Vicarious Pleasures

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Track 1 Half a Century

Chords and lyrics

Half a century

 Dedicated to my long-time friend and musical collaborator, Steve Franks (1949-2019)

|D2                        |A4                        |G6                        |A                           |

|D2                        |A4                        |G6                        |A                           |

|F#m                     |Bm+5                  |C                           |G                          |

|A 2/4 7                                |D                           |G       A7 Gmaj7                |A        

Sitting round at the Rossi bar, shooting the breeze

Move along to a friend’s house taking our ease

Take a guitar and pick out a tune

Summer seems endless in the sunshine of June

Play the Wild Rover or Blues Run the Game

Everyday different, yet somehow the same

Enjoy what we had, whether borrowed or bought

Look to the future though give it no thought

|Bm+5  | Bm+5|A4run | A4run|            

|Bm+5  | Bm+5|A4run | A4run|            

|Bm  A|G            |Bm  A|G            |

|Bm  A  |Bm       |Bm       Asus4 |G             |BmAsus4 |G                    |

So long old friend, so long ago

So long old friend, if we could make time run slow

We’d still be there in those carefree days

Singing our songs whiling time away

Whilst the sun is shining let’s make hay

And hope it never ends… we know that all things end

We all know shit happens – so what else is new

The years of half a century, give or take a few

The shared love of music, the shared love of rhyme

Will bind us together in the woven threads of time

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