The Coldest Winter In Memory - Al Stewart

Note: Not in the same key as the original recording.

Verse

    C                 G         F   C
The coldest winter in memory was 1709
    C                 G                   F                 G
The sea froze off the coast of France all along the Neptune line
       Am           Em          F                 G#dim (x20101)
By the lost town of Dunwich the shore was washed away
     C                G                         F                 C
They say you hear the church bells still as they toll beneath the waves


     C               G              F             C
Come all you earthly princes, wheresoever you may be
         C               G                      F            G
>From the Sun King in the court of France to the Tsar in Muscovy
        Am                 Em          F           G#dim
Take of heed of Charles of Sweden, the Lion of the North,
       C                G              F             C
On the cracked earth of summer with his army he goes forth

Chorus

Am         Em    F               G#dim
Guardian angels wherever you may be,
C     G        F                C
reach down and keep my soul for me

The following verses are all on the same model. Between verses, there is a
recurring synth theme (the 'Coldest Winter'theme?) that can be
approximated by holding a C chord and varying the fifth string fingering:

|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|--1--1--0--1--1--0--1--1--0--1--3--1--0--1---------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|

The guitar solo in the middle of the song sounds roughly like this:


|--0--0h1p0--------------------------1p0---------------0h1h3----|
|------------3-----------0--1--1--1-------1---------1-----------|
|---------------0--0--2----------------------0h2----------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|

|--0--0--5--3--3--------0--1--0--------------------------1p0----|
|-----------------3--3-----------3--1--------------0--1-------1-|
|--------------------------------------2--0--0--2---------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|

|--------------|0--0--1--3--5--7--10--10--13<12--12h13h15--13p12|
|--0--1--0-----|0-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------0--|0-----------------------------------------------|
|--------------|2-----------------------------------------------|
|--------------|2-----------------------------------------------|
|--------------|0-----------------------------------------------|

|--10-------0h1p0-------------------------|
|------6h8---------3--1-------------------|
|------------------------2--0-------------|
|------------------------------3p2p0------|
|-------------------------------------3---|
|-----------------------------------------|


h: hammer-on
p: pull-off
|: slow strum (top to bottom)
<: release bend

Chorded and tabbed by Patrick Laplagne (plaplagn@metz.une.edu.au)