Chords for Nik Kershaw - The Riddle Live (Christmas In the Studio)

[N] Have to start [Ab] by asking you about the riddle because I know because people have told you the riddle is one of my favorite _
All time songs.
I think [Abm] it's an absolute _ classic
_ [C] _ And yet it was completely sort of out of context and other stuff.
He'd done at the time
_ _ _ _ [G] Yeah, it was I guess [Db] it was I was some _
The [G] second album the riddle was was released within nine months [E] of the first one.
So I had about two weeks _
To record to write it [Ab] that long.
They're that long
But at the time I got this thing.
I just happened to be listening to a bank with the body pan _ _
who
[Am] it was just amazing [G] Irish music band and _ _
_ _ I kind of got that I just was it really into [Eb] kind of Celtic music and stuff and
[C] _ _
[Eb] That just kind of came out I guess I was it was the last thing I wrote on [F] the album
_ And I wrote it in a big [G] hurry
_ [Gm] _ But the [F] tune just sort of [G] was there if I'm I nicked it
[Eb] _
I mean, I just love the cool [G] patterns the cool patterns of the so that you would she just [Bb] seemed to
_ _ [A] _
Well, not taking a nick for the web but going round and round with the [G] different different ways
You went it would always go somewhere.
You didn't expect it to yeah, I've got a very low attention span.
I kind of get bored _ _
[A] With a cycle of [Ab] chords.
I just think I [G] just assume everybody else is getting bored with those chords
So I think what it needs it needs to go somewhere else [C] now
The end of the person I know who write [Ab] songs like that is is is David Bowie who does [G] them?
Wow, exactly the exactly the same and [Ab] so anyway, I've got that out.
[A] I've got that's my own benefit that one
What's [G] Christmas for you _ _ without getting kind of sentimental and
_ [Eb] Cliched about it.
It's about [G] family, isn't it?
[Eb] Yeah, it's about family and friends and _ and [G] getting together
_ Having a good old, you know, well quite often you don't see [E] people from year to year and it's the only time you [Eb] see him
Christmas album have _ [A] you ever been asked to do it?
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Now I've asked to do Christmas songs, but I can't you know, it's usually [Bm] you get to you [G] get asked to do it in July
_ [A] That's true, yeah, so I've never felt in [Eb] the right mood and it's a way unless I've got actually [Bb] _ an [G] idea to make something new
Or some a ways.
[F] No one has ever come at Christmas before [G] it's just always gonna be [D] horrible and
_ _ [F] _ _
_ Isn't it?
I thought it's gonna be a nightmare.
So no, I've never [G] I've never [F] thought of doing that
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
[Bb] I've got two [C] strong arms
_ _ _ [Dm] _ [Ab] Blessings of Babylon _ [C] time [Ab] to carry [Gm] on and try
[F] the sins [Bb] and _ false [C] _ alarms
_ [D] so to
[Eb] _ _
America [D] the brave
_ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] Wise men [Ab] _ [F] say
[Gm] Never tree by a [F] river.
[Bb] There's a hole [C] in the ground
[Bb] We're an old man [F] of iron [Eb] goes around [Bb] and around and his mind is a [F] beacon
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] Night for a [Bb] strange kind of [F] fashion is [Eb] wrong
_ [Bb] _ Right, but he'll [Dm] never [Eb] never [F] fight
Over [Gm] you.
_ _ [F] _ _
I've got [Bb] plans for [C] us
_ _ [Dm] _ nights in [Ab] the scar
_ [C] Days _ _ [Ab] instead of me I
[Gm] _ _ [F] _ _
Want [Bb] _ to _ [C] _
discuss Oh
[Dm] _ _ _ for anything but [D] light
_ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ [Bb] Wise men _
[F] fighting over [Gm] you
_ _ [F] _
_ [Bb] It's not me you [C]
see
_ _ [Dm] _ Pieces [Eb] of Valentine [C] and just [Ab] the song of [Gm] mine to keep from _
[F] burning _ [Bb] His _ [C] story
_ _ _ _ [Dm] Seasons [Ab] of gasoline [D] and gold
_ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Wise men [Eb] for never [Bb] tree by a [F] river
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] And _ _ his mind is a [F] beacon
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
[C] For a [Bb] strange kind of [F] fashion
_ [Eb] _ wrong [Bb] and right
But he'll never [Eb] never [Bb] fight [Gm] over you
_ [C] _
I've got [F] time to [Bb] _
kill
_ _ [Am] Sly looks [D] in corridors [G] without _ a plan [E] of yours a black bird sings
on [Bm] blue [C] bird _ _
[D] Thanks _ _ to calling of [Bb] the wild
_ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Bb] Wise men [Ab] Shy _
[Gm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [F] Near [Gm] a tree by [Am] a river.
[Bb]
There's a hole [C] in the ground
[Gm] We're an old man [F] of iron [Eb] goes _ around [Bb] and around _
And his mind is [F] a beacon
_ The veil of the [C] night [Bb] for the strange kind of fashion [Eb] does wrong [Bb] and right
[Cm] But he'll never [Eb] never fight
[Bb] Near a tree by a river.
There's a hole [C] in the ground
old _ [F] man of iron [Eb] goes around [Bb] and around
And his mind is a beacon
_ Of the _ [C] _ night [Bb] for a strange kind of fashion.
[Eb] There's a wrong [Bb] and right
[Cm] But he'll never never fight
Over you _ _ _ [Bb] no, you'll never never [F] fight _ _ over you _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _