SLAINTE MHATH (Marillion)

CAPO: 3

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F#m E (4 x)

[D] 6x
[D]
hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravado
carbon trail scores a moist stretched palm

Trapped in the indecision of another fine menu

And you sit there and ask me to tell you the story so far /

This is the story so far

Shuffling your memories dealing your doodles in margins

You scrawl out your poems across a beer mat or two
And when you declare the point of grave creation
They turn round and you to tell them the story so far /

This is the story so far

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D
G
And you listen with a tear in your eye
A
D
G
To their hopes and betrayels and your only reply

/ is Slainte mhath.

[D] 2x
[D]
Princes in exile raising the standard rambuie
Parading their anecdotes tired from old campaigns
Holding their own last orders commanding attention
We sit here and listen to all of the story so far /
This is the story so far
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G
Am
Take it away Take it away Take it away
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G
Take it away, take it away Take it a way, take it away
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G D
A G D
Take me away!
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G D
From the dream on a the barbed wire at Flanders and Bil...ston Glen
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G
D
From a Clydeside that rusts from the tears of its broken men
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G D
From the realisation that we've been left be...hind
A
G D
Is to stand like our fathers before us in the fi....ring line

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Waiting

G D
on the whistle to blow
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G D
We stand here waiting on the whistle to blow
A
G
D
They promised us miracles, and the whistle still blows
A
G D
Broken promises but the whistle still blows
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G D
Waiting on the whistle to blow
A
G D
We stand here waiting on the whistle to blow
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Em

A G
Em
D
on the whistle to blow