Fairport Convention - Wizard Of The Worldly Game Chords
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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:25:46 -0500
From: Dann Butterfield
Subject: CRD: 'Wizard of the Worldly Game' by Fairport Convention
Wizard Of The Worldly Game
(Swarbrick/Nicol)
FAIRPORT CONVENTION
From Angel Delight, 1971
Intro:
Dm F Am G
Verse 1:
G C E Am
For seven years I've stood right here
Dm F G
And the flowers grow green by day
G C E Am
All for the yarns that I was told
Dm Bb Dm Am
I spread my arms when they grew cold
Dm F C
And warded off the rain
Chorus:
C G
The bigger the tree, the deeper the root
F C
The grass that is trodden underfoot
Am
Give it time
Dm F C
And it'll surely rise again
Dm F Am G
Verse 2:
I'm rocked by winds and I'm soaked by rains
And I'll bow and sometimes bend
Until I fall and crush the forms
Of a few small friends who stood through storms
And who will rise again
(chorus)
(guitar solo over verse and chorus chords)
Verse 3:
It's laughter? dust, the Derby's just
Redo? it or be done
Wild? to wind and wise to pain
Wizard of the worldly game
Treasoned into trust
(chorus)
(guitar solo over verse and chorus chords to fade)
If anyone knows the real lyrics, especially the third verse,
I would greatly appreciate someone sending them to me.
*** submitted by Hirsch Freeman
*** send comments or corrections to drumbo@geocities.com
Fairport Convention - Wizard Of The Worldly Game Chords :: indexed at Ultimate Guitar.
About artist:
In part, the continuing success of Fairport Convention is due to the annual music festival the band organises. Cropredy Festival has been held every year since 1977 near Cropredy, a village five miles north of Banbury, Oxfordshire and attracts 20,000 fans. Now renamed Fairport's Cropredy Convention, it remains one of the key events in the UK folk festival calendar.
BBC Radio 2's Sold On Song TOP 100 songs as voted for by Radio 2 listeners put their early song "Meet On The Ledge" at Number 17. They had performed "Meet on the Ledge" on the 1969 launch of "From the Roundhouse" (a short-lived BBC-TV youth and arts programme about the London "underground scene"). In 2002 the band was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and in 2006, Liege & Lief was voted the most influential folk album of all time in a public ballot, also run by the BBC.
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