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Song title:       The Golden Calf
Original Album:   From Langley Park To Memphis

Words and Music by Paddy McAloon
Copyright © 1988 Kitchenware Records
Published by Kitchenware Records

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Timing is 4/4.
 

INTRO:
Notes:
Play the F#7sus4 and Dmaj7 as single chords sustained for two measures
(8 beats).

Chords:
F#7sus4  222422
Dmaj7    x57675

[play: | F#7sus4 | % | Dmaj7 | % | 
       | F#7sus4 | % | Dmaj7 | % |]


  A 
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-2---2---4---2---2---4----------|-2---2---4---2---2---4----------|
|-0---0---0---0---0---0----------|-0---0---0---0---0---0----------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

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

                                       G
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-2---2---4---2---2---4-------2--|--------------------------------|
|-0---0---0---0---0---0-------0--|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|-----3b--3b--3b--3b--3b--3b--3b-|

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


VERSE1:

  A 
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-2---2---4---2---2---4----------|-2---2---4---2---2---4----------|
|-0---0---0---0---0---0----------|-0---0---0---0---0---0----------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|
  A
  Once up  -  on      a       time     I       stalked the 

  streets on  rain  - ing     eve  -   nings       when the


  D
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-2---2---4---2---2---4----------|-2---2---4---2---2---4----------|
|-0---0---0---0---0---0----------|-0---0---0---0---0---0----------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|
  Dmaj9
  distant     sea                  blended     with    the


  A                                    G
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-2---2---4---2---2---4-------2--|--------------------------------|
|-0---0---0---0---0---0-------0--|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|-----3b--3b--3b--3b--3b--3b--3b-|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|
  A
  sky                                                      Past


  A 
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-2---2---4---2---2---4----------|-2---2---4---2---2---4----------|
|-0---0---0---0---0---0----------|-0---0---0---0---0---0----------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|
  A
  Co -li   -  se   -  ums          filled with brass   on

  pavements   carved  from         toasted     glass   I


  D
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-2---2---4---2---2---4----------|-2---2---4---2---2---4----------|
|-0---0---0---0---0---0----------|-0---0---0---0---0---0----------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|
  Dmaj9                         A    
  carried     in      my      heart    a           word    or


  A
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-2---2---4---2---2---4-------2--|-----2---2---2---2---2---2---2--|
|-0---0---0---0---0---0-------0--|-----0---0---0---0---0---0---0--|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

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

 two


CHORUS:
Chords:
F#7sus4  222422
Dmaj7    x57675

     F#7sus4
Your dashing horseman all gone away
     Dmaj7
Left you the stable bill to pay
    F#7sus4                              Dmaj7
And now    the golden calf has turned to clay

F#7sus4
All     my feelings dressed in gloves
         Dmaj7
Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love
F#7sus4                               Dmaj7
White and open-necked you would still play


VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1 i.e. rock'n'roll...
If you want to strum the chords, here they are:

Chords:
A      577655
Dmaj9  000670
G5     355xxx

A
I'd resort to sleepwalking to catch the mood that fills the sails
     Dmaj9                             A   | G5 |
With harvest nets and tides don't ever bring
    A                              Dmaj9
But every night was Halloween, and every friend fell in between
    Dmaj9                          A  
And how capricious nature ruled my mind


[repeat CHORUS]


INTERLUDE1:

[play:]

 Dsus2
|-5________________---5-------4--|-----2-------0------------------|
|-5________________---3-------3--|-----2-------2-------3----------|
|-7________________--------------|---------------------2----------|
|-7________________--------------|--------------------------------|
|-5________________--------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

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

 C#m
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|-4____________________________--|--------------------------------|
|-5____________________________--|--------------------------------|
|-6____________________________--|--------------------------------|
|-6____________________________--|--------------------------------|
|-4____________________________--|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

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

 Dsus2
|-5________________---5-------4--|-----2-------0------------------|
|-5________________---3-------3--|-----2-------2-------3----------|
|-7________________--------------|---------------------2----------|
|-7________________--------------|--------------------------------|
|-5________________--------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

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

 C#m                                   G5
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|-4____________________________--|--------------------------------|
|-5____________________________--|--------------------------------|
|-6____________________________--|--------------------------------|
|-6____________________________--|-----5---5---5---5---5---5---5--|
|-4____________________________--|-----5---5---5---5---5---5---5--|
|--------------------------------|-----3---3---3---3---3---3---3--|

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


VERSE3:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1 i.e. rock'n'roll...
If you want to strum the chords, here they are:

Chords:
A      577655
Dmaj9  000670
G5     355xxx

A
Once upon a time I stalked the streets on raining evenings
         Dmaj9                        A  | G5 | 
When the distant sea blended with the sky
   A                                Dmaj9
My mouth was full of cigarettes, my hair  is full of long-term bets
    Dmaj9                            A  | G5 |
But you would always make me see the day  


[repeat CHORUS]


INTERLUDE2:
Chords:
F#7sus4  222422
Dmaj7    x57675

[play: | F#7sus4 | % | Dmaj7 | % | 
       | F#7sus4 | % |]

Dmaj7                              F#7sus4           Dmaj7    
   I sound so different these days,   I barely can believe I'm me
F#7sus4                     Dmaj7    
   If I didn't know better,    I would swear I was someone else
F#7sus4                  Dmaj7    
   Lord I can't believe,    I don't believe I'm me
F#7sus4       Dmaj7    
   But who on earth could I be?


[Instrumental over VERSE chords]

[repeat CHORUS x2 and fade]