The Trials of Cato - Gloria

      3rd fret capo (album) 4th fret capo (youtube – actually played 2nd fret D to match pipes)

[Intro]
Am G F G C F G
Am G F G C F G

[Verse 1]
C           F      C
Sixteen and at the seam,
                Am         G      C
well there were headlamps, canary dreams,
        Am            G        C
I was apprentice to a charcoal art,
     C             G       C
As I waited for my life to start,

[Verse 2]
              C               F          C
And they said black blood ran through my veins,
           Am        G        C
Yet in the pit all I knew was pain,
              Am            G       C
Those blasted chambers were choking me,
         C            G      C
And only Gloria could set me free,

[Verse 3]
           C       F          C
But then a woman I chanced to meet,
               Am          G        C
And I felt the coal move beneath my feet,
           Am     G     C
And in the mirror I did stare,
        C          G           C
At Gloria with the short brown hair,

[Chorus]
             C                 F            C
And she said what’s to come is way past overdue,
         C                G             G C G
And it’s then I knew what I was born to do,
           Am                G                  F                          G
And as she moved through the county fair, not a man in sight could help to stare,
       C
so she left them there,
F                    G       Am         G                      F                            G
watching and waiting for the sound of a woman’s voice, but the look in her eye gave them no choice,
       C
so she left them there,
F                    G       C
watching and waiting for the sound

[Instrumental]
C F C F

[Verse 4]
  C              F      C
I lay behind the miners life,
     Am                  G       C
I’ll say no prayers I’ll take no wife,
             Am          G      C
I’ll busk my way down to Camdem Town
         C                 G        C
For it’s there a queen can find her crown

[Verse 5]
             C           F     C
And then one evening she comes around,
            Am          G           C
We tear our way’O right through the town,
                Am              G     C
And through the sherry wine and smoky haze,
        C            G       C
Oh Gloria shows me a woman’s ways,

[Chorus]
      C               F         C
And I dress myself as best as I can,
         C        G            G C G
And I forget that I was born a man,
           Am                G                  F                          G
And as she moved through the county fair, not a man in sight could help to stare,
       C
so she left them there,
F                    G       Am         G                      F                            G
watching and waiting for the sound of a woman’s voice, but the look in her eye gave them no choice,
       C
so she left them there,
F                    G       C
watching and waiting for the sound

[Instrumental]
C F C C F C

[Verse 6]
C              F    C
Find myself in Soho bars,
              Am           G   C
In a world of ashtrays and old guitars,
              Am                  G       C
And there are those who said that it transgress,
               C               G        C
And there were those who saw behind the dress

[Verse 7]
      C              F    C
Now I clad myself in finery,
          Am          G      C
I sing my song oh for all to see,
            Am         G        C
And all the people how they did stare,
        C          G           C
At Gloria with the short brown hair,

[Chrorus]
      C               F         C
And I dress myself as best as I can,
         C        G            G C G
And I forget that I was born a man,
           Am                G                  F                          G
And as she moved through the county fair, not a man in sight could help to stare,
       C
so she left them there,
F                    G       Am         G                      F                            G
watching and waiting for the sound of a woman’s voice, but the look in her eye gave them no choice,
       C
so she left them there,
F                    G       C
watching and waiting for the sound

[Instrumental]
C F C F C F C F C
Am G F G C F G
Am G F G C F G

[Chorus]
           Am                G                  F                          G
And as she moved through the county fair, not a man in sight could help to stare,
       C
so she left them there,
F                    G       Am         G                      F                            G
watching and waiting for the sound of a woman’s voice, but the look in her eye gave them no choice,
       C
so she left them there,
F                    G       C
watching and waiting for the sound