White Room - Cream

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                White Room – Cream
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Written by: Jack Bruce / Pete Brown
From: “Wheels of Fire” (1968)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

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CHORDS
         E-A-D
G/B      x-2-0
F/C      x-3-x

-G-B-e
-0-0-3
-2-1-1

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[Intro] time signature: 5/4
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  4/4

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[Verse 1]
            
In a white roo

            
m with black c

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urtains near t

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he station
            
Black roof cou

            
ntry, no gold 

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pavements, tir

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ed starlings
           
Silver horses 

           
ran down moonb

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eams in your d

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ark eyes
            
Dawn light smi

          
les on you lea

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ving, my conte

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ntment


[Middle 8]
             
I'll wait in t

             
his place wher

            
e the sun neve

  
r shines     |

 1 + 2 + 3 + 4

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Wait in this p

              
lace where the

           
 shadows run f

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rom themselves

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      (break)


[Verse 2]
            
You said no st

             
rings could se

        
cure you at th

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e station
            
Platform ticke

            
t, restless di

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esels, goodbye

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 windows
           
I walked into 

           
such a sad tim

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e at the stati

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on
            
As I walked ou

          
t, felt my own

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 need just beg

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inning


[Middle 8]
             
I'll wait in t

             
he queue when 

            
the trains com

  
e back
            
Lie with you w

            
here the shado

             
ws run from th

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emselves


[Interlude] time signature: 5/4
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  4/4

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[Verse 3]
           
At the party s

           
he was kindnes

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s in the hard 

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crowd
           
Consolation fo

           
r the old woun

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d now forgotte

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n
           
Yellow tigers 

            
crouched in ju

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ngles in her d

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ark eyes
            
She's just dre

             
ssing, goodbye

        
 windows, tire

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d starlings


[Middle 8]
             
I'll sleep in 

             
this place wit

           
h the lonely c

rowd
            
Lie in the dar

            
k where the sh

             
adows run from

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 themselves


[Interlude] time signature: 5/4
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  freely

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[Outro] solo
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(fade out over

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 last bars)

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