Biography:
Eric Andersen (born 14 February 1943 in Pittsburgh) is an American folk music singer-songwriter, who has written songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead and many others. Early in his career, in the 1960s, he was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene. After two decades and sixteen albums of solo performance he became a member of the group Danko/Fjeld/Andersen.
Andersen belonged, in the early sixties, together with Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan, to the Greenwich Village folkscene in New York.
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[Intro]
D D/F# G A
D
I saw you travellin in the north
Your smile so clean and young
G D
Standing tall and green and slender like a sunflower on the sun
D
We walked up to each other
You handed me a flower
G A
You asked me would I stay with you for a lifetime or an hour
D G D A Bm
Sudden love a sudden spark a memory burns
G D A D
The fire starts you stopped the dark
G D
When you came in sight
A G D G Em
You cut the darkness into light
D
Then one day it happened love plays its little game
G D
The air was green with jealousy it was the month of May
D
We hired out every extra to even up the cast
G A
I saw the curtain fallin down right across my past
D G D A
Sudden love can fall apart
Bm G D A D
When shadows fall across a heart you blew out the flame
G D A G D G D
When I turned to part you cut the light into the dark
D
If it ever comes one is left behind
G D
Always the let the fact be known love is sometimes kind
D
Don't forget about the girl in the long blue dress
G
And the man who sang his song
A
That day that day when love was blessed
D G D A Bm G D A
Sudden love a sudden spark a memory flares up in the stars
D G D
You took the dark when you came in sight
A G D G
You cut the darkness into light
D A G D
You cut the darkness into light
D D/F# G A
D
I saw you travellin in the north
Your smile so clean and young
G D
Standing tall and green and slender like a sunflower on the sun
D
We walked up to each other
You handed me a flower
G A
You asked me would I stay with you for a lifetime or an hour
D G D A Bm
Sudden love a sudden spark a memory burns
G D A D
The fire starts you stopped the dark
G D
When you came in sight
A G D G Em
You cut the darkness into light
D
Then one day it happened love plays its little game
G D
The air was green with jealousy it was the month of May
D
We hired out every extra to even up the cast
G A
I saw the curtain fallin down right across my past
D G D A
Sudden love can fall apart
Bm G D A D
When shadows fall across a heart you blew out the flame
G D A G D G D
When I turned to part you cut the light into the dark
D
If it ever comes one is left behind
G D
Always the let the fact be known love is sometimes kind
D
Don't forget about the girl in the long blue dress
G
And the man who sang his song
A
That day that day when love was blessed
D G D A Bm G D A
Sudden love a sudden spark a memory flares up in the stars
D G D
You took the dark when you came in sight
A G D G
You cut the darkness into light
D A G D
You cut the darkness into light
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