Forever Autumn Chords by Jeff Wayne

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_ _ _ [Ebm] For [Gb] three days I fought my way [Eb] along roads packed with [B] refugees, the [F] homeless, burdened
with boxes and bundles [C] containing their valuables.
All that was of value to me was in London.
_ [Gb] By the time I reached their little red brick [Dm] house, Carrie and her father were gone.
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The summer sun is fading as [C] the year grows old, _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ and darker _ days are [G] drawing _ _ near. _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ The winter winds will be much [C] colder, _ _ _ now you're [Dm] not _ here.
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I watched the birds fly south [C] across the autumn sky, _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [F] and one by [Bb] one they [C] _ _ [Gm] disappeared.
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_ _ [Bb] _ I wish that I was flying [C] _ with them, _ now you're [Dm] not here. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Like [F] the sun through [Eb] the trees you came [Dm] to love me, _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] like a leaf on [Eb] a breeze you blew _ [Dm] _
away.
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_ _ Through _ _ [Gm] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ autumn's golden gown [C] we used to kick our way, _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ you [Gm] always loved [F] this time [C] of _ [G] year. _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [Bb] _ Those fallen leaves lie _ [C] _ undisturbed now, _ cause you're [Dm] not here. _ _
Cause you're [C] not _ here. _
_ Cause [Dm] you're not _ _ _ here. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ Suddenly left from house to house, the [C] population panicked and ran, and I was swept along [Dm] _ aimless
and lost without Carrie.
_ _ [C] Finally I headed eastward for the ocean and [Dm] my only hope of survival, the boat.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] Like the sun through [Eb] the trees you came [Dm] to love me, _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] like a leaf [Eb] on a breeze you blew [Dm] _ away. _
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_ gentle rain pours softly [C] on my weary _ _ eyes, _ _ [Bb] _
_ as if to hide [F] a lonely [C] _ [G] tear. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ My life will [F] be forever _ [C] _ autumn, _ _ _ cause you're [D] not here. _ _ _
Cause you're [C] not here. _ _
Cause you're not [Dm] _ _ here.
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As I hastened [Dm] through Covent Garden, Blackfriars and Billingsgate, more and more people joined the [C] painful exodus.
Sad, weary women, their children [G] stumbling and streaked with tears, [Dm] their men bitter and angry,
the rich rubbing shoulders with beggars [Bb] and outcasts.
Dogs snarled and whined, the [D] horse's bits were covered with foam, [G] and here and there [D] were wounded soldiers, [Dm] as helpless as the rest.
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ Saw tripods wading up the Thames, [Gm]
cutting through bridges as though they were [Bb] paper.
_ Waterloo Bridge, [D] Westminster [Bb] Bridge.
_ One [Gm] appeared above Big [Dm] Ben. _ _ _ _ _
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Never before in the history of the world [D] had such a mass of human beings moved [Dm] and suffered together.
_ This was no discipline march, it was a stampede, [A] without order and without a goal.
Six [Dm] million people unarmed and unprovisioned, driving headlong.
[G] It was the beginning of the rout of [Dm] civilization, _ of the massacre of mankind.
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] A vast crowd [Eb] buffeted me [F] towards the already packed [Gm] steamer.
I looked [C] up enviously at those safely on [Bb] board, _ straight into the eyes of my beloved Carrie.
[C] At sight of me she began to fight her way along the packed deck to the [Dm] gangplank. _
At that very moment, [C] it was raised, and I caught a last glimpse of her [Dm] despairing face, as the crowd swept me away from [Bb] her.
[F] Like a sun [Eb] through the trees, you came [Dm] to love me.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] Like a leaf [Eb] on a breeze, you blew [Dm] _ _ away.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Dm] _
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Through autumn's golden gown, [C] we used to kick our way.
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You always [F] loved this time [C] of year.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _
_ Those fallen leaves lie [C] _
_ undisturbed [G] now,
_ [C] _ cause you're not [Dm] _ here.
_ _ Cause you're not _ here.
_ Cause you're not _ here. _ _