Chords for Don McLean - Winterwood (TV 1983)

_ _ of a British tour and early this afternoon he came into the studio. _ _
Don, you're sitting here with your guitar and I've seen you many times doing
concerts with you and just your guitar and you're on tour at the moment.
Do you
like to just be known as the man with the guitar singing on stage or do you
like a good backing, backing group? _ _ _
I've worked with symphonies and _ I've worked
with backup groups like the Persuasions and the Jordanaires _ and for 15 years I
was a soloist before that.
_ _ We're now on the _ sixth full-length tour of the UK
that I've done the last 12 years _ _ and this time I'll be having bass drums and
guitar and I also play a lot of _ solo in the show and we do songs with the
audience and songs from the 11 albums that I've released over the last 11
years.
You've had a lot of hits over the last [G#] 11 years and I'm sure a lot of
[F#m] people remember American Pie and Vincent [N] and songs that have come out of
[E] there.
Of all the numbers that you've done, all the hits that you've had, I mean
what would you say is your favourite?
The one that you look back on as a big
[N] achievement, as a big hit?
Well the _ _ first three or four albums I made I
think had some of the best songs I ever wrote on them.
_ _ Wonderful Baby and
Castles in the Air and Pie and Vincent and Dreidel and If We Try and Birthday
Song, songs that have earned millions in publishing over the last ten
years but I think the best record I ever made was Crying. _
Which was the Royal
Besson song wasn't it?
Yes, _ because basically a lot of times you know you're [G#m] thought of
as a singer-songwriter but they don't really think you can sing _ and Crying has
a three octave range and I got to work with Bill Justice who did the strings _
and the Jordanaires in the background and _ recently we did _ a Carnegie Hall
concert last year which was a sellout and it was such a success we're gonna do
another one this year at Thanksgiving and record it for video so maybe you'll
be [A] seeing it over here.
Hopefully.
When do you appear in [G#] Manchester?
_ Next [N] Tuesday at
the Free Trade Hall.
[B] Yeah okay well it [G#] sounds like it's [Em] gonna be a good show.
Would you like to play something now?
Oh yes this is a little song called Winterwood.
[A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ No one can take your place with _ me. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Time has proven that [Bm] I'm right.
_ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ There's no place I'd rather _ be _ _ _ than _ _ at your place for the [A] night. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ No time can
pass your sight unseen. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ No moment steals [G] away _ unfound. _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
Lifetime _ lived in such a _
_ _ _ _ _ _ dream floats like a feather [A] to the _ ground.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ For [C#] the first time [F#m] I've been
seeing _
[D] _ things [A] I'd never notice _ _ without [Em] _ _ _
you.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[C#] For the first time [F#m] I'm discovering _
[D] _ things I used [A] to treasure _ _ _ about [G] _ _ _
you.
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] Don McLean perhaps you should enter our song
competition.
_ _ One day, [A] one day _ _ [D] _ [A] I _ was walking [E] along _ I [A] _ [E] _ _ heard the [G] midnight [B] _
_ special _ _ _ singing a
lonesome [E] song.
Oh let the midnight [A] special _ _ _ shine _ a light [E] on me. _
_ _ _ Oh let [G] the midnight
[B] _ _ _ special _ _ _ [E] shine a ever [B] loving [Em] light on me.
_ [E] You wake up [A] in the morning _ _ _ _ _ you hear the ding
[E] dong ring.
[G] _ _ _ _ _
Then you go marching [B] to the table _ _ you _ see the same [G] damn thing.
_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _