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Just Good Friends by Peter Hammill 




                         Just Good Friends 







This song has much more chords than the PH "standard song", very much
because of the raise of 3/2 tones in the key near the end;

F#:     2-4-4-3-2-2------------------------------------.)
F#m:    2-4-4-2-2-2------------------------------------.)
F#5:    2-4-4-x-x-x  (but really this is a no-chord..--.)
A:      5-7-7-6-5-5 or 0-0-2-2-2-0---------------------.)
C#:     x-4-6-6-6-4------------------------------------.)
E:      x-7-9-9-9-7 or 0-2-2-1-0-0---------------------.)
B:      x-2-4-4-4-2 or 7-9-9-8-7-7---------------------.)
G#m:    4-6-6-4-4-4------------------------------------.)
C#m:    x-4-6-6-5-4------------------------------------.)
D:      x-5-7-7-6-5 or x-x-0-2-3-2---------------------.)
Am:     x-0-3-3-2-0 or 5-7-7-5-5-5---------------------.)
G:      5-7-7-6-5-5 or 3-2-0-0-0-3---------------------.)
Am:     x-0-3-3-2-0 or 5-7-7-5-5-5---------------------.)
Bm:     x-2-4-4-3-2 or 7-9-9-9-7-7---------------------.)
Em:     0-2-2-0-0-0 or x-7-9-9-8-7---------------------.)


(Intro:)

F# / F#m / F# / F#m


(First Verse:)

F#
Drawing back the curtains,
							  F#m
sluggish city daylight in the afternoon...
F#
Here's that special silence,
								F#m
just before you walk out of the hotel room.
		  A                   C#
Each time we're so close I assume
		   F#m        C#
that we'll never be again -
		A         E  F#5 (no chord)
oh, how long must we pretend


(Second Verse - same chords)

A casual affair is all that you can spare
from your emotional change;
A calendar of meetings,
strangers on the street
the best we ever arrange.
Now I just can't stand all the pain,
all the constant make and mend;
oh how long must we pretend
that we're just good friends?

F#m                C#
   I gave you my devotion,
F#m                     B
   hiding nothing up my sleeve -
E                    G#m
   If I walked clean out of your life
		  C#m            F#m
would you even notice me leave?
					 C#
So much tangled-up emotion,
F#m                          B
   should I stay or should I go?
E                 G#m
If I walked clean out of your life
	C#m                       F#m
how long would it take you to know?
(no chord)
Are we such good friends?


(On original release include the 4 lyric lines, on The Love Songs
play them instrumentally - Same chords)


You used to say 'I love you',
you used to say 'You make me feel alive and young';
now we're just a habit, a flavour, one a month,
to titillate your tongue.
How sordid this has become
as the means approach the end -
Oh, how long can we pretend


F#m                C#
   I gave you my devotion,
F#m                     B
   hiding nothing up my sleeve -
E (add choir...      G#m
   If I walked clean out of your life
		  C#m            F#m
would you even notice me leave
F#m                   C#
So much tangled-up emotion,
F#m                          D
   should I stay or should I go?
G                 Bm
If I walked clean out of your life
	Em                        D(?)  Am   E   Am   D
how long would it take you to know?
G                 Bm
If I walked clean out of you life
	Em                        Am
how long would it take you to know
(no chord)
Are we such good friends?










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