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Night of the 4th of May
(Al Stewart)
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(archivist's note: in this transcription, the spacing of the chords for each line is missing).

Hi,
I did promise this a little while ago, so here it is....

Dm G F C Dm
Ah the days they flew by and the leaves they fell from the trees
F C Bb F Gm
And many times you came around and many times you slept with me
F C Bb F Gm
And every time that we made love you wrote it down in your diary
D
Lady of ladies
Gm F Gm F Eb D
But I would always say to you don't ask about tomorrow
Gm F Gm F Eb D
Give what you have take what you need, your time is only now
Eb D
Don't try to tie me down to promises
Cm D
Live for today, today is all there is
Gm Eb D Gm
And freedom seems to be everything to me

Dm G F C Dm
I took you to a party on the night of the fourth of May
F C Bb F Gm
And a strange and growing restlessness had hung in the air all day
F C Bb F Gm
The need to try and tear down and destroy all that we made
D
Lady of ladies
Gm F Gm F Eb D
You whispered in my ear and asked me if i fancied her
Gm F Gm F Eb D
you told me that he'd phoned you when I was in America
Eb D
daring each other just to say okay
Cm D
swap for tonight didn't i always say
Gm Cm D Gm
that freedom seemed to be everything to me
Cm D Gm
And she came and she sat down beside me
Cm D Gm
and you found an excuse to go downstairs
Cm D Eb D
and we talked and made the kind of conversation that you do
Cm D Gm
and later on she said my last train has gone
Cm D Gm
oh I wonder if you would take me home
Cm D
and i found you in the hallway
Gm D
and told you that was all that i would do
Eb D
just run her home and i'm through
Cm D
oh i thought that you knew
Gm Bb F Eb
but i must confess, i laid my hand on her breast
Gm F Eb
and it seemed so hard to pull it away
Gm Bb F Eb
her hand touched my hand and her eyes were offering the rest
Gm F Eb
if it wasn't for you oh i would have stayed
Gm F Gm F Gm
but i came back home through the morning to find you lying awake
Gm F Gm D
and i knew all at once what you'd done and i heard myself say
Gm ( Strum slowly)
why did you have to sleep with him

anyone else wouldn't have mattered half as much as him

The rest of the song is the same as the first section so you should
be able to work out the rest pretty easily. Hopefully I have not
got some of the chords wrong ar put the wrong chord sequence to the
wrong line..Okay, I think you'll get the drift if you play it.
I will sit down on the guitar and verify the above and if i've made
an error i will correct it tomorrow.

Thank you ...Paul
Paul O'Connor (zzaappppaa@hotmail.com)