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

When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease (Harper)
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When the day is done, and the ball has spun
CC Piano Chord 
                   Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 

In the umpire's pocket away,
CC Piano Chord 
                DmDm Piano Chord 

And all remains, in the groundsman's pains,
CC Piano Chord 
                    Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 

For the rest of time and a day.
CC Piano Chord 
                       GG Piano Chord 

There'll be one mad dog and his master, pushing for 4 with the spin.
CC Piano Chord 
                   EmEm Piano Chord 
      CC Piano Chord 
                      DmDm Piano Chord 

On a dusty pitch, with two pounds six, of willowwood in the sun.
CC Piano Chord 
                Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 
              CC Piano Chord 
                 GG Piano Chord 


When an old cricketer leaves the crease, you never know whether he's gone,
CC Piano Chord 
             Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 
                  CC Piano Chord 
                      DmDm Piano Chord 

If maybe you're catching a fleeting glimpse, of a twelfth man at silly mid-on.
CC Piano Chord 
                       Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 
                 CC Piano Chord 
                        GG Piano Chord 

And it could be Geoff, and it could be John,
CC Piano Chord 
                     Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 

With a new ball sting in his tail.
CC Piano Chord 
                     DmDm Piano Chord 

And it could be me, and it could be thee,
CC Piano Chord 
                   Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 

And it could be the sting in the ale.........sting in the ale.
CC Piano Chord 
                         GG Piano Chord 
           Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 


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:

Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 
            CC Piano Chord 
             DmDm Piano Chord 
             EmEm Piano Chord 


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