Lady Eleanor             Alan Hull (Lindisfarne)

Tuning: Standard EADGBE

Playing:  Bar chords, E shapes:
  Bm = Em bar 7
  G  = E bar 3
  A  = E bar 5

Intro: alternating Em, Bm


Verse 1:

Em                             Bm
Bashee-playing magician sitting lotus on the floor
Em                            Bm
Belly-dancing beauty with her power-driven saw
Em                                 Bm
Had my share of nightmares, didn't think it could be much more
     G                  A              Bm   .   .   .  <- fade 
When in walked Roderick Usher with the Lady Eleanor.


Verse 2:

She tied my eyes with a ribbon of a silken ghostly thread,
I gazed with troubled vision on an old four-poster bed
Where Eleanor had risen to kiss the neck below my head
And bid me come along with her to the land of the dancing dead,


Chorus:

         G    A               Bm
But it's al - right, Lady Eleanor,
G    A               Bm
Al - right, Lady Eleanor,
G     A             E   Esus4  E  Esus4
I'm alright where I am.

[ a bit of tab (bass-line):

e--------|--------|
B--------|--------|
G--------|--------|
D----2---|----9---|
A---2-2--|---9-9--|
E0-----0-|7-----7-|
       slide
tab ends]


Verse 3:

She gazed with a loving beauty, like a mother to a son,
Like a living, dying, seeing being, and all rolled into one,
Then all at once I heard some music playing in my bones,
The same old song I'd heard for years, reminding me of home,


Chorus, [tab].


Verse 4:

Then creeping on towards me licking lips with tongues of fire
A host of golden demons screaming "Lust!" and "Base desire!"
And when it seemed for certain that their screams could get no higher
I heard a voice above the rest, screaming "You're a liar!"


But it's alright, Lady Eleanor,
Alright, Lady Eleanor,
G     A                  Em     Bm    Em    Bm
I'm alright here in your arms....


from john johnson <johnj@netvigator.com>:
apparently Alan wrote most of his early songs on a 2 week acid trip
working as a nurse in a mental hospital.


from Keith Fawcett <kfawcett@edge.net>:

...  I have never quite figured out the mandolin work either.  It
was played by Ray Jackson and he used to play in a local band when
Lindisfarne were not doing anything.  Aside from being a great musician
Ray also does an amazing impersonation of a double decker bus using a
microphone.  Also, Alan Hull did write the music.  I think he wrote most
of Lindisfarne's music. Just in case you are curious, Lindisfarne is a
small island off the coast of north - eastern England.
...
         G   A      Dma7  Gma7
But it's all right, Lady  Eleanore
G   A      Dma7  Gma7
All right, Lady  Eleanor,
...

Chords:  Dma7  	E  2	Gma7	E  2
		B  2		B  3
		G  2		G  4
		D  4		D  5
		A  5		A  X
		E  X		E  X
...
In case you want it, the music is published by Hazy Music (p/o EMI) at
138-140 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0LD.  My copy is dated 1971 so
it may not still be in print.

and later:
...
The music says the ending is

D       A7                 E
I'm all right here in your arms

This is not how the song ends though.  Change the last chord to G then
strum that about two bars then change to D for another two bars.  Play
this several times.  I'm pretty sure these are the chords but it's hard
to tell as they are using a capo.  There is also a bass line that starts
on the note D, slides up to G (while strumming G), then up to A then D
(while strumming D).  Theres also some mandolin strumming which I don't
know how to play.  Sorry I don't know how to describe it better.

Keith.

From "John.L.Masterman" <100747.1702@CompuServe.COM>:
...
The basis for this song was the Fall of the House of Usher, an old horror film
starring Vincent Price, from and even older story by Edgar Allen Poe.
...