Al Stewart – Rumours Of War (Guitar)

Em
We met on the beach amid rumours of war

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Your head in your hand, what you saw you won't say

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As the newspapers flew in the wind

Em
I can see you're one of that kind

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Who carry around a time bomb in their mind, no one knows

G                    D  Dsus4 D
When you'll slip the pin

D          Am              Em
Rumours of war, rumours of war

Em
I see that your dress is torn at the edge

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You were lost intense, like a man on a ledge, waiting to jump

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As the waves break over the shore

Em
You say there's a storm that can't be delayed

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And lately it seems to be comin' this way, you can hear it break

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Like the slam of a door

D          Am              Em
Rumours of war, rumours of war

Em
You tell me, just look all around

C
At the past and the present, the cross and the crescent

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The signs and the planets are lining up like before

Em
There are souls on fire in the day and the night

C
On the left and the right, in the black and the white

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You can see it burn in the eyes of the rich and the poor

D          Am              Em
Rumours of war, rumours of war

D          Am              Em
Rumours of war, rumours of war