Chords for Cheryl Wheeler - Sylvia Hotel

_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ This is a song that's not _ [F#] _ exactly a feel-good number,
as you may [B] gather. _ _ _ _ _
But I seem to have survived it.
I had gone through the breakup [F#] of a relationship,
and I was still very much in [B] the throes of that.
And I was up in Vancouver, staying with a hotel
up there called the Soviet.
_ _ When the gig was over, I went back to the [F#] hotel
and being as how the night was young and all,
I [D#] went down to the bar and had myself a beer
and then I [A#] went back.
[B] _ _ _ _ [G#] This is a [F#] lonely night,
_ _ [B] as I know you're not around.
_ You're [C#] thinking of [F#] you two, _
[B] here in the silver hotel. _ _
_ _ _ [C#] Smoking a cigarette,
[F#] _
_ [B] _ drinking a glass of beer, _ _
catching a [F#] conversation.
I am crying now, _ _ _ _ _
one [F#] more,
_ [B] one other thing.
You sound like me, _ _ _
[B] that English [G#m] babe,
under all the [F#] rain.
_ _ _ _ [C#] This cat in this bar [F#] room,
_ _ [B] twitching his tail.
I _ _ [G#] call with a soft [F#] piano,
maybe [B] he only speaks French. _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] Must be safe,
[F#] _ _
_ [B] down in your cowboy home. _ _
[G#] Don't wonder why,
_ [F#] _ [B] I wonder why you stayed so long. _ _ _
One [F#] more,
_ one other thing.
I'm glad I came,
through [A#m] the years,
[B] to English babe,
in the lovely [F#]
way.
_ _ A [C#m] thousand measures,
from the [G#m] rain,
in my [F#] heart. _ _
But [C#m] if I let my [G#m] heart guess,
_ then I [F#] can't stop.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] And this is a [F#] lonely night,
_ [B] though I think it suits me well.
_ _ [G#] And everything's fine [F#] tonight,
[B] here in the silver hotel. _ _