Postcards of Scarborough

  Probably Michael Chapman's most well known song. The 
 original version was recorded on Fully Qualified Survivor
 in 1970 with a lovely Paul Buckmaster string arrangement. 
 That version has surfaced on various collections down the
 years. There's a live version, without the strings but 
 similar in feel, on the BBC sessions CD. A gentler
 version appears on Still Making Rain released in 1993. The
 song has a couple of private jokes in it. The Harbour is a
 fish and chip shop. Paradise is a street in Scarborough,
 just "Paradise" not "Paradise Street, Avenue or Lane".
  
 [Capo on 2nd fret]
 
 F6 [1 x 3 2 3 1]
 
 Theres a little twiddle on the D chord at the ends of the 
 verses, indicated by the D6/4 below. Listen to the records
 to get the timing but you just switch between a normal D
 and 
 
 D6 [x 0 0 2 3 3] and D4 [x 0 0 2 3 0]
 
 
 Intro - I'm not going to attempt to transcribe Michael's
 finger-picking Intro. It's starts out as the chords of
 the verse after that you're on your own ;-) In the verse
 you need to flat-pick out the bass run G, F#, F, E from
 the first 4 chords.
 
 
 
 G                D                   F6         E
 Two postcards of Scarborough just to keep in my mind
    Am   C                 D          D6/4 
 To hide away up there and help me remind
 G              C             D    D6/4
 Myself of time past and time passing
 
 G                  D               F6              E
 I went down to the harbour just to catch a bite to eat
 Am                C            D          D6/4
   Boats along the quayside and seagulls round my feet
 G            C                    D    D6/4
 Remind me of when we were there together
         Em          Bm
     The food was so tasteless 
             Em          Bm
     And the wine was so stale
        Em           Bm
     I looked in the mirror
            Em          D6/4
     And my face was so pale
         G         C             D    D6/4
     Not like when we were there together
 
 G                   D        F6          E
 I took a walk up to Paradise like we did before
             Am                 C           D    D6/4
 But there's nothing there like Paradise to me anymore
 G         C                D     D6/4
 Not since we've been there together
 
   G            D                 F6                E
 I sleep in the same room and the walls they are so white
             Am               C                 D      D6/4
 But there's nothing there to warm me in the cool of the night
 G             C             D    D6/4
 Not like when we were here together.
 
         Em            Bm
     The food it is so tasteless
             Em         Bm 
     And the wine is so stale
       Em          Bm
     I look in the mirror
            Em         D6/4
     And my face is so pale
         G         C             D    D6/4
     Not like when we here there together
 
     G            D                   F6         E
 Two postcards of Scarborough just to keep in my mind
    Am   C                 D       D6/4
 To hide away up there and help me remind
 G              C             D   D6/4 
 Myself of time past and time passing
 G              C             D    D6/4
 Myself of time past and time passing
 G              C             D    D6/4
           time past and time passing
 G              C             D    D6/4
 G              C             D        Em
                         time passing
  
  
 [Note the chords on "The food is tasteless" sections are not
 what's on the records, they should be Am + Em instead of Bm + Em]