Portobello Road – Cat Stevens Song Chord/Tab and Lyric
Artist: Cat Stevens
Album/Category: Matthew & Son (1967)
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#Stevens, Fowley – Portobello Road
#Transcribed by Michael F Sullivan
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#A lot of this is played arpeggio but it really wouldn't be very
#useful to transcribe it all here. Just fool around with the
#chords on your own.
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#Intro
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#(while whistling)
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#Part A.
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Getting hung up all day on smiles
Walking down Portobello Road for miles
Greeting strangers in Indian boots
Yellow ties and old brown suits
Growing old is my only dan – ger
Part B.
Cuckoo clocks and plastic socks
Lampshades of old antique leather
Nothing looks weird, not even a beard
Or the boots made out of feathers
I keep walking miles
'til I feel a broom beneath my feet
Or the hawking eyes
Of an old stuffed bull across the street
Nothing's the same if you see it again
It'll be broken down to litter
Oh and the clothes everyone knows
That that dress will never fit her
Part C.
(whistling…)
(…whistling…)
(…more whistling)
(all strummed downward quickly)
Repeat parts A and B and then part A again with the last line:
Growing old is my only dan – ger
Outro (while whistling)
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