocket away, Fmaj7
And allC remains, in the Dmgroundsman's pains,
For Cthe rest of time and Fmaj7a day.
TherCe'll be one mad dog and Ghis master, pushing for 4 with the spin.
On a dusty piCtch, with two poundsEm six, ofC willowwood in the sun.Dm
C Fmaj7 C G
When an old cricketer leaves the crease, you never know whether he's gone,
If maybeC you're catchiFmaj7ng a fleeting glimpse, Cof a twelfth man at silDmly mid-on.
And Cit could be Geoff, and iFmaj7t could be John, C G
With a nCew ball sting in his tFmaj7ail.
And it Ccould be me, and it coDmuld be thee,
And it Ccould be the sting iFmaj7n the ale.........sting in the ale.
C G Fmaj7
Solo on verse
Verse 2 (chords as above - sorry don't have the words to hand)
Chorus (as above)
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Chord note for for beginners:
All chords played as normally given in any book in standard tuning in 1st
position (ie at the bottom of the neck - which is physically the top if you're
holding the neck upwards!). Note that Roy plays G with 4 fingers - fingering
D on the B string, which makes the chord sound nicer (you dont get the jump
from B up to G for the top two strings - if any notes are to be missed
out of a chord, better to miss the 3rd(B) than the 5th(D) in general)
i.E.:
............playing D instead of open B
:
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and for complete beginners the rest of the chords:
Fmaj7 C Dm Em
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