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Lady Eleanor

Lindisfarne
Version1
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}
{section: Intro}
alternating
{section: Verse 1}
When in walked with the Lady Eleanor.
{section: Verse 2}
She tied my eyes with a ribbon of a silken ghostly thread,
I gazed with troubled vision on an old four-poster bed
Where Eleanor had risen to kiss the neck below my head
And bid me come along with her to the land of the dancing dead,
{section: Chorus}
[ a bit of tab (bass-line):
{sot}e--------|--------|
B--------|--------|
G--------|--------|
D----2---|----9---|
A---2-2--|---9-9--|
E0-----0-|7-----7-|{eot}
slide
tab ends]
{section: Verse 3}
She gazed with a love and beauty, like a mother to a son,
Like live and die, and see and be, and all rolled into one,
Then all at once I heard some music playing in my bones,
The same old song I'd heard for years, reminding me of home,
Chorus, [tab].
{section: Verse 4}
Then creeping on towards me with their lips with tongues of fire
A host of golden demons screaming "Lust!" and "Base desire!"
And when it seemed for certain that their screams could get no higher
I heard a voice above the rest, screaming "You're a liar!"
But it's alright, Lady Eleanor,
Alright, Lady Eleanor,
I'm alright here in your arms....
I suspect those last chords are something entirely different, but can't
remember much except they _are_ simple chords.
If anyone can supply the missing words or correct any others I have wrong,
PLEASE Email me. It's an old favourite, and I'd like to get it right!
If memory serves me, Alan Hull wrote it.
p.s. I love the mandolin work, too, but the tab for that would be a bit
beyond me...

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Arrangement source for Lady Eleanor by Lindisfarne

{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}
 [Bm]
 [Em] bar 7

 [G]
 [E] bar 3

 [A]
 [E] bar 5

{section: Intro}
alternating
 [Em]
 [Bm]

{section: Verse 1}
N[Em]asty fey magicians sit in lo[Bm]tus on the floor

B[Em]elly-dancing beauties and their po[Bm]wer-laden swords

H[Em]ide my                didn't th[Bm]ink it could be much more

 [G]             [A]
 [Bm]   .   .   .  <- fade
When in walked         with the Lady Eleanor.

{section: Verse 2}
She tied my eyes with a ribbon of a silken ghostly thread,
I gazed with troubled vision on an old four-poster bed
Where Eleanor had risen to kiss the neck below my head
And bid me come along with her to the land of the dancing dead,

{section: Chorus}
B[G]ut it'[A]s al - right, Lad[Bm]y Eleanor,

A[G]l - ri[A]ght, Lady Eleanor[Bm],

I[G]'m alri[A]ght where I am.[E]     [Esus4]             [E]                 [Esus4]

[ a bit of tab (bass-line):

{sot}e--------|--------|
B--------|--------|
G--------|--------|
D----2---|----9---|
A---2-2--|---9-9--|
E0-----0-|7-----7-|{eot}
       slide
tab ends]

{section: Verse 3}
She gazed with a love and beauty, like a mother to a son,
Like live and die, and see and be, and all rolled into one,
Then all at once I heard some music playing in my bones,
The same old song I'd heard for years, reminding me of home,

Chorus, [tab].

{section: Verse 4}
Then creeping on towards me with their lips with tongues of fire
A host of golden demons screaming "Lust!" and "Base desire!"
And when it seemed for certain that their screams could get no higher
I heard a voice above the rest, screaming "You're a liar!"

But it's alright, Lady Eleanor,
Alright, Lady Eleanor,

 [G]
 [A]                 [
 [E]
 [Bm]]  <- ???
I'm alright here in your arms....

I suspect those last chords are something entirely different, but can't
remember much except they _are_ simple chords.
If anyone can supply the missing words or correct any others I have wrong,
PLEASE Email me. It's an old favourite, and I'd like to get it right!
If memory serves me, Alan Hull wrote it.
p.s. I love the mandolin work, too, but the tab for that would be a bit
beyond me...

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