The Gift

	  		 


   
INTRO: 
G D/F# Em  C  G     
D/F# Em  C  D 

 
verse 1 
 
      G                Em 
I was clearing out the attic  
       C                   D 
When I found this battered case  
         B7                    Em 
With its handle broke and that old word ‘folk’  
      A7                D 
Still stencilled on its face  
         B7                 Em 
Now it's cobwebbed and it's dusty  
       A7              D 
But it takes me to the past  
           G              Em 
And it was Nineteen-sixty-nine  
         C                D 
I opened this guitar case last  

 
               C                G 
When they said try your luck in London  
       C         G/B     D 
That's where the rainbow ends  
    C             G 
But I got lost in lonely London  
D            Em 
With so many friends  
      C       G 
I got lost in lonely London  
D7                G     Em  C  D 
Where the rainbow ends 
 

verse 2 
 
                G                 Em 
You should have seen the big man, Alex  
        C            D 
When he sang us up a storm  
       B7                     Em 
He had heart and soul, and he set the goal  
       A7           D 
If you wanted to perform  
      B7              Em 
So, I bought myself a Gibson 
         A7           D 
Just the same as Alex had  
      G                   Em 
And I practised night and day  
        C                D 
Until I drove my parents mad 


              C                G 
And they said try your luck in London  
       C         G/B     D 
That's where the rainbow ends  
    C             G 
But I got lost in lonely London  
D            Em 
With so many friends  
      C              G 
I got lost in lonely London  
D7                G 
Where the rainbow ends 
 

BRIDGE 
 
       Em 
I knew every Seeger ballad  
       D 
I knew every Campbell song  
      Em 
And I sang them right, every day and night 
              A7               D 
Till I'd been on that road too long  
                  Em 
'Cause there were others out there working  
        D 
Singing Choruses galore  
              Am 
But there was only one called Alex  
        D7                      G  D/F# 
We were all just one clone more  

verse 3 
 
     G                 Em 
So I climbed up to the attic  
          C                 D 
With this bent and battered case  
    B7                 Em 
Its handle broke, that old word ‘folk’  
      A7               D 
Still stenciled on its face  
         B7                Em 
Now it's been for too long silent  
         A7              D 
With its memories of the past  
        G               Em 
So it's time it went to someone  
          C               D 
Who could make it sing at last  

 
    C                G 
So, try your luck in London  
       C         G/B     D 
That's where the rainbow ends  
    C                 G 
But don't got lost in lonely London  
D            Em 
With so many friends  
C                 G 
Don't got lost in lonely London  
D7                G  
Where the rainbow ends  


C                G 
Try your luck in London  
       C         G/B     D 
That's where the rainbow ends  
    C                 G 
But don't got lost in lonely London  
D            Em 
With so many friends  
C                 G 
Don't got lost in lonely London  
D7                C 
Where the rainbow ends  
D7                G      C  G 
Where the rainbow ends