Madame George Chords

*from 'Astral Weeks' (1968)
 
 
[Intro]
 
G  C  D (x2)
 
 
[Verse 1]
 
        G             C
Down on Cyprus Avenue,
       D                         G         C
With a childlike vision, leaping into view.
          D               G
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled show;
C         D               G      C
 Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George.
 
D                  G
 Marching with the soldier boy behind;
C          D               G
 He's much older now, with hat on, drinking wine.
C         D                  G
 And that smell of sweet per-fume comes drifting through,
C    D                   G        C  D
 The cool night air like Shalimar.
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
                    G                    C
And outside they're making all the stops,
    D                           G
The kids out in the street, col-lecting bottle tops.
C         D              G
 Gone for cigarettes and matches in the shops;
C      D             G      C  D
 Happy taken, Madame George.
C                G
 That's when you fall, woah, that's when you fall,
Yeah, that's when you fall.
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
         G
When you fall into a trance,
C        D          G
 Sitting on a sofa, playing games of chance.
C          D               G
 With your folded arms and history books, you glance;
C         D              G      C  D
 Into the eyes of Madame George.
 
 
[Verse 4]
 
        G
And you think you found the bag;
C               D               G
 You're getting weaker and your knees begin to sag.
C       D               G
 In the corner, playing dominoes, in drag;
C            D            G      C  D
 The one and only, Madame George.
 
[Verse 5]
 
                           G
And then from outside, the frosty window raps,
C          D
 She jumps up and says;
                   G
Lord have mercy, I think that it's the cops.
C      D                 G                   C
 And i-mmediately, drops everything she gots,
D              G            C  D
 Down into the street below.
 
 
[Verse 6]
 
        G
And you know you gotta go,
C        D                  G
 On that train from Dublin, up to Sandy Row.
C         D              G
 Throwing pennies at the bridges down below.
C        D                      G    C
 And the rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
         D             G
Say good-bye to Madame George.
C         D              G
 Dry your eye for Madame George,
C       D              G      C  D
 Wonder why for Madame George.
 
 
[Verse 7]
 
           G
And as you leave, the room is filled with music;
C                 D              G
 Laughing, music, dancing music, all around the room.
C                   D
 And all the little boys come around,
          G               C  D   G    C  D
Walking a-way from it all,    so cold.
 
                G
And as you're a-bout to leave,
C          D                              G
 She jumps up and says; hey love, you for-got your gloves.
C        D
 And the love that loves, the love that loves, the love that loves,
   G                    C              D
To love, the love, that loves to love.
 
 
[Coda]
 
                         G      C         D              G
To say goodbye to Madame George, dry your eye for Madame George.
C       D              G      C         D               G
 Wonder why for Madame George, dry your eyes for Madame George.
 
C         D                                    G
 Say good-bye in the wind and the rain, on the back street,
C                          D
 In the backstreet, in the back street.
                                   G
Say goodbye, say goodbye to Madame George.
C                          D                   G
 In the backstreet, in the back street, in the back street.
 
C                D            G
 Down home, down home, in the back street, gotta go;
C         D                  G
 Say good-bye, goodbye, good-bye.
C         D                                       G
 Dry your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye.
 
C         D             G
 Say good-bye to Madame George,
C        D                           G
 And the loves to love, to love, the love.
C         D                           G
 Say good-bye, goodbye, goodbye, good-bye,
C     D  G
 Ooh...   mmm...
 
C         D                                        G
 Say good-bye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye to Madame George.
C         D              G      C       D              G
 Dry your eye for Madame George, wonder why for Madame George.
C              D                                       G
 The love's to love, the love's to love, the love's to love.
C         D         G   C
 Say good-bye, good-bye.
D           G                 C          D          G
 Get on the train, get on the train, the train, the train.
C            D                  G
 This is the train, this is the train.
C               D         G
 Woah, say good-bye, good-bye.
C           D                 G
 Get on the train, get on the train...
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