Al Stewart

Intro:

This is alternate arpeggios of the chords 024000 and 034000, picking the
strings 123432 123432 etc and repeat to taste, then into Em.

Intro Solo:

ie
Em+9 Em#5+9
E|-----------|-----------|
B|-----------|-----------|
G|------0----|------0----| repeated
D|----4---4--|----4---4--|
A|--2-------2|--3-------3|
E|0----------|0----------|

Intro solo from Indian Summer live version:

6/8 time

(Em+9 Em#5+9 ) x 2

Em+9 Em#5+9 Em+9

E|--14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14|14h15-12--10h12---7h8p7|----------7|
B|-12-------------------------|-----------------------|----7-8-10-|
G|11--------------------------|-----------------------|-----------|
D|Rake------------------------|-----------------------|-----------|
A|----------------------------|-----------------------|-----------|
E|----------------------------|-----------------------|-----------|

Em#5+9 Em+9 Em#5+9 Em+9

E|7h8-7h8p7------|-----------|--------------------|----------|
B|---------10-8-7|--7-8---7--|----7---------------|----------|
G|---------------|9---------9|7h9---9-7h9p7-------|----------|
D|---------------|-----------|--------------10-9-7|7h9-------|
A|---------------|-----------|--------------------|----------|
E|---------------|-----------|--------------------|----------|

Em#5+9 Em+9 Em#5+9 Em+9 Em#5+9

E|---------------2-5|2h5p2------|-----------|------0---|-----------|
B|-------------5----|-----------|-----------|----------|-----------|
G|---------2-5------|------4-4-4|----2-2-0--|0---------|-----------|
D|-----2-4----------|-----------|----------4|--4-2-----|-----------|
A|-2-3--------------|-----------|-----------|---------2|3s5---2h3p2|
E|------------------|-----------|-----------|----------|-----------|

Em+9 Em#5+9 Em+9 Em#5+9 Em switch to 4/4

E|------|-------------------|--------0--0-2|2s3--5-7-|7---7-7-7-7-5-3|
B|------|-------------------|--------------|---------|----8-8-8-8-7-5|
G|------|-------------------|--2-2s4-------|---------|---------------|
D|------|--------------2-4-5|--------------|---------|---------------|
A|------|------0-2-3-5------|--------------|---------|---------------|
E|------|0-2-3--------------|--------------|---------|---------------|

They crossed over...

E|0-----3-3-3-3-2-0|0-------------|
B|0-----5-5-5-5-3-0|0-------------|
G|-----------------|--------------|
D|-----------------|--------------|
A|-----------------|--------------|
E|-----------------|--------------|

Em D Em
They crossed over the border the hour before dawn,

D Cmaj7
Moving in lines through the day

G D Am
Most of our planes were destroyed on the ground where they lay

Em D Em
Waiting for orders we held in the wood

D Cmaj7
Word from the front never came

G D Am
By evening the sound of the gunfire was miles away

E Fmaj7
Ah, softly we move through the shadows, slip away through the trees

E Fmaj7
Crossing their lines in the mists in the fields on our hands and our knees

C G C G E
And all that I ever, was able to see

Am G Fmaj7 G Fmaj7 Em
The fire in the air, glowing red, silhouetting the smoke on the breeze.

D Em
All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine

D Cmaj7
Smolensk and Viasma soon fell

G D Am
By autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel.

Em D Em
Closer and closer to Moscow they come

D Cmaj7
Riding the wind like a bell

G D Am
General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill.

E Fmaj7
Winter brought with her the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads

E Fmaj7
Glueing the tracks of their tanks to the ground while the sky filled with snow

C G C G E
And all that I ever, was able to see

Am G Fmaj7 G Fmaj7
The fire in the air glowing red, silhouetting the snow on the breeze.

Am G Fmaj7
Ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhhh x4

Am G Fmaj7
In the footsteps of Napoleon the shadow figures stagger through the winter

Am G Fmaj7
Falling back before the gates of Moscow, standing in the wings like an avenger

Am G Fmaj7
And far away behind their lines the partisans are stirring in the forest

Am G Fmaj7
Coming unexpectedly upon their outposts growing like a promise

Am G
You'll never know, you'll never know which way to turn, which way to look

Fmaj7
you'll never see us

Am G
As we're stealing through the blackness of the night, you'll never know

Fmaj7
you'll never hear us

G Fmaj7 E Fmaj7
And the evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming

G Fmaj7 E Fmaj7 Em
The morning road leads to Stalingrad and the sky is, softly humming

D Em
Two broken Tigers on fire in the night

D Cmaj7
Flicker their souls to the wind

G D Am
We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin

Em D Em
It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun

D Cmaj7
At home it will almost be spring

G D Am
The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin.

E Fmaj7
Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground

E Fmaj7
The old men and children they send out to face us, they can't slow us down

C G C G E
And all that I ever, was able to see

Am G Fmaj7 G Fmaj7
The eyes of the city are opening now it's the end of the dream

Am G Fmaj7
Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh x4

Am G Fmaj7
I'm coming home, I'm coming home, you can taste it in the wind the war is over

Am G Fmaj7
And I listen to the clicking of the train wheels as we roll across the border

Am G Fmaj7
And they ask me of the time I was caught behind their lines and taken prisoner

Am G Fmaj7
"They only held me for a day, a lucky break", I say; they turn and listen closer

Am G
I'll never know, I'll never know why I was taken from the line

Fmaj7
and all the others

Am G Fmaj7
To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia

G Fmaj7 E Fmaj7
And it's cold and damp in the transit camp and the air is still and sullen

G Fmaj7 E Fmaj7
The pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming

G Fmaj7 E Fmaj7
And I wonder when I'll be home again, and the morning answers, "Never."

G Fmaj7 E
And the evening sighs and the steely Russian skies go on

Fmaj7 F
For-ev-er.


Notes:

Notated by Adam Woolfe. Intro Solo transcribed by Rob Watson rob@gcmac.demon.co.uk
from Indian Summer live version. Original verson is in the keys of Ebm/Abm