BPM: 100
Released: 1991
Album: Slim Dusty Sings Joy McKean
Note: Also worked out the lyrics for this song as they were not
available on the internet.
If any corrections please let me know and I will correct. Thanks.
Capo: 1 fret
Intro
N.C.
Here we go
[D] [A] [D]
Verse 1
[D] [E7]
Well they’re sitting in the front row once again,
[G] [A] [D] [D]
They were there last year when hardly no one came,
[D]
And when we were trying hard,
[E7]
To make the people understand,
[F#]
They were singing right along,
[G] [A]
Giving us a hand . . .,
[A] [D] [D]
From the front row.
Verse 2
[D] [E7]
Everybody else was wearing easy kinda clothes,
[G] [A] [D] [D]
She wore silk and him a velvet coat,
[D] [D]
Which made us feel like we were special,
[E7]
In a special show,
[F#] [G] [A]
Didn’t have to say a word, just let us know,
[D]
From the front row.
Chorus
[G] [A]
And the faces in the front row,
[D]
Come from every walk of life,
[G] [A] [D] [D7]
Each one has a story to tell,
[G] [A]
They don’t know that from the stage,
[D] [Bm]
I see them all so clear,
[E] [A]
Sometimes I can read their thoughts as well.
[D]
Well their faces are transparent,
[E7]
When the listen to your song,
[G] [A] [D]
Their mind the years away, for now their free.
[D]
From the ordinary body,
[E7]
In the ordinary chair,
[F#]
They’re up with you in the floodlights,
[G] [A]
No longer sitting there,
[D]
In the front row.
Instrumental
[G] [A] [D] [Bm]
[E7] [A]
Verse 3
[D]
The quiet little man,
[E7]
Who often came through mud and rain,
[G] [A] [D]
He was late, the old cart took the blame,
[D]
But he nearly always made it,
[E7]
He never would be beat,
[F#]
Until this year got beyond him,
[G] [A]
And I see an empty seat . . .,
[D]
In the front row.
Outro
[G] [A]
And the faces in the front row,
[D]
Come from every walk of life,
[G] [A] [D] [D7]
Each one has a story to tell,
[G] [A]
They don’t know that from the stage,
[D] [Bm]
I see them all so clear,
[E] [A]
Sometimes I can read their thoughts as well.
[D]
Well their faces are transparent,
[E7]
When the listen to your song,
[G] [A] [D]
Their mind the years away, for now their free.
[D]
From the ordinary body,
[E7]
In the ordinary chair,
[F#]
They’re up with you in the floodlights,
[G] [A]
No longer sitting there,
[D]
In the front row,
[D] [D]
In the front row.
