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From: "Dexter N. Muir"
Subject: Re: Lady Eleanor (Lindisfarne)
This is entirely from memory, and I never could get some of the words:
Lady Eleanor
Lindisfarne
Tuning: Standard EADGBE
Playing: Bar chords, E shapes:
Bm = Em bar 7
G = E bar 3
A = E bar 5
Intro: alternating Em, Bm
Verse 1:
Em Bm
Nasty fey magicians sit in lotus on the floor
Em Bm
Belly-dancing beauties and their power-laden swords
Em Bm
Hide my didn't think it could be much more
G A Bm . . . <- fade
When in walked with the Lady Eleanor.
Verse 2:
She tied my eyes with a ribbon of a silken ghostly thread,
I gazed with troubled vision on an old four-poster bed
Where Eleanor had risen to kiss the neck below my head
And bid me come along with her to the land of the dancing dead,
Chorus:
G A Bm
But it's al - right, Lady Eleanor,
G A Bm
Al - right, Lady Eleanor,
G A E Esus4 E Esus4
I'm alright where I am.
[ a bit of tab (bass-line):
e--------|--------|
B--------|--------|
G--------|--------|
D----2---|----9---|
A---2-2--|---9-9--|
E0-----0-|7-----7-|
slide
tab ends]
Verse 3:
She gazed with a love and beauty, like a mother to a son,
Like live and die, and see and be, and all rolled into one,
Then all at once I heard some music playing in my bones,
The same old song I'd heard for years, reminding me of home,
Chorus, [tab].
Verse 4:
Then creeping on towards me with their lips with tongues of fire
A host of golden demons screaming "Lust!" and "Base desire!"
And when it seemed for certain that their screams could get no higher
I heard a voice above the rest, screaming "You're a liar!"
But it's alright, Lady Eleanor,
Alright, Lady Eleanor,
G A [E(bar7) Bm] <- ???
I'm alright here in your arms....
I suspect those last chords are something entirely different, but can't
remember much except they _are_ simple chords.
If anyone can supply the missing words or correct any others I have wrong,
PLEASE Email me. It's an old favourite, and I'd like to get it right!
If memory serves me, Alan Hull wrote it.
p.s. I love the mandolin work, too, but the tab for that would be a bit
beyond me...
Dexter N. Muir Manufacturing Pilot Plant Technician
D.N.Muir@massey.ac.nz Department of Production Technology
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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