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Song title:       Gemini Child
Original Album:   Odd Ditties
Other Album:      Shooting At The Moon (re-issue bonus track)

Words and Music by Kevin Ayers
Copyright © 1970 Blackhill Music Limited
Published by Blackhill Music Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
This was transcribed from the version on Odd Ditties. If you have the BBC
Sessions 1970 version, you'll need to slap a capo on 2. If you do,
chords and tab are relative to capo. Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:

[play: Guitar Figure 1]

Guitar Figure 1

|---------5---------------5------|---------5---------------5------|
|-----3-------3-------3-------3--|-----3-------3-------3-------3--|
|-4---------------4--------------|-3---------------3--------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


|-------2/3---2-------3-----6/7--|-----10------4---5-------3------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-2-----2/3---2-------4-----6/7--|-----10------5---6-------4------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


[then play:]

  D                  Em7           D
|-2-----2-2---2---2-p-0---0-0-0--|-2-----2-2---2---2-----2-2---2--|
|-3-----3-3---3---3---3---3-3-3--|-3-----3-3---3---3-----3-3---3--|
|-2-----2-2---2---2-p-0---0-0-0--|-2-----2-2---2---2-----2-2---2--|
|-0-----0-0---0---0---0---0-0-0--|-0-----0-0---0---0-----0-0---0--|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

VERSE:
Chords:
G   320033 or 355433    Cmaj9   030030
Gm  355333              E       022100
D   x00232

G                           Gm
Spent an awful lot of time, making tunes and making rhymes
     D                 Cmaj9  D
From things that other people do, yeah
G                                   Gm
From this heap of words and rhyme I never really gave much time 
   D         Cmaj9    D
To something just for you, yeah


CHORUS:
Chords:
A x02220 or 577655    Bb xx0331 or 113331
E 022100              D  xx0232
G 320033

A                E
Gemini child you know I love you,
    G                      A
But I don't really have to tell you.
           Bb                    D
'Cause you know damn well that I do


VERSE:
Chords:
G   320033 or 355433    Cmaj9   030030
Gm  355333              E       022100
D   xx0232

G                         Gm
  Anyway it's not so much what I say as
D      Cmaj9  D
What I do for you girl
G                         Gm
  So here's a song that I brought along,
          D      Cmaj9      D
Though it really comes from you, yeah 


CHORUS:
Chords:
A x02220 or 577655    Bb xx0331 or 113331
E 022100              D  xx0232
G 320033

A                E
Gemini child, you make life come alive 
G                        A
Suddenly there's so much living
   Bb                    D
To share with you, and I do


[play Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]


VERSE:
Spent an awful lot of time making tunes and making rhymes
From things that other people do, yeah 
From this heap of words and rhyme I never really gave much time
To something just for you, yeah


[repeat 1st CHORUS]

[repeat 2nd CHORUS]

[repeat 1st CHORUS]