David Mcwilliams - The Days Of Pearly Spencer guitar tab

Notes: 1) the Grass Roots covered it on one of their albums; 2) according

to net.correspondent Maurizio Codogno, it was a hit in Italy (as _Il Volto

Della Vita_) for Caterina Caselli; 3) the filtered vocal on the chorus - not

to mention the subject matter - predated _Aqualung_ by about three years; 4)

Marc Almond's remake was a big hit in the UK in 1992; his version features

an extra verse:

A tenement, a dirty street

Remember worn and shoeless feet

Remember how you stood to beat

The way your life had gone

So Pearly don't you shed more tears

For those best forgotten years

Those tenements are memories

Of where you've risen from

"Days of Pearly Spencer"

(David McWilliams)

Intro:

Am (strings alone first two bars; w/arpeggiated guitar next two

bars; w/bass and drums next two bars and into verse)

Verse 1:

Am

A tenement, a dirty street

Em

Walked and worn by shoeless feet

Am

In silence long and so complete

C G

Watched by a shivering sun

Old eyes in a small child's face

Watching as the shadows race

Through walls and cracks that leave no trace

And daylight's brightness shun

Chorus (w/filtered vocal):

Dm Em Am

The days of Pearly Spencer

Dm Em Am

Ahh..ahh the race is almost run

Verse 2:

Nose pressed hard on frosted glass

Gazing as the swollen mass

On concrete fields where grows no grass

Stumbles blindly on

Iron trees smother the air

But, withering, they stand and stare

Through eyes that neither know nor care

Where the grass has gone

[repeat chorus]

Verse 3:

Pearly, where's your milk-white skin

What's that stubble on your chin

It's buried in the rotgut gin

You've played and lost, not won

You played a house that can't be beat

Now look, your head's bowed in defeat

You walked too far along the street

Where only rats can run

[repeat chorus; fade 2nd time]

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers