Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Performed by |
Procol Harum |
Release Year |
1967 |
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Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Key: C
Major
BPM: ♩ = 75
Time: 4/4
|C G/B |Am Am/G |F C/E |Dm Dm/C | |G G/F |Em7 G/D |C F |G - F/A G/B | |C G/B |Am Am/G |F C/E |Dm Dm/C | We skipped the light fandango, turned cartwheels 'cross the floor |G G/F |Em7 G/D | I was feeling kinda seasick |C G/B |Am Am/G |F C/E |Dm Dm/C | But the crowd called out for more, the room was humming harder |G G/F |Em7 G/D | As the ceiling flew away |C G/B |Am Am/G |F C/E |Dm G | When we called out for another drink, the waiter brought a tray, and so it |C G/B |Am Am/G |F C/E |Dm Dm/C | was that later, as the miller told his tale |G G/F |Em7 G/D |C F |C G | That her face, at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale |C G/B |Am Am/G |F C/E |Dm Dm/C | |G G/F |Em7 G/D |C F |G - F/A G/B | |C G/B |Am Am/G |F C/E |Dm Dm/C | She said, there is no reason and the truth is plain to see |G G/F |Em7 G/D | But I wandered through my playing cards |C G/B |Am Am/G |F C/E |Dm Dm/C | And would not let her be, one of sixteen vestal virgins |G G/F |Em7 G/D | Who were leaving for the coast |C G/B |Am Am/G |F C/E |Dm G | And although my eyes were open, they might have just as well've been closed, and so it |C G/B |Am Am/G |F C/E |Dm Dm/C | was that later, as the miller told his tale |G G/F |Em7 G/D |C F |C G | That her face, at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale |C G/B |Am Am/G |F C/E |Dm Dm/C | |G G/F |Em7 G/D |C F |G |