Modern Times - Al Stewart & Dave Mudge
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  Hello old friend etc....

   G                F
So call the bar-man over here

     Em    D        C      D
And let us fill our glasses

    G                       Em
And drink a toast to olden times

       D                C    D
Where all our memories lie,

       G            D    Em
Where all our memories lie.



G          Em           C                G
  Do you remember, the time when we were young

          Em   C   F  C/E
  Lowly lowly low

 G             Em        C                G
  Outside the window the frosty moonlight hung

            Em         C
  On the midnight snow

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  So we pulled our scarves up around our faces in the night

  D                                  C                  G
  Huddled on the doorsteps where the fairylights shone bright

  D                                  C                  A
  Singing christmas carols while our breath hung in the light 
 
 G              D          A        C  D  Em
  It all comes back like yesterday

             D         C
  It almost seems like yesterday

 G         Em         C             G
  Do you remember the changes as we grew

           Em      C   F  C/E
 Slowly, slowly, slow

 G                Em         C            G
  Sneaking in the back in to movies after school

           Em    C
 For the evening show

 D                                C                 G
 Chasing skinny blue jean girls across the building site

 D                                       C                  G
 Checking out the dance floor while the band played hold me tight

 D                                 C               A
 See the blonde one over there - I bet she'd be alright

 G            D          A        C  D  Em
 It all comes back like yesterday

            D         C
 It almost seems like yesterday.

            G                D           A
  While I talked he sat and never made a sound

C          G              D    E
  Staring at the glass beside me

 C         G              D             A
  Hey old friend tell me whats on your mind

 C         G                D E  D C
  Silence grows on you like i-vy i-vy

 G         Em         C                G
 Do you remember the church across the sands

         Em    C   F  C/E
 Holy, holy, ho                            

 G             Em                  C             G
  You stood outside and planned to travel to the lands

             Em       C
 Where the pilgrims go

 D                              C            G
 So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack

 D                                  C              G
 Set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac

 D                               C               A
 Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back

 G        D        A         C  D  Em
  Tell me why you look away

           D      A
 Don't you have a word to say?

                                    G
  He said I don't remember,  don't want to remember

F              G                 A
  In fact I've heard too much already

                               G
  I don't want to think, just leave me here to drink

  F                  G                  A
  Wrapped up in the warmth of New York City

C   G           D          A
 Oh oh, it seems you just don't know

C         G               D    E
 And you just don't understand me

C        G                D           A
 Got no use for the tricks of modern times

C              G                  D E  D C
 They tangle all my thoughts like ivy, ivy.

 G      Em            C                G
  So I left him and I went out to the street

          Em    C   F  C/E
  Lowly, lowly, low

 G          Em                   C            G
  Where the red light girls were coming after me

        Em         C
  Forty dollar show
 
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  All across the city the lights were coming on

  D                              C             G
  The hotel lift softly hummed a Cole Porter song

  D                     C                  A
  If I looked for him I knew he would be gone

 G          D        A         C  D  Em
  A picture-card of yesterday

           D       C
  A photograph of yesterday

C         G          D              A
 And far off in a deserted part of town

C            G             D  E
 The shadows like a silent army

C        G                D                 A
 Flooded out the rooms in pools of blue and brown
 
C              G                 D E  D C  D E
 And stuck to all the walls like ivy, ivy, ivy.


Instrumental (roughly) :

Fmaj7 G A   Fmaj7 G A   Fmaj7 G A   Fmaj7 G A  

C G D A  C G D E   C G D A  C G D E  (as last part of song)

Rather orchestral part - not sure about the chords! 

C G D A  C G D E   C G D A  C G D E  (as last part of song)
 
D E D C repeat a few times ---> D E