Belle and Sebastian – Read The Blessed Page (Guitar)

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Love and pain and sorrow

         D/G*   D/A*  D
Keep the band together

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She was like my soulmate

          D/G*  D/A*  D
Whispered in my ear

Em
Love was playing music

       Em/G*  Em/F#*  F#m
It was all we wanted

Em
Making plastic records

       Em/G* D
Of our histo-ry

D
How I knew it mattered

     D/G*    D/A*  D
To a certain person

D
Heard the boy in London

           D/G*     D/A*  D
Called out from the crowd

Em
Said something that echoes

      Em/G*     Em/F#*  F#m
To me ten years later

Em
Wishing that he still called

        Em/G*       D
Like he called that night

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G|------7-------------|-------------------9-|7-7-7--------------------|
D|9-9-9---------------|---------------------|-------------------------|
A|--------------------|---------------------|-------------------------|
E|--------------------|---------------------|-------------------------| (flute)

  D     A              Em                                A                     Bm
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D|--------------------|--------------------------------------9---7----|---7--8-|9----|
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E|--------------------|-----------------------------------------------|--------|-----| (flute)

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A|--------------------|-----------------4-3-4-------4-2-0------------|--------|------|
E|--------------------|----------------------------------------------|--------|------| (guitar)

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B|---------10-10------|8-7-8-10-12-10-8-7-------7-8-7------------------|--------|-----|
G|--------------------|-------------------9-8-9-------9-7-6-7---6------|--------|-----|
D|--------------------|-----------------0---------------------9---7----|---7--8-|9----|
A|--------------------|7-6-7-9--10-9--7---------5-7-5-----0------------|--------|-----|
E|--------------------|-------------------9-8-9-------9-7--------------|--------|-----| (or: flute + guitar)

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Pulling songs from thin air

        D/G*       D/A*   D
Pulling songs from bridges

D
Smell the air in small towns

          D/G*       D/A*  D
Where the train line stops

Em
Ever will I love you

         Em/G*     Em/F#*  F#m
Now your chapter's over

Em
Ever will I love you

         Em/G*   D
You were good to me

D
Now a pain in memory

     D/G*       D/A*  D
Is a cherished story

D
Moan about the present

    D/G*     D/A*  D
Venerate the past

Em
Love is like a novel

         Em/G*   Em/F#*  F#m
Read the blessed pages

Em
Did I do my best dear?

        Em/G*   D
That is all you ask