12 October 2021

Up by the Wye 9-10 May 2010

Words and music by Richard Homer 

4/4 93 bpm Intro Em Am Bm B Em 


Em Am Bm Em 

thinking / back when / you were / here 

Em Am Bm Em 

yellow / leaf of / autumn / tear 

Am Em

the Talgarth bluff, / kite up high

Am Em Bm Em 

oxbow / water / of the / Wye 

Am Em Am Em

oh / yeah, oh / yeah 


the / goodbye dinner, / the Llyswen / inn

taut / emotion / bite / within

empty sofa, now / no books there

your rusting / bike in / cobweb / care 

oh / yeah, oh / yeah 


he’s / still / there, keeps / going / on

thinking / of a / time now / gone

armchair concert, / autumn walk 

I ring from / time to / time to / talk

oh / yeah, oh / yeah 


Ch 

Am Bm, Am Bm 

Up by the / Wye, up by the / Wye 

Am Em 

where we had a / last goodbye 

a hug, a kiss, the / last goodbye 

Am Em Bm Em 

on the / porch of the / house by the / Wye 

Am G Em, Am G Em, Bm B Em 


Extra 

Bm Am G 

going / back in / time 

Bm Am G 

going / back in / time 

B flat A flat G 

when / you were / here 

B flat G B flat G 

were / here, were / here 

Bm B Em 


Ending Em Am Bm B Em