On Hyndford Street Chords by Van Morrison

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_ _ _ Take me back
Take [A] me way way way back [B] on
_ _ _ Highford Street
Where you could feel the silence at half-past 11 on long summer nights
As the wireless played radio Luxembourg [A] and the voices whispered across [B] Beachy River
In _ _ the quietness as we sank into restful slumber in the silence
_ Carried on dreaming in God
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_ [C#m] _ _ It walks up [E] Cherry Valley from [A] North Road Bridge [B] railway line on sunny [E] summer [A] afternoons
_ [B] Picking apples from the side of the tracks that spilled over from the gardens of the houses on [A] Cypress Avenue
[B] watching the moth catcher work the floodlights in the evenings and
meeting done by the pylons
[A] Playing _ Ryan, Mrs.
Kelly's [B] lamp
Going right to Hollywood on the bus and walking [E] from the end of the lines to the seaside
[A] Stopping at Fusco's for ice [E] cream in the des [B] before rock and roll
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_ [E] _ _ [B] _ Highford _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[B] Street [C#m] a better parade [A] orange few [B] St.
Donnard's Church Sunday six [A] bells
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[B] And
in between the silence there was conversation and laughter and music and [E] singing and shivers up the [A] back of the neck _ [Bm]
and
[B] Tuning into Luxembourg [E] late at night [A] and jazz and blues [B] records during the [E] day
[B] Also Debussy on the third program early mornings when contemplation was best
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[B] _ _ _ _ [E] Going up the
Castlereagh Hills in the [B] Craigie Clans in summer and coming back behind fourth Street feeling wondrous and lit up inside
[E] with a sense of everlasting life
_ [A] Reading [Bm] Mr.
Jelly Roll and Big [C#m] Bill Brin's and really [B] the blues my Ms.
Misery and Dharma [A] bums by Jack Kerouac
[E]
over and [A] over again
[E] And [A] voices echoing lit at night over a beachy river [E] and it's [A] always being nigh
_ _ And [E] _ _ _ [A] it's always being nigh
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[B] It's [E] always
[A] Can _
[B] you _ [C#m] _ _
[B] feel the silence
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_ _ _ _ [A] On Highford [E] Street
[A] Or you could feel the silence [E] at half-past 11 on long summer nights
[B] Is the wireless [A] plaid radio [B] Luxembourg and the voices whispered across Beachy [E] River?
_ [A] _ [B] And in the [A] quietness we sank into restful slumber [B] in silence
[C#] And carried [A] on dreaming in God
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