Eyolf Østrem

Album version

G7

Am
  You say you love me

And you're thinkin' of me,
                          G(7)
But you know you could be wrong.
Am
  You say you told me

That you wanna hold me,
                             G(7)
But you know you're not that strong.
Bm
I just can't do what I done before,
Am
I just can't beg you any more.
          G(7)
I'm gonna let you pass
    D7
And I'll go last.
     G         Bm/f#     C/e     G

C                  F/c                  C
Shadows are falling and I been here all day
                    F/c                    C
It's too hot to sleep and time is running away
G            G/f      C/e         C
Feel like my soul has turned into steel
Am                 C/g            F          C
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
G                G/f            C/e     C
There's not even room enough to be anywhere
Am       C/g      F                     C
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

Well my sense of humanity is going down the drain

Album version

E
They sat together in the park
Emaj7
As the evening sky grew dark,
E7
She looked at him and he felt a spark
A                     A'
tingle to his bones.
Am
'Twas then he felt alone
    E           B(ii)     A        A'
and wished that he'd gone straight
    E                 B11             B11' E
And watched out for a simple twist of      fate.

They walked along by the old canal
A little confused, I remember well
And stopped into a strange hotel
with a neon burnin' bright.
He felt the heat of the night
hit him like a freight train

(Laws F5)
Recorded by The Blue Sky Boys (Earl and Bill Bolick) Charlotte, Jun 16, 1936 and released on the posthumous Vol. 4 of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Music

A rather slow version, relishing in the sweet clashes resulting from the “hang” of the melody line (see pdf file). 

Shot Of Love sessions 11 Apr. 1981 (Biograph)

G Bm Em C G Bm/f# D C

G                               Bm
She was the rose of Sharon from paradise lost
         Em                           C
From the city of seven hills near the place of the cross.
      G                 Bm/f#        Em         D           C
I was playing a show in Miami in the theater of divine comedy.

Told about Jesus, told about the rain,
She told me about the jungle where her brothers were slain
By the man who invented iron and disappeared so mysteriously. *)

Album Version

      A+      Dm
I'm a fool to want you
      D7-9    Gm       Gm7 Gm6
I'm a fool to want you
          Bb/d  F6/c            Bm7-5
To want a love    that can't be true
              Bb7              A
A love that's there for others too

I'm a fool to hold you
Such a fool to hold you
To seek a kiss not mine alone
           Dm/a     A7-9      Dm
To share a kiss the devil has known

Gm  Gmmaj7 Gm7   Gm6

A . C#7 . | D . D#o . |
A . D#o . | Bm7 . E7 E+
                    

A            Em7-5/a A
 Full moon and empty arms
            A               Bm9   E7-9
The moon is there for us to share
              A
But where are you?
             C#7      F#m
A night like this
              E   A      A+
could weave a memory
          F#m   B7
And every kiss
              Bm        E    E7+
could start a dream for two
A            Em7-5/a A
Full moon and empty arms
              A             Bm9   E7-9
Tonight, I'll use the magic moon
          A

  D              Em
O little town of Bethlehem
    D/a      A        D
How still we see thee lie
 D    D9/c B7       Em7
Above thy  deep and dreamless sleep
    D/a    Asus4 A  D
The silent stars go by

    D      Em6  Fdim    F#7
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
   Bm      G   F#7 
in everlasting Light

    D                  G6      G#dim
The hopes and fears of all the years
    D/a    A7/6   D
Are met in thee tonight

Eb

    Eb            Ab