What A Beautiful Day

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What A Beautiful Day
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Written by The Levellers, from the "Mouth To Mouth" album.

Transcribed by Alan Bigham, 20/12/99.

This is for the acoustic version on the "Too Drunk In Public"
CD.  There's not too much difference between it and the album one.
You can also use a capo on the 2nd fret so that :

A   = G
F#m = Em
D   = C
E   = D

If you play it with the capo you can raise or lower it to suit.


Intro
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N/C              A
What a beautiful day
                    F#m
I'm the king of all time
    D
And nothing is impossible
E                  F#m
In my all powerful mind


Verse I
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              F#m
It was on the fifth of November
     E
When time it went back
     D
Well some say thats impossible
    E                          F#m
But you and I, we never looked back
    F#m
And wasn't it incredible
   E
So beautiful and above all
        D
Just to see the fuse get lit this time
   E                        F#m
To light a real bonfire for all time


Chorus
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N/C                  A
And what a beautiful day
                    F#m
I'm the king of all time (It's a beautiful time)
    D
And nothing is impossible
E                  F#m
In my all powerful mind


Verse II   (Same chords as before)
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Well I was drinking in my night club
It felt good to be back
When Hepburn said "I love you"
And Flynn said "Make mine a double jack"
It was then we planned a revolution
To make things better for all time
When Guevara said "That's crazy"
And ordered up a bottle of wine


Chorus x2


F#m
In there on the big screen
E
Every night I've seen
    D       E            F#m
The way all things could be...
    E       D       E       F#m     E
For me, for me, for me, for me


A   F#m   D   E   F#m


Verse III   (Same chords as before)
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The news broke after midnight
That we pulled the temples down without a sound
But the generals they were hiding
And the ministers, well
They'd all gone to ground
Wealth re-distrubution
Became the new solution
So I've got a paper bag
But you got the one with all the holes


Chorus x2


That's because nothing is impossible
In my all powerful mind