Key: G
Introduction:
G6ºr Cback
noted.
When the last word of the verse is sung ("unheard" in Verse I), it has 2 vocal notes.
G6 G G6 G
Lady Adelaide shows no emotion
G6 G G6 G
Colder than a wave in the Arctic Ocean
G6 G G5 G
She waited all her years for those 3 words
G6 G
That never reached her ears
G6 G D C
They just went unhea----rd
G6 G G6 G
Porcelain and frail, slender shoulders
G6 G G6 G
A breeze of gusty gale could knock her over
G6 G G6 G
She knew a handsome man who she gave her body
G6 G
But he did not take her hand
Am
Now she's a bird with broken wing
C
She likes the ideas of things
G
More than what they are bound to bring
D
Lady Adelaide
Am
And with her beauty in slow fade
C
She is so fearful the will say
G
That she is a bed that's been unmade
D
Lady Adelaide