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[Song: Roy Harper "When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease"]
 [Transcription by Gordon Walker ]
 When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease (Harper)
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 When the day is done, and the ball has spun
           C                   Fmaj7
 In the umpire's pocket away,
        C                Dm          
 And all remains, in the groundsman's pains, 
     C                    Fmaj7
 For the rest of time and a day.
     C                       G
 There'll be one mad dog and his master, pushing for 4 with the spin.
              C                   Em      C                      Dm
 On a dusty pitch, with two pounds six, of willowwood in the sun.
       C                Fmaj7              C                 G
 
 When an old cricketer leaves the crease, you never know whether he's gone,
         C             Fmaj7                  C                      Dm
 If maybe you're catching a fleeting glimpse, of a twelfth man at silly mid-on.
     C                       Fmaj7                 C                        G
 And it could be Geoff, and it could be John, 
         C                     Fmaj7
 With a new ball sting in his tail.
        C                     Dm
 And it could be me, and it could be thee,
        C                   Fmaj7
 And it could be the sting in the ale.........sting in the ale.
        C                         G           Fmaj7
 
 Solo on verse
 
 Verse 2 (chords as above - sorry don't have the words to hand)
 
 Chorus (as above)
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 Chord note for for beginners:
 All chords played as normally given in any book in standard tuning in 1st 
 position (ie at the bottom of the neck - which is physically the top if you're 
 holding the neck upwards!). Note that Roy plays G with 4 fingers - fingering
 D on the B string, which makes the chord sound nicer (you dont get the jump
 from B up to G for the top two strings - if any notes are to be missed
 out of a chord, better to miss the 3rd(B) than the 5th(D) in general) 
 i.e.:
 
         ............playing D instead of open B
         :
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 and for complete beginners the rest of the chords:
 
    Fmaj7            C             Dm             Em
 
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 |_|_|_2_|_|    |_|_2_|_|_|    |_|_|_2_|_|    |_1_2_|_|_| 
 |_|_3_|_|_|    |_3_|_|_|_|    |_|_|_|_3_|    |_|_|_|_|_| 
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