Harper Roy - When An Old Cricketer guitar tab

[Song: Roy Harper "When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease"]

[Transcription by Gordon Walker ]

When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease (Harper)

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When the day is done, and the ball has spun

C Fmaj7

In the umpire's pocket away,

C Dm

And all remains, in the groundsman's pains,

C Fmaj7

For the rest of time and a day.

C G

There'll be one mad dog and his master, pushing for 4 with the spin.

C Em C Dm

On a dusty pitch, with two pounds six, of willowwood in the sun.

C Fmaj7 C G

When an old cricketer leaves the crease, you never know whether he's gone,

C Fmaj7 C Dm

If maybe you're catching a fleeting glimpse, of a twelfth man at silly mid-on.

C Fmaj7 C G

And it could be Geoff, and it could be John,

C Fmaj7

With a new ball sting in his tail.

C Dm

And it could be me, and it could be thee,

C Fmaj7

And it could be the sting in the ale.........sting in the ale.

C G Fmaj7

Solo on verse

Verse 2 (chords as above - sorry don't have the words to hand)

Chorus (as above)

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Chord note for for beginners:

All chords played as normally given in any book in standard tuning in 1st

position (ie at the bottom of the neck - which is physically the top if you're

holding the neck upwards!). Note that Roy plays G with 4 fingers - fingering

D on the B string, which makes the chord sound nicer (you dont get the jump

from B up to G for the top two strings - if any notes are to be missed

out of a chord, better to miss the 3rd(B) than the 5th(D) in general)

i.e.:

............playing D instead of open B

:

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and for complete beginners the rest of the chords:

Fmaj7 C Dm Em

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