Prefab Sprout - The Golden Calf Chords & Tabs

 

The Golden Calf Chords & Tabs

Prefab Sprout Chords & Tabs

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The Golden Calf Chords

   
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                The Golden Calf - Prefab Sprout
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

Prefab Sprout 
The Golden Calf (1988) 
(McAloon)

From: "From Langley Park to Memphis"


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CHORDS
 
F#7sus4  2-4-4-4-0-0
Dmaj7    x-x-0-2-2-2
Dmaj7/9  x-x-0-2-2-0
A/G      3-x-2-2-x-x

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INTRO
| F#7sus4 | % | Dmaj7 | % | 
| F#7sus4 | % | Dmaj7 | % | 
| A | % | % | A A/G |

A                              A
Once upon a time I stalked the streets on raining evenings
         Dmaj7/9                        A    A/G
When the distant sea blended with the sky
     A                              A
Past Coliseums filled with brass on pavements carved from toasted glass
  Dmaj7/9                        A    
I carried in my heart a word or two

     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

A                             A
I'd resort to sleepwalking to catch the mood that fills the sails
     Dmaj7/9                             A    A/G
With harvest nets and tides don't ever bring
    A                              Dmaj7/9
But every night was Halloween, and every friend fell in between
    Dmaj7/9                        A  
And how capricious nature ruled my mind

     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
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/p/prefab_sprout/the_golden_calf_crd.html ]
INTERLUDE 1
| Dsus2 | % | C#m | % |
| Dsus2 | % | C#m | A/G |

A                              A
Once upon a time I stalked the streets on raining evenings
         Dmaj7/9                        A    A/G
When the distant sea blended with the sky
   A                                Dmaj7/9
My mouth was full of cigarettes, my hair is full of long-term bets
    Dmaj7/9                            A    A/G
But you would always make me see the day  


     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

INTERLUDE 2
| 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?

SOLO
| A | % | % | % |
| Dmaj7/9 | % | A | % |

     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, play, play, play ...

     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

(fade over last chorus)