Lightfoot Gordon - Affair On Eighty Avenue guitar tab

Affair on Eighty Avenue

words and music: Gordon Lightfoot

artist: Gordon Lightfoot

Em D Am Bm C D

The perfume that she wore was from some little store on the down side of

town.

Em D Am Bm C D

But it lingered on long after she’d gone, I remember it well.

G D C D

And our fingers entwined like ribbons of light,

G Em Am F D

And we came through a doorway somewhere in the night.

Her long flowing hair came softly undone in a pile all around.

And she brushed it down as I stood by her side in the warmth of her love.

And she showed me her treasures of paper and tin,

And we played a game only she could win.

And she told me a riddle I’ll never forget

And left with the answer I’ve never found yet.

“How long,” said she, “Can a moment like this belong to someone?”

“What’s wrong, what is right? For to live or to die,”

“We all must be born.”

So, if you should ask me what secrets I hide,

I’m only your lover, don’t make me decide!

The perfume she wore was from some little store on the down side of town.

But it lingered on long after she’d gone, I remember it well.

And she showed me her treasures of paper and tin,

And we played a game only she could win.

ANd our fingers entwined like ribbons of light

And we came through a doorway somewhere in the night.