I used to play something even simpler, but Banjo Ray's GCGCG line made me look into the twiddley bits. So I bought a new CD of ISB on March 26 and studied it. However by looking up chord progressions and cadences, instead of GCGCG I get G C Em Am Em G.

October Song
by Robin Williamson

Instrumental opening of 24 beats:

1 [G] 2 [D7] 3 [G] 2 4 5 [D7] 6 [D] 7 8
9 10 [C] 11 12 13 [G] 14
15 16 17 18 19 [D7]
20 [G] 21 22 13 24

[G] I'll sing you [C] this [Em] Oct[Am]o[Em]ber [G] song
For there [D] is no song before [G] it.
The words and [C] tune [Em] are [Am] none [Em] of my [G] own
For my [D] joys and sorrows [G] bore it
Be[C]side the [G7] sea [G] grow [C] bram[Em]bly [G] briars
[D] In the still of eve[G]ning.
Birds fly [C] out [Em] be[Am]hind [Em] the [G] sun
And [D] with them [D7] I'll be [G] leaving

Those quick Em Am chords may look too complex but they're the music you're making already because you're singing some of the notes of those chords at the same time. Also they are what you're really playing in your twiddley bits.

After the Instrumental the second an fourth verse open with G G7 C G

[G] The fallen [G7] leaves [G] that [C] jewel the [G] ground,
They know the art of dying,
And leave with joy their glad gold hearts
In the scarlet shadows lying.
When hunger calls my footsteps home,
The morning follows after,
I swim the seas within my mind
And the pine-trees laugh green laughter.

After the Instrumental first and third verse open with G C Em G

[G] I used to [C] search for [Em] happi[G]ness
And I used to follow pleasure,
But I've found a door behind my mind,
And that's the greatest treasure.
For rulers like to lay down laws
And rebels like to break them,
And the poor priests like to walk in chains
And God likes to forsake them.

After the Instrumental second and fourth verse open with G G7 C G

I met a [G7] man [G] whose [C] name was [G] Time
And he said I must be going,
But just how long ago that was
I have no way of knowing.
Sometimes I want to murder time
Sometimes when my heart's aching,
But mostly I just stroll along
The path that he is taking.

END

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