Tea And Sympathy Cifras

Song: Tea and sympathy (LIVE version)
Artist: Janis Ian
Composer: Janis Ian
Live on BBC TV 'Old Grey Whistle Test'
 
Tabbed by DJ  9th Dec 2012
 
Based on the live 1976 'Old Grey Whistle Test'
performance which has a simpler Intro and Coda than
the way Janis plays it on her 'Between the lines'
album version.
 
During the coda Janis plays an arpeggio on a Bb shape
that slides up two frets to a C shape, but she
doesn't play the top string on either.
She sings a G against the Bb which adds the 6th,
so you can choose to play a Bb, or the fuller Bb6
shape by adding the top string in.
 
CAPO: 2nd fret
(Will then sound in the video performance key of A)
 
Chord names & fret positions are relative to the capo
G      = 320003    B7     = x21202    Em7   = 022030
C/G    = 3x2013    Em     = xx2000    Bm    = x24432
Am7    = x02010    Em7/D  = xx0000    D9/F# = 200210
D7     = xx0212    Cmaj7  = x32000    Bb6   = x13333
D/F#   = 20023x    A7     = x02020    Bb    = x1333x
Emadd9 = 024000                       C     = x3555x
 
An alternative voicing for the progression in the
last line of the verses:
G    = xx5433   Em    = xx2000   Cmaj7 = x32000
D/F# = xx4232   Em7/D = xx0000
 
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[Intro]
   G    C/G       G    C/G       G    C/G
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[Verse 1]
G                  Am7      D7               G   D/F#
   I don't want to ride the milk train any - more,
     Emadd9       Am7      B7             Em   Em7/D
I'll go to bed at nine and waken with the dawn,
    Cmaj7              G   D/F#                Emadd9
And lunch at half past noon...dinner prompt at five,
    G       D/F#  Em      Em7/D
The comfort of a  few old friends,
     Cmaj7
Long passed their prime
 
[Chorus]
Am7              A7
Pass the tea and sympathy, 
        A7sus4             A7
For the good old days long gone,
      Cmaj7            G
Let's drink a toast to those...
    D/F#      Em7                   Bm
Who most be - lieve in what they've won,
       Am7
It's a long, long time...
     A7            A7sus4        A7
'Til morning plays wasted on the dawn,
G           D/F#      Em     Em7/D
   I'll not write a - nother line,
    D7              G   C/G  G  C/G
For my true love is gone
 
[Verse 2]
    G                    Am7
And when the guests have done,
     D7          G      D/F#
I'll tidy up the room,
     Emadd9          Am7      B7            Em  Em7/D
I'll turn the covers down and gazing at the moon,
     Cmaj7            G
I'll pray to go quite mad,
D/F#                        Emadd9
    ...And live in long a - go,
     G       D/F#     Em      Em7/D Cmaj7
When you and I   were one, so very  long ago
 
[Chorus]
Am7              A7
Pass the tea and sympathy,
        A7sus4             A7
For the good old days long gone,
      Cmaj7            G
Let's drink a toast to those...
    D/F#      Em7                   Bm
Who most be - lieve in what they've won,
       Am7
It's a long, long time...
     A7            A7sus4        A7
'Til morning plays wasted on the dawn,
G           D/F#      Em     Em7/D
   I'll not write a - nother line,
    D7              G   C/G  G  C/G
For my true love is gone
 
[Verse 3]
     G              Am7      D7            G    D/F#
And when I have no dreams to give you any- more,
     Emadd9          Am7
I'll light a blazing fire,
    B7              Em     Em7/D
And wait within the door,
    Cmaj7             G
And throw my life a - way,
   D/F#   Em7                 Bm
'I wonder why!' they all will say,
Am7                              D9/F#       G
Now I lay me down to sleep for - ever, and a day
 
[Chorus 2]
Am7                  A7
    Pass the tea and sympathy,
        A7sus4            A7
For the good old days are dead,
      Cmaj7            G
Let's drink a toast to those...
    D/F#       Em7                    Bm
Who best sur - vived the life they've lead,
       Am7                  A7
It's a long, long time 'til morning,
A7sus4      A7
        So build your fires high,
G        D/F#   Em      Cmaj7
   Now I lay me down to sleep,
      D7           Bb6
For - ever by your side
 
[Coda]
   C               G    C/G       G
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