Affair on 8th Avenue - guitar chords and comments
Lyrics without distraction HERE
From Gord's album "Back Here on Earth" (1968). I first heard it from a compilation "Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle" in the early seventies. The song reminds me of one special girl from college, thus I play it rather often.
That girl and me have stayed in contact through more than forty years. She got married with a friend of mine. She sure got a better deal, but the perfume still lingers on.
C#m G#m7 F#m G#m
the perfume that she wore was from some little store
A B7
on the down side of town
C#m G#m7 F#m G#m
but it lingered on long after she'd gone
A B7
I remember it well
E B7sus4 A9 B7
and our fingers entwined like ribbons of light
E Emaj7 A D B7
and we came through a doorway somewhere in the night
The bio I leave You with the icon at the bottom doesn't mention that Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. [CC OOnt], born November 1938, died of natural causes at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto on May 1, 2023, at the age of 84.
Bless him ... and all canadian folk singers!