ABBA – Slipping Through My Fingers (Ukulele)

Capo 3
Key
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Chords

[Verse 1]
G               Gm
Schoolbag in hand

            D           F#m
She leaves home in the early morning

G       Gm
Waving goodbye

        D               F#m
With an absent-minded smile

G           Gm
I watch her go

        D               F#m
With a surge of that well-known sadness

G               A               Dsus4    D
And I have to sit down for a while

    G                 A            D    F#
The feeling that I'm losing her forever

G                       A          D
And without really entering her world

G                  A                    D           A           Dsus4   D
I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter, that funny little girl
[Chorus]
                       G               D
Slipping through my fingers all the time

          F#m   Em
I try to capture every minute

            D
The feeling in it

                        A               Dsus4   D
Slipping through my fingers all the time

                G               D
Do I really see what's in her mind

                F#m             Em
Each time I think I'm close to knowing

                D
She keeps on growing

                        A               Dsus4   D
Slipping through my fingers all the time
[Verse 2]
G               Gm
Sleep in our eyes

        D       F#m
Her and me at the breakfast table

G       Gm
Barely awake

D                       F#m
I let precious time go by

G               Gm
Then when she's gone

                D       F#m
There's that odd melancholy feeling

G               A               Dsus4   D
And a sense of guilt I can't deny

        G               A       D
What happened to the wonderful adventures

        G       A                   D
The places I had planned for us to go (slipping through my fingers all the time)

G                       A
Well some of that we did

                D
But most we didn't

A                       Dsus4   D
And why I just don't know
[Chorus]
                     G               D
Slipping through my fingers all the time

          F#m   Em
I try to capture every minute

            D
The feeling in it

                        A               Dsus4   D
Slipping through my fingers all the time

                G               D
Do I really see what's in her mind

                F#m             Em
Each time I think I'm close to knowing

                D
She keeps on growing

                        A               Dsus4   D
Slipping through my fingers all the time

G                       A                       D       F#
Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

G                       A               D
And save it from the funny tricks of time

G                       A
Slipping through my fingers

G               Gm
Schoolbag in hand

D                       F#m
She leaves home in the early morning

G       Gm              D               F#m
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile