Chords for Waterloo Sunset - Bowie, Geldof, Weller etc on Ray Davies' British masterpiece

Maybe [G#] England was over.
Maybe [G] Waterloo Sunset was me saying goodbye [N] to England.
Waterloo Sunset's got a real feeling of longing about it for something that's
only just gone.
There's something so anchored about that song, it's so
inherently, it's as English as Peter Aykroyd is English.
[F#] It's as [F] London as
Peter Aykroyd is London.
[G] There's something so deeply moving about the
song, it's so timeless. _
Couldn't be set in any other place or any other country in
the world.
I've got this delightful daughter who's seven years old and first
time in London, she lives in Ireland, the first time in London I took her to
Waterloo and I took her across the bridge.
It is important, I like people who I care
about and who I love to experience that space.
I like to see how they feel about it.
It's really stupid but it means a lot to me.
To a boy who was studying O-level
English and it's called the Intermediate Certificate in Ireland and I was
learning upon Westminster Bridge, _ Wordsworth, you know, earth hath not
anything to show more fair and I particularly remember the last couplet
dear God the very houses seem asleep and all that mighty heart is lying still and
I just immediately in my head wanted to segue into millions of people because
he's on Westminster Bridge and I always saw them as being equal, you know, here
was a vision of London, a guy staggering home at 4 or 5 in the morning and the sun
coming up over London and here was this other story of these people in the
late evening on another bridge.
And it's just like two people captured in a
moment, it's a very very brilliant song.
You know, aside from the lyrics and the
imagery but it's just that melody is just fantastic to me,
it just gets me here every time I hear it.
When God knows how many times I've played it or heard [G#] it countless times. _
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Dirty [E] old river must you [B] keep rolling, flowing [A] into the night. _
People [E] so busy make [B] me feel dizzy, taxi [A] light shines so bright. _
But I [F#] _ don't [C#] _ _
need [E] no _ _ friends.
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As long [E] as I gaze up, watch a [B] blue sunset, I [A] am in paradise. _ _ _ _ _
[G#m] It's the wholeness of the record I think that's important, it's the finished product that has [Em] that innocence.
The record would not, could not exist without my brother's wonderful guitar part.
[D#] I took great care in making the record, _ _ _ get everything perfect.
There's not much on it
and the vocals there are not great but I've mixed them, I mixed it, you know, I could actually,
it was eight tracks where I could mix it with these fingers.
So it's like painting in a sense,
it's as close as I'll ever get to it now and to me it was like doing my art.
[G#m] It was finally cracked.
Terry meets [E] Julie, Waterloo [B] station, every [A] Friday night.
_ But I am [E] so lazy, don't want [B] to wonder, I stay [A] at home at night.
[C#m] _ _ But [F#] I _ _ [C#] don't _ feel [E] afraid. _
_ [B] You have [G#m] to take that out of context of Simply the Kings and you have to put it into [A] great songs
that will always exist in the pop pantheon and Waterloo Sunset is [G#m] top five, [F#] no question.
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_ [E] _ _ [G#] Ray is up there, you [D#] know, with the great lyric writers and melody writers that can combine the
John Lennon and Paul McCartney you have, songs at different levels of enjoyment.
Those stories are invested with personal meaning [F] and real emotion and real sense of place and time
and it isn't just like a fantasy, you know.
His fantastic ability to _ convey a situation and emotions and people's feelings
_ and the ordinary person in the streets feelings.
You never really hear another person with that distinct
voice and I mean actual voice and I mean [F#] the mind articulated that you can hear on
_ _ dead-end street, that you can hear on days, that you can hear on Waterloo Sunset and that
that is unique and to Ray and _ beautiful for all time.
Without doubt [D#] one of [C#] our leading songwriters,
always has been and I believe always will be.
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I think [B] he's never lost his touch.
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_ _ _ _ _ [C#] Don't feel [F#m] afraid
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Whenever [E] they gaze on _ [B] Waterloo Sunset they are in [A] paradise _ _ _
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_ _ Waterloo Sunset's fine _
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_ [Em] _ [E] _ _ _ It is like a dream sometimes and when you think it's just so quick and it's, you know, it's gone.
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