Tonart: G major•
Intro 1
Am
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Em
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Em
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Bm
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Bm
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Bm
Am
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Verse 1
Em
Up on the white veranda
C
She wears a necktie and a
G
D
Em
Panama hat
Her passport shows a face
C
From another time and place
G
She looks nothing like that
Bm
And all the remnants of
C
D
C
her re cent past
D
G
Are scattered in the wild wind
Bm
She walks across the marble
floor
C
D
C
Where a voice from the gambling
D
G
room is callin' her to come on in
Bm
Am
She smiles, walks the other way
C
D
C
D
As the last ship sails and the
G
C
G
From Black Diamond Bay
Verse 2
Em
As the morning light breaks open,
And he asks for a rope and a
G
D
pen that will write
Em
Pardon, monsieur, the desk clerk says
C
Carefully removes his fez
Bm
And as the yellow fog is lifting
C
D
C
D
G
The Greek is quickly heading
for the second floor
Bm
She passes him on the spiral staircase
C
D
C
D
G
Thinking he's the Soviet
Ambassador
Bm
Am
She starts to speak, but he walks away
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D
C
D
As the storm clouds rise and
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C
G
On Black Diamond Bay
Verse 3
Em
A soldier sits beneath the fan
C
Doing business with a tiny man
G
D
who sells him a ring
Em
Lightning strikes, the lights blow out
C
The desk clerk wakes and
begins to shout
Bm
Then the Greek appears
on the second floor
C
D
C
D
G
In his bare feet with a rope
around his neck
Bm
While a loser in the gambling
C
D
C
room lights up a candle
D
G
Says, open up another deck
Bm
But the dealer says,
Am
attendez- vous, s'il vous plait
C
D
C
D
As the rain beats down and
Verse 4
Em
The desk clerk heard the woman laugh
C
As he looked around the aftermath
G
and the soldier got tough
D
Em
He tried to grab the woman's hand
C
Said, here's a ring, it cost a grand
G
She said, that ain't enough
Bm
Then she ran upstairs
to pack her bags
C
D
C
D
While a horse- drawn taxi
Bm
She passed the door that the
Greek had locked
C
D
C
D
Where a handwritten sign read,
Bm
She knocked upon it anyway
Am
C
D
C
As the sun went down
D
C
and the music did play
Verse 5
Em
I've got to talk to someone quick
C
But the Greek said, go away,
G
and he kicked the chair to the floor
D
Em
He hung there from the chandelier
C
She cried, help, there's danger near
G
Please open up the door
Bm
Then the volcano erupted
C
D
C
D
G
And the lava flowed down from the
mountain high above
Bm
The soldier and the tiny man
C
D
C
D
were crouched in the corner
G
Thinking of forbidden love
Bm
But the desk clerk said,
Am
it happens every day
C
D
C
D
As the stars fell down and the
Verse 6
Em
As the island slowly sank
C
The loser finally broke the bank
D
Em
The dealer said, it's too late now
C
You can take your money,
but I don't know how
G
You'll spend it in the tomb
Bm
The tiny man bit the soldier's ear
C
D
C
D
G
As the floor caved in and the boiler
in the basement blew
Bm
While she's out on the balcony,
C
D
C
D
where a stranger tells her
G
My darling, je vous aime beaucoup
Bm
Am
She sheds a tear and then begins to pray
C
D
C
D
As the fire burns on and the
Verse 7
G
Em
I was sitting home alone
Watching old Cronkite on the
D
Em
It seems there was an earthquake that
C
Left nothing but a Panama hat
G
And a pair of old Greek shoes
Bm
Didn't seem like much was happening
C
D
C
D
G
So I turned it off and went
to grab another beer
Bm
Seems like every time you
turn around
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D
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D
G
There's an other hard- luck story
that you're gonna hear
Bm
And there's really nothing
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D
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D
C
And I never did plan to go anyway
Outro 1
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