Song: Girls On The Avenue
Artist: Richard Clapton
Album: Up & Down the Glory Road - Live (2001)
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Clapton;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opu3tZ9tUgg;
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/music/pop-rock/up-and-down-the-glory-
road-richard-clapton/177162
Tempo: 4|4
Method: Standard strum pattern. The compound chords (Am-Am7) are changed in
the playing of the down to the upstroke.
Tuning: Standard
Capo 2
Chords:
EADGBe
C/G: 332010
Cmaj7/G: 332000
Am: X02210
Fmaj7#11: 133200
Em7: 020000
Am7: X02010
G: 320003
Cmaj9/G: 330000
Intro 1:
|C/G-Cmaj7/G-C/G Am|C/G-Cmaj7/G-C/G Am|
Verse 1:
C/G Am C/G Am
Girls on the avenue, they're trying to get you in,
Fmaj7#11 Em7 Am-Am7 Am-Am7
Strolling by with their rosebud smiles.
C/G Am C/G Am
They're all dressed up to kill, lean on the window sill,
Fmaj7#11 Em7 Am-Am7 Am-Am7
Looking your way with eyes of fire.
Chorus 1:
Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7#11
But don't you slip, don't you slip in love with the,
C/G Em7 Am/Am7 Am/Am7
Girls on the aven - ue.
Bridge 1:
Cmaj9/G Cmaj7/G Cmaj9/G Cmaj7/G Fmaj7#11
Friday night see the girls on the aven-ue like a child at,
Cmaj9/G Cmaj7/G Am Am7 Fmaj7#11 G
Big store windows you feel con-fused so many girls on the a - venue.
Intro 2:
|C/G-Cmaj7/G-C/G Am|
Verse 2:
C/G Am C/G Am
Girls on the avenue, know how to get you in,
Fmaj7#11 Em7 Am-Am7 Am-Am7
Casting out sighs like tricks from a hat.
C/G Am C/G Am
All the Miss Lonely Hearts, ooh they look awful hard,
Fmaj7#11 Em7 Am-Am7 Am-Am7
Then sometimes they seem as fragile as glass.
Chorus 2:
Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7#11
But don't you slip, don't you slip in love with the,
C/G Em7 Am/Am7 Am/Am7
Girls on the aven - ue.
Bridge 2:
Cmaj9/G Cmaj7/G Cmaj9/G Cmaj7/G Fmaj7#11
Friday night see the girls on the aven-ue like a child at,
Cmaj9/G Cmaj7/G Am Am7 Fmaj7#11 G
Big store windows you feel con-fused so many girls on the a - venue.
Refrain:(Middle Eight)
|Am-Am7 Am-Am7|Em-Em7|...
|Am-Am7 Am-Am7|Em-Em7|
Oh-aah-uh-aah-uh-aaah,
|Am-Am7 Am-Am7|Em-Em7|
Oh-aah-uh-aah-uh-aaah.
Chorus 3:
Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7
Don't you slip, don't you slip in love with the,
C/G Em7 Am-Am7 Am-Am7
Girls on the aven - ue.
Bridge 3:
Cmaj9/G Cmaj7/G Cmaj9/G Cmaj7/G Fmaj7#11
Friday night see the girls on the aven-ue like a child at,
Cmaj9/G Cmaj7/G Am Am7 Fmaj7#11 G
Big store windows you feel con-fused so many girls on the a - venue.
Chorus 4:
Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7#11
But don't you slip, don't you slip in love with the,
C/G Em7 Am-Am7 Am-Am7
Girls on the aven - ue.
Chorus 5:
Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7#11
Oh don't you slip, don't you slip in love with the,
C/G Em7 Am-Am7 Am-Am7
Girls on the aven - ue. Ah-oh.
Chorus 6:
Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7#11
Wait now don't you slip, wait boys don't you slip in love with the,
C/G Em7 Am-Am7 Am-Am7
Girls on the aven - ue. Wah-h.
Coda:(Fade)
Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7#11 G Fmaj7#11
Wa-h now don't you slip, wait boys don't you slip in love with the,
C/G Em7 Am-Am7 Am-Am7
Girls on the aven - ue.
"Thank You!"
[End]
Notes.
1."I have a nice house and it's the house that 'Girls on the Avenue' built!" -
Richard Clapton (2010). http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=U--PaPgwmYU
2. Clapton's commercial breakthrough came with his single, "Girls on the Avenue",
(originally) issued in January 1975. Although Festival had little faith in the song
—initially releasing it as the B-side of "Travelling Down the Castlereagh"—it was
picked up by radio and became a major hit, reaching the No. 4 spot on the
Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart in March. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Richard_Clapton#Girls_on_the_Avenue
