Sandy Denny - Who Knows Where The Time Goes Chords

[Ab] _ [Ebm] _ _ [Ab] I mean, [Eb] the British [Ab] folk scene in the mid [Eb]-60s was [N] hugely influenced by the Americans in
general and in particular by Dylan.
And just as it was in America, Dylan going electric at Newport in 1965 was a seminal moment.
But then there were all these American singer-songwriters in London, people like Paul Simon and Jackson Frank.
So there was this very strong American singer-songwriter influence, whether it was electric or acoustic,
which in a way the British folk scene didn't really have at that point.
I mean, it came from America.
I mean, the British folk scene was still very much based in traditional material.
There weren't many people around writing their own songs at that stage.
A regular at the Cousins Club, a favourite haunt of the American singer-songwriter community,
Denny developed an ambition to write her own original material, and in late 1966, after
a brief stint appearing with the Johnny Silvo Folk Four, she was invited to join Dave Cousins'
folk trio, the Strawberry Hill Boys, later known as the Straubs.
The band swiftly recorded an album largely comprised of Cousins' own pop material, though
the standout track was an original Denny composition, Who Knows Where the Time Goes.
The Straubs were always a platform for the songs of Dave Cousins, and pretty well all
the songs on that album are Cousins' songs, which are very good.
They fit nicely into that sort of folk, acoustic singer-songwriter movement that Sandy was
very much a part of.
Very pleasant, very nice.
It's intriguing to think what would have happened if she'd stayed with the Straubs, because
they of course became quite big in the early 70s.
But the one thing that everyone remarks on, of that Straubs album, which features Sandy,
was of course it marked the premiere of Who Knows Where the Time Goes, the first version
of her best-known song.
And she fitted in very well.
It was quite a spontaneous thing.
I remember Dave Cousins said he saw Sandy singing at the Troubadour, and he said she
looked and sang like an angel.
And it was immediately, he just said, do you want to join my group?
He said, yeah, OK, go on.
And that was it.
And it was just for this one album that they did in Sweden, because Cousins had a contact
outlet, he gets some cheap studio time.
And it's a really nice-sounding record.
I think it gives an indication of, [F] it's almost a Fairport sound.
It's before Sandy joined Fairport.
And her reading of Who Knows Where the Time Goes, it's not as confident as it would be
when she came to record it a couple of years later.
But there's obviously a real talent there.
[Dm] And of course the voice is just fantastic.
It's a staggering song [F] for a young girl to have written.
I mean, I guess it's born of that _ [C] sort of first stirrings of _ equating one's emotions
with the seasons and the natural world, what I think in literature, [F] people like Coleridge
did it, they called it the pathetic fallacy, that there is some echo of our emotions of
the elements [D] of the natural world.
[Fm] And that song is born of [C] that.
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Fm] All the [F] birds are [Bb] leaving
_ [F] But _ [Bb] how can they know
[F] It's time for them to go
Before [Bb] _ [F] the winter fire I will [Bbm] still be dreaming
[F] _ I [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F]
have no thought of time
_ _ _ But _ _ [Bb] who knows [F] where the time [C] goes
Who [F] knows where the time _ goes _ _ _ _ _
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[Bbm] Sad [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
deserted shore
[Bb] [F] Your fickle friends are leaving
[Bb] _ [F] _ _ Ah, but [Gm] then you know
[F] It's time for them to go
[Bb] _ But [Bb] _
I [F] will still be here
[Bbm] _ I have no [F] thought of leaving
[Bb] I _ _ [Fm] _ do not count [F] the time
But _ [Bb] who knows where [F] the time goes
Who knows where the time goes _
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_ [Bb] _ [F] _ _ _ _ And I'm not alone
While [C] my love is near me
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[F] I _ know it will be [Gm] so
[F] Until it's time to go
[Bb] _ _ [F] _ [Gm] _ So come [F] the storms of winter
_ [Bbm] And then the [F] birds in spring again
[Bb] I _ [Fm] _ [F] do not fear the time
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[F] _ [D] who knows how my love grows
[Bb] Who [F]
knows where the [Bb] time goes
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