Chords for Al Stewart - Night of the 4th of May

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_ _ _ _ _ Oh, the days they [Ab] flew by, _ [B] and the leaves fell from [Ebm] the trees.
[B] _ [Ebm] _ [Gb] And many times [Db] you came around, [B] many [Gb] times you slept [Abm] with me.
_ _ [Gb] And every time [Ab] that we made love, [Ebm] you wrote it down in your diary,
[B] my lady [Eb] of latest.
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_ _ _ [Abm] And I [Gb] would always [Abm]
say [Gb] to you, [E] don't ask about _ tomorrow.
_ [Abm] Give what you [Gb] have, [Abm] take what you [Gb] need, [E] your time is only [Eb] now.
_ _ Don't try to tie me [Eb] down to promises.
_ [E] Live for today, today is all there is, [Abm] and freedom _ [Eb] seems to be everything to [Abm] me. _ _
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I [Ab] took you down to a party [B] on the night of the 4th [Ebm] of May,
_ _ [Gb] _ and a [Db] strange and growing restlessness had hung [Gb] in the air [Abm] all day.
_ [Gb] The need to [Db] try and tear down [Gb] and destroy all [Eb] that we'd [Gb] made, my [Eb] lady of latest.
_ _ _ _ _ You whispered in my [Gb] ear and asked [E] me if I [Eb] fancied her.
_ _ [E] You [Gb] told me that _ [Ab] [Gb] he'd phoned you when [E] I was in _ [Eb] America,
_ _ _ [E] daring each other just [Eb] to say, okay, _ swap for tonight.
[Eb] Didn't I always say that [Abm] freedom _
_ [B] [Gb] seems to be everything [Abm] to me?
_ _ _ [Dbm] She came, [Eb]
sat down [Abm] beside me, _ [Dbm] and you made an [Gb] excuse to go [Abm] downstairs.
_ [Dbm] And she smiled and made [Bb] the kind of [Abm] conversation [Eb] that you do. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Dbm] And later [Gb] on she said, [Abm] my last train has gone, [Dbm] oh I wonder, [Bbm] could you run [Abm] me home?
_ [Bb] And I found you [Eb] in the hallway, [Abm] and I told you that was all that [Eb] I would do.
_ [Abm] Just run her home [Eb] and it's through, _ [Abm] _ oh I [Eb] thought you knew.
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But I [Gb] must [B] confess, _ [Gb] _ I laid my head on [E] her breast, _ _ [Abm] _
and it [Gb] seemed so hard to pull it [E] away.
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Her hand [Gb] touched [B] my hand, [Gb] and her eyes were offering [E] the rest.
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If it wasn't [Gb] for you, oh I would have [E] _
stayed.
_ _ _ _ _ Came [Gb] back home [E] through the morning, [Ebm] _ _
[Gb] find you lying awake.
_ [Abm] I [Gb] knew at once [E] what you'd done, and I heard [Bb] myself say,
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why did you have to sleep with him?
_ _ Anyone else wouldn't have mattered _ half as much _ _ as him. _ _
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_ _ [Db] _ I _ _ [Ebm] _
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_ _ _ _ [Ab] don't want to touch you, _ [Gb] _ [Db] somehow you feel [Ebm] unclean. _
_ [Gb] Ah, but I just [Db] wish that you were [Gb] 500 miles away [Abm] from me. _
_ [Gb] Don't talk at all, [Db] don't start to cry, [B] _ [Gb] just pick up [Eb] your things, [Gb] my [Eb] lady of _ ladies. _ _ _
_ [Abm] And [Gb] though I'd always [Abm] told [Gb]
myself [E] that when our time [Eb] was ended,
[Abm] I'd [Gb] walk away [Abm] with no [Gb]
regrets [E] and no attempts to [Eb] stay. _
_ [E] Somehow it doesn't seem [Eb] to be that way.
_ [E] I find I'm needing [Ebm] every word you say, this [Abm] freedom _ [Bb] _ seems to [Eb] be everything [Abm] to me. _ _ _ _
[Dbm] Ah, [Ab] you went up to [Abm] Cambridge, _ [Dbm] and you stayed [Gb] in your brother's [Abm] room, _
[Dbm] and you wrote me a [Ab] letter, and you sent it [Abm] the same [Eb] afternoon. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dbm] [Gb] You said I just want to [Abm] hurt myself, _ [Dbm] oh I need [Ab] you so [Abm] badly now. _
[Dbm] And you told me without you [Abm] there seems no horizon [Eb] at all,
_ _ [Abm] _ no place [Eb] lower to fall, _ [Abm] _ just no [Ebm] crack in [Eb] the wall. _ _ _
_ [Abm] _ [Gb] Hey, don't [E] leave me, don't leave [Eb] me, the [Gb] _ shapelessness of the door,
_ [Abm] the [Gb] floods above [E] and beneath me, I just [Eb] can't go on. _ _ _ _
[E] And I had to walk right into [Eb] the trap, _ [E] and I had to say please [Eb] come back. _
Though I knew at once [Dbm] my resistance was slipping [Eb] away.
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_ [Ebm] _ [F] _ _ Why did I have to fall for you?
_ Anyone else _ wouldn't have hurt me half as much _