Countermoon

small case letters above chord symbols
indicate individual notes:
c4: middle C, and notes above in that octave...
c5: C above middle C
c3: C below middle C  etc.
numbers behind notes will only be indicated
when notes enter another octave or begin a new line

brass:
   d4 e f g  d e g b......f#5 d b4   c#5 e c# b4 c#5 e c# b4
C7                 A9     A13   E7

    a4 d e  b       c5   c#
G9                       A7      D7


( of note: in the verses when D7 is played throughout on one guitar, a second guitar occasionally adds a lick: c4 - d
                                 g3 - a
--making the chords briefly Gsus4/D - D7
in the second verse it's played by the brass )


D7
On a night like this

You look up at your lover

It's like you're in some old cartoon

Then you detect

The scent of faded roses

Up in the sky

There's that cruel countermoon

G9
   Could that be murder you see in her eyes

Bm7                             Bm7/F#    F7/Ab
   You try a long and desperate kiss

G7             G9
   You can't escape it

                     A7
That beam is sure to find you

                      b4  a
     D7               D6  D7
On a night like this



             C/F
The story is told

        G7
How the women get restless

                 D7
And the men grow cold

                D6  D7
Gotham shudders

                       C/F
There's a chill in the air

          G7
There's a countermoon

           D7
Lovers all beware

                c5   d
            Gsus4/D  D7...etc.
Hand in hand

You walk along the river

You stop to clutch and caress

A countermoonbeam

Comes sweeping off the water

She says 'You're not my Jackie.

My Jackie was the best.'

G9
    Spitewaves are threatening


The seaside hotels

Bm7                           Bm7/F#  F7/Ab
       It's nasty weather for July

G7
    Last night you loved her

   G9              A7
Tonight you wonder why
                      b4  a
     D7              D6   D7
On a night like this



             C/F
The story is told

        G7
How the women get restless

        G9       D7
And the men grow cold

                D6  D7
Gotham shudders

                       C/F
There's a chill in the air

          G7
There's a countermoon

       G9    D7
Lovers all beware


|C9      |         |F#7       |            |


|C#m7-5  |F#7sus4  |A11        |            |

G7
   At every pay phone

        G9
There's somebody cryin'

Bm7                                Bm7/F#   F7/Ab
    All the streets are slick with tears

         G7
When you see that blue ray

          F13               F13-5
There's a heartquake on the way

                     c#5  b4
     E7              E6   E7
On a night like this

             D/G
The story is told

        A7
How the women get restless

        A9        E7
And the men grow cold


                E6  E7
Gotham shudders

                       D/G
There's a chill in the air

          A7
There's a countermoon

       A9    D11
Lovers all beware

                     c#5  b4
     E7              E6   E7
On a night like this

             D/G
The story is told

        A7
How the women get restless

        A9       E7
And the men grow cold

                E6  E7
Gotham shudders

                       D/G
There's a chill in the air

          A7
There's a countermoon

       A9    E7
Lovers all beware


|D7       |         |             |      E7      |


|         |         |E7    D/G    |A7       E7    |
                                     all be ware


|D7       |         |             |      E7        |


|         |         |E7    D/G    |A7        E7     |
                                      all beware

repeat and fade

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Peter Kruger casparus50@yahoo.ca