Chords for Folk legend Ralph McTell performs West 4th Street & Jones on Later… with Jools Holland

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_ _ _ _ February 63, _ _ the cold would chill [A] your bones.
There's [F#m] a couple walking down the road, [D] West 4th Street and Jones. _ _
_ [E] Shoulders hunched against the cold, they [A] walk through [D] melting snow.
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She [C#m] smiles for the [F#m] camera, _ _ [D]
and he affected [E] not to [A] know. _
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_ _ [D] _ _ [A] His hands deep in his pockets, _ [D] his head was slightly [A] bowed.
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nonchalance that the weather [D] would allow.
_ _ [E] _ Her arms wrapped round him like a [A] shoulder, keeping from [D] the cold. _
_ _ [F#] [G#] Love so warm can melt [F#m] away _ [D] _ what [E] once she _ had [A] to hold.
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_ _ _ _ Spring came late in 63, _ _ [D] it faded like a kiss.
[F#m] And winter came in [C#m] early, [D] and landed like a fist.
_ [E] When Kennedy got shot _
[B] in [A] that open _ [D] limousine,
_ [F#m] Drenched us all in blood and splintered bone, _ [D] right on [E] our TV screen.
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_ _ [D] _ _ [A] When I kissed my girl on Gower Street, [D] _ how was I [A] to know
That [F#m] we'd begun to drift apart as [D] I stumbled through Soho?
_ [E] In the unforgiving neon light, [A] the words she could not [D] speak _
[F#m] Were [F#] written in her [C#] mascara _ _
_ [D] that dried [E] _ upon _
[A] my cheek.
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_ [D] Well, _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [A] the world would keep on turning, [D] young lovers drift [A] apart.
[F#m] Bob and Suzy's rhyming steps leave [D] their footprints on the heart.
[E] In the jingle jangle [D] [E] morning, _ _ [A] Dylan and [D] Rotallo _
[F#m] In a freeze-framed photograph, _
_ [D] _ _ eternally [E] _ _ _
[A] tomorrow.
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