Tom: Am Intro: Am - G - F - F - Am - G - F - F - C - - - C Brown eyes and I were tired We had walked and we had scrambled Through the moors and through the briars Through the endless blue meanders Am G F In the blue August Moon Am G F In the cool August Moon C Over the nights and through the fires We went surging down the wires Through the towns and on the highways Through the storms in all their thundering Am G F In the blue August Moon Am G F In the cool August Moon C Then we rested in a desert Where the bones were white as teeth sir And we saw St. Elmo's fire Splitting ions in the Ether Solo over: Am - G - F - F - (4x) C - - - (4X) Am - G - F - F - (2x) Am G F In the blue August Moon Am G F In the cool August Moon Am G F In the blue August Moon Am G F In the cool August Moon Outro: C - - - Recurring riff (over C chord): e-|---7--8--7--8--7---------------| B-|---8--8--8--8--8---------------| G-|---9--9--9--9--9---------------| D-|-------------------------------| A-|-------------------------------| E-|-------------------------------|