Rogers Stan - Forty-five Years guitar tab

Just so happens I've got that one on the machine.... Let's see now...

Oh yeah, a caveat, since I actually play mandolin I usually simpify guitar

chords, not knowing how to translate them there sus's and things... So this

might not be strictly chapter and verse, but it works. Enjoy.

Forty-Five Years (guitar - capo 3rd fret) - By Stan Rogers

G

Where the Earth show it bones of wind broken stone

D/F#

and the sea and the sky are one

Am C

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

D/F#

and I'm running naked in the sun

G

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

D/F#

and the sky is a painful blue

Am C D/F# G

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

CHORUS

Intro to chorus is G-C-G-D/F#

C G C G

And I just want to hold you closer than I've ever held anyone before

C G

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

Am Am/G D/F#

Ah but Honey what the hell's it for

C G

After twenty-three years you'ld think I could find a way

C G

to let you know somehow

Am Am/G D/F# G

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

G

The summer city lights will soften the night

D

'Til you'd think that the air is clear

Am C

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

D

Will buy another glass of beer

G

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

D

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

Am C D G

'Cause you just walked in the door, and Honey, All I see is you.

To Chorus

G

So alone in the lights on stage every night

D/F#

I've been reaching out to find a friend

Am C

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

D/F#

And knows how all the stories end

G

Maybe after the show she'1l ask me to go

D/F#

Home with her for a drink or two

Am C D/F# G

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

Repeat Chorus twice