When An Old Cricketer

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                   
On a dusty pitch, with two pounds
Em      C                      Dm
 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       
If maybe you're catching a 
           C                      
fleeting glimpse, of a twelfth man 
Dm
at silly mid-on.
    C                       Fmaj7 
And it could be Geoff, and it 
                C                  
could be John,
      G

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        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