Cyprus Avenue chords by Van Morrison

Intro:
G  C/G  G  D x2

Verse 1:

     G          C/G        G  C/G  G
Well, I'm caught one more time, up on Cyprus Avenue

C/G                G     C/G  G
  Caught one more time, up on Cyprus Avenue

D                 C/G
  And I'm conquered in a car seat

         G    C/G  G  D
Not a thing that I can do

Verse 2:

G      G7  C/G      G         C/G  G
  I may go crazy, before that mansion on the hill

C/G       G  C/G        G
  I may go crazy, before that mansion on the hill

D               C/G
  But my heart keeps beating faster

G C/G        G     D
  And my feet can't keep still

Verse 3:

G                   C/G      G         C/G  G
  And all the little girls rhyme something, on the way back home from school

C/G                             G       C/G  G
  And all the little girls rhyme something, on the way back home from school

D              C/G
  And the leaves fall one by one

           G     C/G  G  D
And call the autumn time a fool

Verse 4:

G             C/G  G          C/G        G
  Yeah, my t-tongue gets tied, every, every, every time I try to speak

C/G           G       C/G    G
  My tongue gets tied, every time I try to speak

D      D7 C/G
  And my inside shakes

             G  C/G  G  D
Just like a leaf on a tree

Verse 5:

       G      C/G             G  C/G  G
I think I'll go on by the river with my cherry, cherry wine

         C/G                       G C/G G
I believe I'll go walking by the railroad with my cherry, cherry wine

   D             C/G
If I pass the rumbling station

                 G  C/G G       D
where the lonesome engine drivers pine,  wait a minute,

Verse 6:

       G   C/G     G C/G   G
yonder come my lady, rainbow ribbons in her hair

   C/G                  G  C/G G
Yonder come my lady, rainbow ribbons in her hair

     D          D7  C/G
Six white horses and a carriage

               G C/G   G           D
She's returning from the fair, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby

Verse 7:

   G          C/G        G   C/G G
Well, I'm caught one more time, up on Cyprus Avenue  Oh, Yes I am

C/G                  G      C/G  G
  Love, Caught one more time, up on Cyprus Avenue

D                 C/G
  And I'm conquered in a car seat

          G      C/G  G  D
And I'm looking straight at you

Outro:

    G C/G    G C/G
Way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on

G                      C/G                  G
way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on

C/G     G      C/G G C/G G      C/G
   The avenue of trees       keep walking down

C/G G          C/G     G
   In the wind and the rain, darling

        C/G         G           C/G  G
You keep walking down when the sun shone through the trees

 C/G G      C/G    G
Nobody, no, no, no, no, nobody

C/G            G  C/G  G
 Stops me from loving you baby

       C/G G   C/G G    C/G  G
So young and bold, fourteen-year old

C/G
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby

G  C/G
  Ooo ooo ooo  (fade)