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Song title:    Life's A Long Song
Album:         EP only

Words and Music by Ian Anderson and Martin Barre
Copyright © 1971 Island Records Limited
Published by Chrysalis Music Publishing Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
This was the first song I ever worked out how to play, aged 14. I was never 
a JT fan, but I quite liked this song. Fortunately, it wasn't too difficult 
or I would probably have given up there and then.


VERSE:
A                      G            A                     G
  When you're falling awake and you take stock of the new   day
A                         G            A                         G
  And you hear your voice croak as you choke on what you need to   say
C                                 G            D             E
  Well, don't you fret, don't you fear, I will give you good cheer

CHORUS:
A                 G  A                 G  A                 G
Life's a long song.  Life's a long song.  Life's a long song,
       D                           E
If you wait then your plate I will fill.


VERSE:
As the verses unfold and your soul suffers the long day,
And the twelve o'clock gloom spins the room, you struggle on your way 
Well, don't you sigh, don't you cry, lick the dust from your eye


CHORUS:
Life's a long song. Life's a long song. Life's a long song 
We will meet in the sweet light of dawn


VERSE:
As the Baker Street train spills your pain all over your new dress
And the symphony sounds underground put you under duress
Well don't you squeal as the heel grinds you under the wheels


CHORUS:
Life's a long song.  Life's a long song. Life's a long song
But the tune ends too soon for us all


[Instrumental over verse chords]
 
        D                         E
But the tune ends too soon for us all         


CHORDS:
A    x02220 or 577655
G    320033 or 355433
E    022100
D    xx0232 or x57775