Kristofferson Kris - Silver guitar tab

Hi greg & fellow COWPIE subscribers.

I cannot remember when or whom but someone requested songs by Kris

Kristofferson. Back in my earlier years I had learned a pile from about

three different albums. I took some time this Easter weekend & typed just 7

of them in to the computer (I'm not that fast :))

Silver (The Hunger)

Kris Kristofferson

>From the LP.. Who's To bless & who's to Blame

A

Silver was a rambler with a wicked reputation

E D A

Music was his magic & his madness rolled in one

Said he'd charmed the fairest hearts of this world's fairest maidens

E D A

Slick as silver mercury & slippery as the sun

Winding like a river thru the thirsty world of strangers

E E A

Carvin out a legend in a dream forsaken land

Silver took his pleasures just as freely as he gave them

E D A

Hungry eyes wern't quick enough for Silver's flashin' hand

D A

Then once upon escaping from the world of silk & shadows

Bm F#m

Sudden growin sicker off the secrets and the shame

Bm D E

He stumbled on to something green & beckoned like a candle

A A

Never lookin back he surrendered to the flame

G

Cho.. Because hunger is the surface of a darkened pool of sadness

D G

Silver's a reflection of a people deep below

And mystery & magic are the Holy Faults of madness

D Em A

Sleepin as the exctassy slumbers in your soul

Silver moved instinctively within her soft defences

Soon unfolding mysteries he'd never seen before

Naked need & ancient need she slipped inside his senses

Silver took it as easy as the closin' of a door

Soon he'd touch the secret fish he'd hidden with her sorrow

Darken than her raven hair & deeper than her eyes

There to drive to lead her thru the sunlight from the shadows

Following the line between her laughter & her lies

But Silver left his magic with a legend he'd abandoned

Love had stripped him naked of illusions & it's charm

And one long nighter changed his mind to be kinder to the stranger

Morning found him movin' in the golden stranger's arms

Cho..

Silver stared in silence at the tangled scene before him

Time was burning frozen in the ocean of his eyes

Sadly turnin' backward to the world that he'd forsaken

He donned the shinging mantle of deceptioned & disguise

Slowly with the patience born of silent desperation

Silver worked his way into the darkness of his mind

Weavin' thru her consience like a chance she might have taken

Sadder than the shadows of a love she'll never find

And Silver's spell was stronger than the softly smiling stranger

Who's star was burning smaller in the naked light of day

Silver took her hand again a wiser man but sadder

Ready for the stranger who'd steal her love away

Cho..

mmm mmm mmm

Dan Nicholas

Arnprior, On., Canada

nicholdb@istar.ca

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