Somewhere in England 1915 - Al Stewart

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Chords by Don Anderson.                         

 

 

Capo 3rd fret, playing in key of C but using A chord voicings.

 

Bm7     204432 thumb wrap bottom E

C#7/G#  4x342(0)

 

Intro vamp A – Asus4 & repeat.

 

       Bm7                                           A      Asus4 A

On the platform of an old railway station I enter a dream

       Bm7                                           A        Asus4 A

And a couple is saying goodbye through the noise and the steam

          E                              C#7/G#       F#m

But it’s just Brief Encounter my mind is trying to re-run

       E                                                   A  Asus4 A

And I wait for the poignant finale but the dream has moved on

 

 

       Bm7                                           A      Asus4 A

And the train has turned into a ship that is sailing away

       Bm7                                           A      Asus4 A

And the platform is a beach full of shells under silvery gray

          E                              C#7/G#       F#m

And the girl on the beach is an English Prime Minister’s daughter

       E                                                   A  Asus4 A

And she watches the ship disappear at the edge of the water

        D                                              C#m

And it feels like the pain in her heart will be never ending

      E                            A           Asus4 A

And everyone feels that way in the beginning

 

                  E            D         E        A      D A E

And I’m up in the air looking down at a girl on a bed

           A      E            D          E            A      D A E

And she’s lying asleep on her side with a book at her head

         A            E        D

And it’s someone who left long ago

       E            A    D A E

Was it something I said

       A               E            D

And I hope that she’s reading King Lear

         E              A        Asus4

But it’s Twelfth Night instead

 

*For a solo acoustic close with no instrumental 
repeat 1st line 1st verse and finish on the A chord 
of “dream” as on the Live 2004 recording.