Sade – Pearls (Guitar)

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[Intro] Gm7 F Ebmaj7 Dsus4 D7 Gm7 Gm F Ebmaj7 Dm D7 [Verse 1]
           Gm
There is a woman in Somalia

             F
Scraping for pearls on the roadside

          Eb               Ebmaj7
There's a force stronger than nature

D                 D7
Keeps her will alive

Gm
This is how she's dying

           F
She's dying to survive

Eb
Don't know what she's made of

        Dsus4       D
I would like to be that brave
[Chorus]
    Dm7          Cm7             Dm7
She cries to the heaven above

           Cm7                 Dm7
There is a stone in my heart

            Cm7                     Dm7
She lives a life she didn't choose

                  Cm7               Dm7  D7
And it hurts like brand-new shoes

                        Gm  Gm7  F  Ebmaj7  D D7
Hurts like brand-new shoes
[Verse 2]
           Gm
There is a woman in Somalia

             F
The sun gives her no mercy

    Ebmaj7
The same sky we lay under

D     Dsus4        D7
Burns her to the bone

       Gm7
Long as afternoon shadows

           F
It's gonna take her to get home

Ebmaj7
Each grain carefully wrapped up

Dsus4                  D
Pearls for her little girl
[Bridge]
     Gm       F
Hallelujah

    Ebmaj7    D5    D
Hallelujah
[Chorus]
                 Cm7            Dm7
She cries to the heaven above

           Cm7                Dm7
There is a stone in my heart

               Cm7                      Dm7
She lives in a world she didn't choose

                  Cm7               Dm
And it hurts like brand-new shoes

D7                    Gm7      F  Eb  D  D7
Hurts like brand-new shoes
Gm F Eb D Gm