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              Songs Out Of Clay - Al Stewart
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Notated by Adam Woolfe



Intro:  F/E  E  F/E  E  F/E  E  Am


       F                    E
  Oh I know that you are an artist she said

          Am        F            C        E
  For you make your songs out of clay

      F                      E
  You carry the dust on your hands and your knees

      Am          F            C
  You never quite brushed it away

           F                    Dm
  You were trying to chisel a perfect truth

           C                        G
  When the instrument broke in your hand

          Dm               F
  Now you sit alone on the greenhouse roof

            Esus4                 E
  With your shoes full of sand.


          Am                 C
  And the golden rays of the sun

                    G                   F
  Divide in the slanting mists of the rain

      C       E                    Am   ----> next verse
  And Maggie    is on the road again.




Between the 2 choruses at the end the chords are: Am C D Am

The ending is the same as the intro, finishing on E.

The Orange version is recorded a key lower in Abm.

I'm not too sure how to play the intro chord: F/E which is, I think, an F
chord on the top 3 strings at the 8th fret with an extra E bass note added
giving the dissonance. This E was possibly achieved by tuning the 'D string'
to E. Any suggestions welcome of course....