Camera Obscura – Other Towns And Cities (Guitar Tab)

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Chords

Use pared down E-shape barre chords - like the shape of an F chord fingered xx3211, moved to different frets. For the transition into the chorus, use a pared down Em-shape, like xx3111. Shuffle the rhythm.
[Intro] x4
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[Verse 1]
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Drinking whiskey reminds me of you / You're the
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        first     in        ages               to have gotten through /   I 

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know you mean well, yes I know that you do / But
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sooner or later you're going to break me in two. Were my
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pupils dilated? Could you tell that I liked you?
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We were so unlikely / You
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flirt with an ex, put me to the test / Oh, and
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still I wanna tell you that I love you the best.
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We turned [Verse 2]
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the radiators on and there was no way back / Did
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you know you had the Plough star trail on your back? / Your
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voice is quiet but I need it loud / In
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the night you went up and in the morning you went down / It's
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like you to forbid me to say goodnight / I had
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your brown eyes and limbs on me through the night / These
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words are weak and to your dislike / But you'll
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never believe them so I guess it's alright.
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Do you [Chorus]
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like the view I
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show you? / I
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say look at the
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light /
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Do you still miss the way that I
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      hold  you? /                     Oh,           in   other    towns 

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and cities, who's holding you tonight?
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The [Verse 3]
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dresses came out of the bag, then the tears came / And
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drinking's never been the same again / I
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shared your trouble, I shared your weight / I
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lost it with you today / We
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don't share a birthday, we do share a sign / And we
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shared something, or was it in my mind? / There was
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talk of love and how I need it back / I'll be
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better for you than that last love of
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mine.
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Do you [Chorus]
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like the view I
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show you? / I
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say look at the
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light /
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Do you still miss the way that I
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      hold  you? /                     Oh,           in   other    towns 

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and cities, who's holding you tonight?
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You're in another town or
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city / You mean nothing to me tonight.
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