Rogers Stan

Rogers Stan - Forty-five Year guitar tab

From: Barrie McCombs

FORTY-FIVE YEARS Time: 2/2 (sync) Tenor: Bb Bass: Bb

- Stan Rogers, 1976, on: Fogarty's Cove

INTRO: 1, 2m, 5, 1

1 *

Where the earth shows it's bones of wind-broken stone

5 *

And the sea and the sky are one

2m 4

I'm caught out of time, my blood sings with wine

5 *

And I'm running naked in the sun

1 *

There's God in the trees, I'm weak in the knees

5 *

And the sky is a painful blue

2m 4 5 1 ( 4, 1, 5 )

I'd like to look around, but Honey, all I see is you

1 *

The summer city lights will soften the night

5 *

Till you'd think that the air is clear

2m 4

And I'm sitting with friends where forty-five cents

5 *

Will buy another glass of beer

1 *

He's got something to say, but I'm so far away

5 *

That I don't know who I'm talking to

2m 4 5 1

Cause you just walked in the door, and Honey, all I see is you

CHORUS (after verses 2 and 3):

4 *

And I just want to hold you closer

1 4 1

Than I've ever held any-one be-fore

4 1

You say you've been twice a wife and you're through with life

2m 5

Ah but Honey, what the hell's it for

4 *

After twenty-three years you'd think I could find

1 4 1

A way to let you know some-how

2m 2m/1 5 1 (*)

That I want to see your smiling face forty-five years from now

CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO

NOTES:

- Strum: clawhammer, 52, 43, B2, 45 or B, 43, B2, 43

FORTY-FIVE YEARS PAGE TWO

1 *

So a-lone in the lights on stage every night

5 *

I've been reaching out to find a friend

2m 4

Who knows all the words, sings so she's heard

5 *

And knows how all the stories end

1 *

Maybe after the show she'll ask me to go

5 *

Home with her for a drink or two

2m 4 5 1

Now her smile lights her eyes, but Honey all I see is you

CHORUS:

4 *

And I just want to hold you closer

1 4 1

Than I've ever held any-one be-fore

4 1

You say you've been twice a wife and you're through with life

2m 5

Ah but Honey, what the hell's it for

4 *

After twenty-three years you'd think I could find

1 4 1

A way to let you know some-how

2m 2m/1 5 1 (*)

That I want to see your smiling face forty-five years from now

ENDING: REPEAT CHORUS

SYMBOLS:

- Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord

- Period (.) = 1/8 note rest at start of a measure

- Underline(_) = sustain note into next measure

CHORDS (Number System):

- Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

- Key of C: C D E F G A B

- Detailed description: /pub/guitar/other_stuff/numbering_system.txt

- Submitted by: Barrie McCombs (bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca)

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