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Song: St. Dominic's Preview
Artist: Van Morrison
Album: St. Dominic's Preview (1972)

Tabbed by Patrick Rickelton
for http://www.freewebcity.com/vantab/

matt's note:
Is it just me, or is Great Deception on Hard Nose the Highway the same song?
A note about the intro - /F# and /B (relative to the capo) are there because
I can't hear the full A or D chords, but those are the roots. It's on piano, 
so don't worry about it. Who needs intros anyway?

Capo III

Intro: G  C  /F# /B  Em  D  C


Verse:
C                                    G
Shammy [chamois] cleaning all the windows,
D              C                    G
Singing songs about Edith Piaf's soul.
D                  C                      G
And I hear blue strains of "no regredior"
D                      C                G
Across the street from Cathedral Notre Dame.
D         C                G
Meanwhile back in San Francisco
D                    C                      G
We're trying hard to make this whole thing blend,
D         C          G
As we sit upon this jagged
Am                        D
Storey block, with you my friend.

Prechorus:
           C            G
And it's a long way to Buffalo.
       C                       G
It's a long way to Belfast city too.
C                              G
And I'm hoping the choice won't blow the hoist
          C                                    G
'cos this town, they bit off more than they can chew.

Refrain:
      D                  C
As we gaze out on, as we gaze out on
      D                   C
As we gaze out on, as we gaze out on
C                 G
Saint Dominic's Preview
C                 G
Saint Dominic's Preview
C                 G   Em  D
Saint Dominic's Preview

Verse:
        Eb                Bb
All the orange boxes are scattered everywhere.
We get to Safeway supermarket in the rain.
And everybody feels so determined
Not to feel anyone else's pain.

(You know that) No one's making no commitments
To anybody but themselves,
Hidin' behind closed doorways,
Tryin' to get outside, outside of empty shells

Pre-chorus:
And for every cross-cuttin' country corner, (country corner)
For every Hank Williams railroad train that cries,
And all the chains, badges, flags and emblems
And every strain on every brain and every eye (?)

Refrain:
As we gaze out on, as we gaze out on
As we gaze out on, as we gaze out on
Saint Dominic's Preview
Saint Dominic's Preview
Saint Dominic's Preview.

Verse:
And the restaurant tables are completely covered.
The record company has paid out for the wine.
You got everything in the world you ever wanted
Right about now your face should wear a smile.

That's the way it all should happen
When you're in, when you're in the state you're in;
Have you got your pen and notebook ready,
I think it's about time, time for us to begin.

Pre-chorus:
And way over in a 52nd Street apartment,
Socializing with the whino few,
Just to be hip and get wet with the jet set.
But they're flying too high to see my point of view.

Refrain:
As we gaze out on, as we gaze out on
As we gaze out on, as we gaze out on
Saint Dominic's Preview
Saint Dominic's Preview
Saint Dominic's Preview.

See them freedom marching,
Out on the street, freedom marching.
Saint Dominic's Preview.