Closing Time

Accordi Closing Time

Intro:
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SOL
Ah we're drinking and we're dancing
                       
And the band is really happening
        
MIm                        
And the Johnny Walker wisdom running high
       
SIm
And my very sweet companion
                       
She's the Angel of Compassion
      
MIm                                
She's rubbing half the world against her thigh
          
DO
And every drinker every dancer
                               
Lifts a happy face to thank her
    
SOL             
SI7            
MIm
The fiddler fiddles something so sublime
        
RE
All the women tear their blouses off

And the men they dance on the polka-dots
         
DO         
And it's partner found, it's partner lost
                                     
And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
     
SOL
It's Closing Time...
         
DO
Yeah the women tear their blouses off

And the men they dance on the polka-dots
         
SOL                 
SI7
And it's partner found, it's partner lost
         
MIm                  
DO
And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
     
SOL            
RE               
It's Closing Time 

         
SOL
Ah we're lonely, we're romantic

And the cider's laced with acid
        
MIm
And the Holy Spirit's crying, 'Where's the beef?'
        
SIm
And the moon is swimming naked
                     
And the summer night is fragrant
       
MIm               
With a mighty expectation of relief
      
DO
So we struggle and we stagger
         
Down the snakes and up the ladder
       
SOL             
SI7           
MIm
To the tower where the blessed hours chime
      
RE
And I swear it happened just like this

A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
    
DO 
The Gates of Love they budged an inch
                            
I can't say much has happened since
    
SOL
But Closing Time
  
DO
I swear it happened just like this

A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
    
SOL                
SI7
The Gates of Love they budged an inch
  
MIm                
DO
I can't say much has happened since...
SOL              
RE
Closing Time...  Closing time

  
MIm
I loved you for your beauty

But that doesn't make a fool of me
SIm
You were in it for your beauty too
      
MIm
And I loved you for your body
               
There's a voice that sounds like God to me
  
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RE      
Declaring, declaring, declaring 
 
that your body's really you
      
DO
And I loved you when our love was blessed
     
And I love you now there's nothing left
    
SOL          
SI7          
MIm
But sorrow and a sense of overtime
      
RE
And I missed you since the place got wrecked

And I just don't care what happens next
DO                             
Looks like freedom but it feels like death
                  
It's something in between, I guess
     
SOL
It's Closing Time
SOL7   
DO
Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked

By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
SOL                       
SI7
Looks like freedom but it feels like death
     
MIm             
DO
It's something in between, I guess
     
SOL             
RE
It's Closing Time

           
SOL
Yeah we're drinking and we're dancing

But there's nothing really happening
        
MIm
And the place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
       
SIm
And my very close companion
                      
Gets me fumbling gets me laughing
        
MIm
She's a hundred but she's wearing
  
Something tight
      
DO                    
And I lift my glass to the Awful Truth
                                 
Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth
  
SOL            
SI7           
MIm
Except to say it isn't worth a dime
        
RE
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
                        
And it's once for the devil and once for Christ
        
DO
But the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
                             
We're busted in the blinding lights
   
SOL           
Of Closing Time
    
DO
The whole damn place goes crazy twice

And it's once for the devil and once for Christ
        
SOL                   
SI7
But the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
      
MIm           
DO
We're busted in the blinding lights...

Busted in the blinding lights
   
SOL            
RE  
Of Closing Time...Closing time

       
SOL
Oh the women tear their blouses off

And the men they dance on the polka-dots
     
RE
It's Closing Time
         
SOL
And it's partner found, it's partner lost

And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
     
RE
It's Closing Time
  
SOL
I swear it happened just like this:

A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
     
RE
It's Closing Time
    
SOL
The Gates of Love they budged an inch

I can't say much has happened since
    
RE
But Closing Time
  
SOL
I loved you when our love was blessed

I love you now there's nothing left
    
RE
But Closing Time
  
SOL
I miss you since the place got wrecked

By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
    
RE
But Closing Time...