All this Crazy Gift of Time

(unfinished - I forgot the chorus!)

 
Does the world seem 
good to you?
Does the music 
get to you?
Does the wisdom 
of your heart
show you how to 
play your part?

All my blonde and twilight dreams,
All those strangled future schemes,
All those glasses drained of wine,
All this crazy gift of time.

You, dear sister, 
kiss of mine
can you cope with 
all this time?
With your mystic 
all awry.
Feeling small be-
-neath the sky.

All my blond, etc.

Happy birthday 
to you all.
I hope you really 
have a ball.
And when you're walking 
up the road,
I hope you final-
-ly explode!

Goodbye, everybody
Now it's time to go.
I hope I don't leave you feeling low, 
Oh no...

Kevin Ayers
Joy of a Toy 1969

Picked chord
022100 E
044300 F#11
021202 B7
022100 E
022100 E
044300 F#11
021202 B7
022100 E






022100 E
044300 F#11
021202 B7
022100 E
022100 E
044300 F#11
021202 B7
022100 E



022100 E
044300 F#11
021202 B7
022100 E
022100 E
044300 F#11
021202 B7
022100 E

    Chords given in the form xxoo4o2 (Bm) represent the frets stopped on each of the six strings of the guitar, lowest pitch on the left, highest pitch on the right, with standard tuning EADGBE. A t means that the thumb is used to fret the low E string. An x means that this particular string is not played, or damped, and an o means that it is open (no fret is fingered for that string - or, if you like, the "zeroth" fret is stopped). A 4 (for example) means that a finger is placed on fingerboard behind (towards the tuning-peg end) the 4th fret. Or, if you like to think of it that way, in the 4th "space" between frets. (Most guitars have mother of pearl dots inlaid behind the 3rd, 5th 7th, 9th and 12th (octave) frets.)