Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:42:52 +0000
From: <LSMakow (at) WLRK dot com>
Subject: pale & precious
Message-ID: <4376D7C0FCF953428CBCEE3A5620E8AA5CC985F2 (at) EXMBXNJ01 dot wlrk dot com>

I was messing around with "Pale and Precious" and found the contribution on
Chalkhills, while very well done and very helpful, to be a tad inscrutable
in spots, at least to a keyboard player.

So I notated out the intro (attached as an image file).

Also offering what I think are some slightly more accurate chord changes:

    Ab                                    Abmaj7
If all of her moments were put down in a book
                   Bb7                  Eb7sus4               Ab
Then I could read it 'til I went blind

...     ...

Cm                           F
   Don't care what the others might say
    Bb7                                     Eb7sus4
As far as I'm concerned they can all fall apart
           F        G                    A7                  Bb+
Fade away uh huh fade away,   fade away uh huh

...     ...

(the first four chords really isn't a series of separate chords as written,
but just the bass note walking down under a static C#)

C#    C#/C          C#/Bb
  The smell of the pinecones
C#/Ab     F#+9        G#7sus4
And    the sea in her hair
F#+9          G#7sus4
Silver           Gentle

Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:35:00 +0000
From: Tim Harris <wordsrus (at) wordsrus dot demon dot co dot uk>
Subject: chords to Pale & Precious
Message-ID: <Z8uNAGAERmi2EwxK (at) wordsrus dot demon dot co dot uk>


Pale and Precious

the (maj7)(sus4)s are just an indication of what seems to be going on in
the opening phrase -
anyone trained to name chords properly can sort out the ones where
keyboard actuality and self-taught guitar limitations collide!
Happy New Year


Bb (maj7) (sus4)  Eb   F   Gsus4 G

C (maj7) (sus4)             G
So pale and precious is the light that will shine
Ebdim      Gsus4   G
Out of the windows in her head
C  (maj7) (sus4)              G
So pale and precious like the sun as it climbs
Ebdim    Gsus4   G      Ab   Cm7/Ab
Up every morning on her bed
   Ab                          Cm7/Ab
If all of her moments were put down in a book
             Bb                  Eb     Ab
Then I could read it 'til I went blind
                                     Cm7/Ab
If all of the tears she cried flowed into a brook
              Bb                       Eb
Well than I'm sure it would taste like wine
Cm7                 F
Don't care what the others might say
   Bm                            Eb
As far as I'm concerned they can all fall apart
      F     G     A7    Eb+
Fade away

So pale and precious is the light that will shine

Out of her perfumed golden hair

So pale and precious are the steps that I climb

Up to her room so bright and bare

If all of the things she said were flowers and tress

Well then her garden would always be green

If all of our time together fell on one day

It would be like every Christmas there's been

Don't care what the others might say

As far as I'm concerned they can all fall apart
        F     G    A7    D+
Fade Away

B           E         F#            (pattern repeats)
Up she rises each and every morning

She blows the stars out of the sky

And lights the sun with her bright eyes

C#       F#      Ab  (rpts over instrumental to..)
C#       F#

C# (maj7) (sus4)            Ab
So pale and precious is the light that will shine
Edim       Absus4     Ab  C#
Out of the windows in her head
C# (maj7) (sus4)              Ab
So pale and precious like the sun as it climbs
Edim    Absus4   Ab
Up every morning on her bed

C#   Cm+         Bbm
The smell of the pinecones
Bbm/Ab     F#         Fm+
And    the sea in her hair
Eb7sus4(no5th)   Absus4(+6)  Ab
Silver           Gen.........tle
--
Tim Harris