Jethro Tull: White Innocence
Album: Catfish Rising
Chords: Håkan Mattsson

Compared to Bob Albrights version, I have corrected some lyrics,
my intro chords differ, and I have added some TAB. Otherwise they
are almost exactly the same (I have even used Bobs file as a template).

It's difficult to hear the picking in some places, but I think it's
something like this.

Intro: Am G F Eb Gm   Am G F Eb Gm

e!------5--------!------3--------!------1--------!------1--------!
B!----5---5------!----3---3------!----1---1------!----3---3------!
G!--5-------5---5!--3-------3---3!--2-------2---2!--0-------0---0!
D!7-----------7--!5-----------5--!3-----------3--!1-----------1--!
A!---------------!---------------!---------------!---------------!
E!---------------!---------------!---------------!---------------!
  Am              Gm              F               Eb*
       She...     festival...       didn't...  love...
 

e!----1----------!---------------!------1--------!------0--------!
B!------------3--!------3--------!----3---3------!---------------!
G!--0-------2----!---------------!--2-------2---2!----0----------!
D!1-----1-3------!----5---5------!0-----------0--!--2-----2---2--!
A!--------------0!--5-------5---5!---------------!3---------3---3!
E!---------------!3-----------3--!---------------!---------------!
  Eb*     F       Gm              Dm              C
    Just...     in a...           She...          glove...
 

e!---------------!---------------!---------------!---------------!
B!------------3--!------3-----3--!------------3--!------3-----3--!
G!----0-----0---0!--2-0---0-2---2!----0-----0---0!--2-0---0-2---2!
D!--0-----2------!0--------------!--0-----2------!0--------------!
A!1-----3--------!---------------!1-----3--------!---------------!
E!---------------!---------------!---------------!---------------!
  Bb      C       Dsus4           Bb    C         Dsus4
    Funny...     of the...        Funny...        of the young.
 

e!---------------!
B!------3-----3--!
G!--2-0---0-2---2!
D!0--------------!
A!---------------!
E!---------------!
  Dsus4
  ....
 

e!------5--------!------3..  For the rest of the song,
B!----6---6------!----3--..  the first Am is replaced by Dm.
G!--7-------7---7!--3----..  The rest is mostly the same.
D!7-----------7--!5------..
A!---------------!-------..  When strumming chords,
E!---------------!-------..  the "Eb*" could be played  EADGBe
  Dm              Gm         as Ebmaj7:                 -65333
       See how...            or even:                   -65363
 

  Am                         Gm
She drifted from some minor festival, ha.
F                                Eb*
 Didn't look like any summer of love:
 Eb*             F               Gm
Just a thousand weekend warriors   in a muddy field.
  Dm                         C
She was the hand to fit my glove.
 Bb              C                 Dsus4 (may be played as Dm instead)
Funny thing, the innocence of the lonely.
 Bb                C           Dsus4
Funny thing, the charm of the young.

 Dm                             Gm
See how she moves just like two angels, (in white innocence).
 F                         Eb*
Yet one of them is on the run.
  Eb*        F                 Gm
The other's tapping at my car window
Dm                                 C
mm, and I'm squinting through the sun
  Bb               C                      Dsus4
trying to see if she's some child of the nineties:
Bb                         C          Dsus4       Gm
or just another dangerous fantasy of mine, yeah.

Gm
White innocence, white innocence

White innocence, she was white innocence
 

Intro repeat: Am G F Eb Gm   Am G F Eb Gm
 

Dm                          Gm
A perfect hole was in her stocking:
F                                Eb*
it made a perfect window to the heart.
Eb*           F               Gm
I could have moved among her waterfalls:
Dm                         C
Her misty curtains drawn apart.
 Dm                            Gm
Did she see warm safety in my numbers
 F                            Eb*
to want to hitch a ride this way?
 Eb*             F             Gm
Felt like I was taking her to market now
 Dm                                C
to be sold as the last lot of the day.
 Bb               C               Dsus4
Funny thing, the distance of the lonely
 Bb                C           Dsus4                   Gm
Funny thing, the charm of the young. White innocence

Gm
White innocence, white innocence
                                  C    Dm
White innocence, white innocence
          Gm                      C
White innocence, white innocence
          F     Eb       Bb            Gm
White innocence,   white,    white innocence

  Dm                                 C
She pressed the button, lowered the window:
 F                               C           Gm
let her hand trail in the slipstream of the night.
F                     C
A frost from nowhere seemed to lick her fingers:
Bb                                        C      Dm
I could have warmed them, but the moment wasn't right.
 

Em    G    Em    D     D  F  Bb  Ab  Eb  Bb  Db  Ab
 

Dm                                C
Obvious, she was headed nowhere special, yeah:
 F                        C  Gm
well it was even obvious to me.
F                                 C
I was doing some, some watching, some waiting:
   Bb                    C    Dm
she'd been here before, most definitely.
 

e!------5--------!------5--------!------5--------!------3-..
B!---------------!---------------!---------------!----3---..
G!--5-7---7-5---5!--5-7---7-5---5!--5-7---7-5---5!--3-----..
D!7-----------7--!7-----------7--!7-----------7--!5-------..
A!---------------!---------------!---------------!--------..
E!---------------!---------------!---------------!--------..
  Dm                                              Gm
                                     There was..  bedtime...

  Dm                            Gm
There was the promise of early bedtime, hum.
  F                                Eb*
There was the promise of heaven on earth.
  Eb*        F                      Gm
Think I was sending out low-voltage electricity:
  Dm                                  C
Played it right down for what it was worth.
  Dm                                      Gm
She turned and looked at me in white innocence
F                                       Eb*
and with the clearest eyes of forever grey
  Eb*                 F          Gm
she rested one small hand for a second on my knee:
Dm                      C
I stopped the car. She walked away, mum.
 Bb               C             Dsus4
Funny thing, the wisdom of the lonely.
 Bb                C           Dsus4
Funny thing, the charm of the young.
                Gm
Away you go, now.

Gm
White innocence, white innocence
                                  C    Dm
White innocence, white innocence
          Gm                      C
White innocence, white innocence
          F     Eb       Bb            Gm
White innocence,   white,    white innocence

White innocence
 
 

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