Meet On The Ledge by Fairport Convention - guitar chords, guitar tabs and lyrics

	G	D	G	D	A
	Or finding	better words.	These ideas	never lasted	long.

F#m* A Em* A F#m Em Em7

The way is up along the road. The air is growing thin.

	G	D	G	D	A
	Too many	friends who tried were	blown off this	mountain	with the wind.

	A	Em
	Meet on the ledge; we're gonna	meet on the ledge.

	G	D
	When the time is	up I'm gonna see all my friends.

	A	Em
	Meet on the ledge; we're gonna	meet on the ledge.

	G	D
	If you really	mean it, it all comes round again.

A F#m* A Em* A F#m Em Em7

Now I see I'm all alone. But that's the only way to be.

	G	D	G	D	A
	You'll have your	chance again;	then you can	do the work for	me.

Meet on...etc.

NB: the F#m and Em marked with a '*' - I'm almost sure that I used to

play a Bm for these two chords, but the F#m and Em sound better just

now. (I have a guitar with me, but not the record). You might like to

stick Bm in there if it sounds better for you.

	--
	Martin McCarthy - mmc@ehabitat.demon.co.uk

From rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature Mon Jun 27 09:04:27 1994

From: abostick@netcom.com (Alan L. Bostick)

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 02:58:48 GMT

Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature

Subject: Re: CRD: MEET ON THE LEDGE

Martin McCarthy (mmc@ehabitat.demon.co.uk) posts chords to Fairport

Convention's "Meet on the Ledge." He says,

>NB: the F#m and Em marked with a '*' - I'm almost sure that I used to

>play a Bm for these two chords, but the F#m and Em sound better just

>now. (I have a guitar with me, but not the record). You might like to

>stick Bm in there if it sounds better for you.

If you are playing the song in A, the marked chords should indeed be Bm.

Actually, though, on the album, the song is played in B-flat.

(Someone's playing a piano on the track, so it's really not too

surprising.)

Here are the chords of the song, in Bb:

MEET ON THE LEDGE - Fairport Convention

(Richard Thompson, Island Music (BMI))

	Bb	Cm	Bb	Cm	Bb	Gm	Fm	Fm7
	We	used to say	that,	come the day,	we'd	all be making	son	gs

	Ab	Eb	Ab	Eb	Bb
	Or finding	better words.	These ideas	never lasted	long.

	Cm	Bb	Cm	Bb	Gm	Fm	Fm7
The	way is up	a	long the road.	The	air is growing	thi	n.

	Ab	Eb	Bb	Eb	Bb
	Too many	friends who tried	blown off this	mountain with the	wind.

(Short bridge in F major, with guitar figure in descending parallel sixths)

	Bb	Fm
	Meet on the ledge; we're gonna	meet on the ledge.

	Ab	Eb
	When the time is	up I'm gonna see all my friends.

	Bb	Fm
	Meet on the ledge; we're gonna	meet on the ledge.

	Ab	Eb
	If you really	mean it, it all comes round again.

	Bb	Cm	Bb	Cm	Bb	Gm	Fm	Fm7
		Now I see	I'm	all alone.	But that's the	only way to	be.

	Ab	Eb	Ab	Eb	Bb
	You'll have your	chance again;	then you can	do the work for	me.

Meet on...etc.

Between the chorus and the next verse is a guitar figure backed by the

piano playing in F:

   |-----13-----------11----------10---------8|
   |------------------------------------------|
   |12/14--------10/12--------8/10--------6/8-|
   |------------------------------------------|
   |------------------------------------------|
   |------------------------------------------|

Which resolves to Bb at the start of the verse.

-- Alan Bostick

abostick@netcom.com

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