Fairport Convention – Closing Time chords

[Intro]
G   D   G   D

[Verse]
          GSo, we're drinking and we're dancing
GAnd the band is really happening
        EmAnd the Johnny Walker wisdom's running high
       BmAnd my very sweet companion
BmShe's an angel of compassion
      EmShe's rubbing half the world against her thigh
      CEvery drinker every dancer
CLifts a happy face to thank her
        G               B               EmAnd the fiddler fiddles something so sublime

[Verse]
        DAnd the women tear their blouses off
DAnd the men they dance on the polka-dots
         CAnd it's partner found and it's partner lost
CAnd it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
     GIt's closing time
        CAnd the women tear their blouses off
CAnd the men they dance on the polka-dots
         G                      BAnd it's partner found and it's partner lost
         Em                   CAnd it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
     GIt's closing time
DClosing time

[Verse]
            GWell, we're lonely, we're romantic
GSociety's psyched with acid
        EmAnd the Holy Spirit's crying, "Where's the beef?"
        BmAnd the moon is swimming naked
BmAnd the summer night is fragrant
       EmWith a mighty expectation of relief
      CSo we struggle and we stagger
CDown the snakes and up the ladder
       G               B             EmTo the tower where the blessed hours chime

[Verse]
      DAnd I swear it happened just like this
DA sigh, a cry and a hungry kiss
    CThe gates of love they budged an inch
CI can't say much has happened since
    GBut closing time
  CI swear it happened just like this
CA sigh, a cry and a hungry kiss
    G                  BThe gates of love they budged an inch
        Em                 CBut you can't say much has happened since
      GSince closing time
DClosing time

[Bridge]
  EmI loved you for your beauty
EmBut that doesn't make a fool of me
BmYou were in it for your beauty too
      EmAnd I loved you for your body
EmThere's a voice that sounds like god to me
  ADeclaring that your body's really you

[Instrumental]
D  C  G/B  D/A

[Verse]
      CBut I loved you when our love was blessed
CAnd I love you now there's nothing left
    G            B            EmBut sorrow and a sense of overtime
      DAnd I missed you since the place got wrecked
DAnd I just don't care what happens next
CLooks like freedom but it feels like death
CIt's something in between, I guess
     GIt's closing time
DClosing time

[Verse]
          GOh, we're drinking and we're dancing
GYet there's nothing really happening
     EmThis place is dead as heaven on a Saturday night
       BmAnd my very close companion
BmGets me humping, gets me laughing
        EmShe's a hundred but she's wearing something tight
 Em(Tight, tight, tight, tight, tight, tight)
      CAnd I lift my glass to the awful truth
CBut you can't reveal to the ears of youth
  G               B             EmExcept to say, it isn't worth a dime
        DAnd the whole damn place goes crazy twice
DIt's once for the Devil and it's once for the Christ
        CBut the boss don't like those dizzy heights
CWe're busted in the blinding lights
     GIt's closing time
     D              GIt's closing time

[Outro]
G(Closing, drinking, Devil, dancing)
D              GClosing time
D              GClosing time
D              GClosing time