title:  Beside You
album:  Astral Weeks (1968)
Artist: Van Morrison

Tabbed by Dan Koschalka

Beside You
 
Intro: Em  D  Em C Em Am  D
 
Em         D                
      Little Jimmy's gone
Em                        C                             
      Away out of the backstreets
Em
      Out of the window
Am
      To the fog and rain
D
      Right on time
                Em
Right on time

That's why Broken Arrow
                                       C                                                  
Waved his finger down the road so dark and narrow
              Em 
In the eve -  nin'
C                  D
      Just before the Sunday six-bells chime, six-bells chime
Em                  Bm
      And all the dogs are barkin'
Em                            C                                                 Em    
       Way out on the diamond-studded highway where you wander
Am                               D   
       And you roam from your retreat and view
Em        Bm                          Em       
       Way     over on the railroad
               C                                              Em
Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together
C                              D    
       Every scrapbook    stuck with glue
                       Em   
And I'll stand beside you
Bm      Em    C       Em     Am                   
       Besi - de     yo - u chi - ld
D
       To never never never wonder why at all
G
No no no no no no no no
C                                                      G
       To never never wonder why at all
                                         Am                        D   
To never never never wonder wh - y it's gotta be
  Em  
It has to be

Way across the country where the hillside mountain glide
The dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child to wander
Past your window with a lantern lit
You held it in the doorway and you kissed against the pointed island breeze
Said your time was open, go well on your merry way
Past the brazen footsteps of the silence easy

You breathe in you breathe out you breathe in you breathe out you breath in
you breathe out you breathe in you breathe out

And you're high on your high-flyin' cloud
Wrapped up in your magic shroud as ecstasy surrounds you
This time it's found you

You turn around you turn around you turn around you turn around
And I'm beside you
Beside you
Oh darlin'
To never never wonder why at all

No no no no no
To never never never wonder why at all
To never never never wonder why it's gotta be
It has to be

And I'm beside you
Beside you
Oh child
To never never wonder why at all
I'm beside you
Beside you
Beside you
Beside you
Oh child