Macarthur Park  by Richard Harris

MacArthur Park chords  Jim Webb / Richard Harris *


Dm Dm  Eb  Gm


Dm                               F
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
                 Eb
It ran one step ahead
                      Gm Gm Bb G# Gm
As we followed in the dance
Dm                                F

Between the parted pages and were pressed,

                       Eb

In love's hot, fevered iron

                       Gm Gm Bb G# Gm

Like a striped pair of pants

 

   C                             Cmaj7

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark

                           C11

All the sweet, green icing flowing down...

F                                Fmaj7

Someone left the cake out in the rain

            C

and I don't think that I can take it

          Dm7

'cause it took so long to bake it

         C               Cmaj7   C

and I'll never have that recipe again

    Eb

Oh, no!

 

Dm                         F

I recall the yellow cotton dress

               Eb

foaming like a wave

                          Gm Gm Bb G# Gm

on the ground around your knees

    Dm                                F

The birds, like tender babies in your hands

                        Eb              Gm Gm Bb G# Gm

and the old men playing checkers by the trees

 

   C                             Cmaj7

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark

                           C11

All the sweet, green icing flowing down...

F                                Fmaj7

Someone left the cake out in the rain

            C

and I don't think that I can take it

          Dm7

'cause it took so long to bake it

         C               Cmaj7   C

and I'll never have that recipe again

    Eb

Oh, no!

 

F                              Fmaj7

There will be another song for me

           Bb         Gm7

For I will sing it

Gm7                             C7

There will be another dream for me

             Fmaj7 F

Someone will bring it

        Bb                        Gm

I will drink the wine while it is warm

    Am                                    D7

and never let you catch me looking at the sun

    Gm                        C11

And after all the loves of my life

Fmaj7         F           Bb

after all the loves of my life

                    Eb    C11

You'll still be the one.

 

       F                    Fmaj7

I will take my life into my hands

           Bb       Gm7

and I will use it

Gm7                              C7

I will win the worship in their eyes

           Fmaj7 F

and I will lose  it

Bb                              Gm

I will have the things that I desire

       Am                                   D7

and my passion flow like rivers through the sky.

    Gm                        C11

And after all the loves of my life

Fmaj7         F           Bb

After all the loves of my life

                    Eb

I'll be thinking of you

              Dm

and wondering why.

 

F                 Bb             Fmaj7

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark

                           F       F7

All the sweet, green icing flowing down...

Bb

Someone left the cake out in the rain

            Dm

and I don't think that I can take it

 

'cause it took so long to bake it

         G7                      Bbm

and I'll never have that recipe again

   F    C11     G#

Oh, no!      Oh no  

 

* Alternate:

 

Capo III

 

Dm    = Bm

Eb    = C

Gm    = Em

F     = D

Bb    = G

Cmaj7 = Amaj7

C     = A

F7    = D7

Am    = F#m

Fmaj7 = Dmaj7

G7    = E7

Bbm   = Gm