ALMOST LUCY                   Al Stewart

Am                                C
Lucy works a different club every day
                      G
And 'tho she puts her mind to it
                   Dm   FM7
Her heart is never in it
    Am                                   C
She stays around just long enough to get paid
                   G
She won't pass the time with you
                 Dm     FM7
She can't stay a minute
    G                              Am
And all these changing faces never bothered her at all
          G              F              C              G
They just existed like a back-drop or a pattern on the wall
                               Am
Lucy looks like someone who is waiting for a call
    Em          Am        Em    Am                E7
She knows he'll come, but noone else can hear at all


Am                                   C
Lucy finds the dressing room and the bar
                      G
Hangs her clothes up, hopes tonight 
                      Dm     Fm7
The contract won't be broken
           Am                                       C
Well, they kick you round so much when you're not a star
                  G                              Dm     FM7
Make you play all night just for a pittance or a token
    G                             Am
But all these imperfections never bothered her at all
            G                F                 C                  G
She says it sharpens your perception when your back's against the wall
                                      Am
There's something that enables her to rise above it all
   Em       Am        Em      Am              E7
To shrug it off, just when it seems to go too far

chorus:

Am                         G       FM7                  Em
Hey, Hey, Hey, I think you almost, feel the pain comin' on inside
Am                         G       FM7                       Em
Hey, Hey, hey, I think you almost, feel it now and you don't why
                Dm   Am   Em  Am
You don't know why ooh

THIRD VERSE (FIRST HALF GUITAR SOLO, SAME CHORDS AS FIRST VERSE)

    G                                Am
The last time that I saw her she had given up the chase
      G           F             C             G
Moved away to California, got a suntan on her face
                                    Am
She said that life was just another time another space
     Em    Am      Em        Am              E7
It's over now, she learned a lot, it's not a waste

CHORUS
CHORUS


  Am                             G                           FM7
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|-1-----0-------------------0h1--3-----1-----0-----0------------|
|-|---------2---2-----2-------|--|-----------------|----0-------|
|-|--2--------2-|--2----------2--|--0-----------0--|--0---------|
|-0-------0-----0--------0-------|-----------------|------------|
|--------------------------------3--------3--------3-------3--1-|


                    1st time        Em
|----0------------||----------------------------------0--------||
|---------3----1--||----0-----------0-----------0--------------||
|--------------|--||----------2-----|-----2--------------------||
|-3---------3--|--||-3-----------3--|--2-----------2-----------||
|--------------|--||----------------|--------------------------||
|------1-------1--||-------1--------0--------0------------0----||


  2nd time       Em                                  Dm
||---------0-----0-----------------0-----0h3---0----------------|
||----1h3--------|------------0----|-------|---------3----------|
||------|--------|-----0-----------|-------|---------|-----2----|
||-3----|-----3--|--2------------2-|--2----|-----2---|--0-------|
||------|--------|-----------------|-------|---------0--------0-|
||------1--------0--------0--------0-------0--------------------|


         Am                    Em
|--------------------------------------------------||
|--3-----1-------------1-------0------------0------||
|--------|------2--------------|------0------------||
|-----0--|---2------------2----|---2----------2----||
|--------0---------0-----------|-------------------||
|------------------------------0---------0---------||


Chords:

FM7= 1x3210

The first time around (Hey..inside), play the first two "sets" of
tablatures. The second time around (Hey..why), play up to the first
double vertical line in the second set, and then switch over to the
third set until the end. Apologies if my idiosyncratic notation
offends the music purists!