a-ha – Manhattan Skyline (Guitar)

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[Intro] F
F
We sit and watch umbrelas fly,

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I'm trying to keep my Newspaper dry.

  F                   Dm                       Bbmaj7
I hear myself say "My boats leaving now" so we shake hands and cry

C/E        Dm             F              Dm
Now I must wave good-bye, wave good-bye, wave good-bye,

F              Bb
wave good-bye, wave good-bye,

G                       Dm
wave good-bye. You know

                 F         Bb   C             Gm       Dm
I don't wan't to cry again.   I don't want to cry again.

                F            Bb  C             G        Dm
I don't want to say good-bye,  I don't want to cry again,

                 F        Bb
I don't want to run away,

  C             Gm            Dm                     F          Bb     C
I don't want to race this pain,  I'll never see your face again.

Gm     Dm  F Gm             C      A/C#      Dm
Oh but how,  how can you say  that I  didn't try,

Gm       Dm   F       Gm               C
You see things in the depths of my eyes

A/C#              Dm    Gm
That my love's run dry, no

F
We leave to their goodbyes

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I've come to depend on the look in their eyes

   F
My blood's sweet for pain

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The wind and the rain bring back words of a song

C/E          Dm
And they say wave goodbye

F             Dm
Wave goodbye,wave good-bye,

F              Bb
wave good-bye, wave good-bye,

G
wave good-bye.

            Dm
But you know

                F          Bb C             Gm            Dm
I don't want to fall again    Don't want to know this pain

           F             Bb C             Gm        Dm
Don't want another friend   Don't want to try again

              F           Bb C            Gm          Dm
Don't want to see you hurt   Don't let me see you hurt

                F        Bb      C              Gm        Dm
I don't want to cry again   I'll never see your face again
F Bb C Gm
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How can you say  that I  didn't try,

A/C#       Dm
You know I did

Gm       Dm    F       Gm           C
You see things  in the depths of my eyes

A/C#              Dm
That my love's run dry

   C             G       F
I don't want to cry again

F
So I read to myself

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A chance of a lifetime to see new horizons

F                  Dm
On the front page a black and white picture of

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Manhattan Skyline