When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease Chords by Roy Harper

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] When the day is done _ [G] and the ball has spun In [Bb] the umpire's pocket [Cm]
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_ _ _ [Bb] And all remains in [Eb] the _ [G] groundsman's pace [Bb]
For the rest of time [Cm] and the day _
_ [Bb] There'll be one MacDoug and his [D] _ [Dm] master _ _ _ [G] Pushing foot forward the [Cm] spin
_ On [Bb] a dusty pitch [G] With two pound _ [Bb] sticks of willow wood
[F] In the sun _ _ [Bb] When an _ _ old [G] cricketer leaves the crease
[Bb] You never know whether [Cm] he's on _ [Bb] If sometimes you're catching [Eb] a feeling
_ Of [Bb] a twelve-man at [F] Sydney _ Meadow _ And it [Bb] could be Jeff and [Eb] it could be John
[Bb] With a dewball sting in [Cm] his tail _ _ [Bb] And it could be me and it [Eb] could be thee
[Bb] And it could be the sting in [F] the ale _ _ [G] The sting in the ale
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_ [Bb] an old _ cricketer _ [Eb]
leaves the crease [Bb] Well you never know whether [Cm] he's on
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sometimes you're catching [Eb] a feeling Of [Bb] a twelve-man at Sydney [F] Meadow
_ _ [Bb] And it could be Jeff and [Eb] it could be John [Bb] With a dewball sting in [Cm] his tail
And [Bb] it could be me [Eb] and it could be _ [Bb] thee With a dewball sting in his [F] tail
_ _ _ [Eb] The sting in the ale
When _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] the moment _ comes [G] and the gathering's set [Bb] And the clock turns back to [Cm] rest
On _ _ [Bb] the years of grace as the [Eb] _ hostess trays [Bb] For the last time bound of [Cm] the air _ _
Well this [Bb] way at last _ [Dm] recollection _ The [G] _ hallowed strip in [Cm] the hay
_ The [Bb] brave old man [Eb] and the new day sun Are much [Bb] more than just young of [F] their days
_ [Bb] When an old _ _ [Eb] cricketer leaves the crease [Bb] Well you never know whether [Cm] he's on
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[Bb] If sometimes you're catching [Eb] a feeling _ Of [Bb] a twelve-man at Sydney [F] Meadow
_ _ [Bb] [F] And [Bb] it could be Jeff _ [Eb] and it could be John [Bb] With a dewball sting in his [Cm] tail
_ And [Bb] it could be me and [Eb] it could be thee [Bb] With a dewball sting in [F] his tail
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sting in the ale
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an old _ cricketer [Gm] leaves the crease [Bb] Well you never know whether [Cm] he's on
_ _ [Bb] If sometimes you're catching a [Eb] feeling Of [Bb] a twelve-man at [D] Sydney [F] Meadow _ _
_ [Bb] And it could be me and it [G]
could be thee
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