Sting – Practical Arrangement Duet (Guitar)

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Fmaj13 x87780 (For a more compact voicing you could omit the top E in the Fmaj13 shape and just play F6/9 x8778x, or use Fmaj9 x8798x) [Verse I] (Male voice)
     Am9
Am I asking for the moon?

      Fmaj9                   Fmaj13    
Is it really so implausible?

Dm7                  Dm7/F  G7
That you and I could soon

        Cmaj7                     E7sus4  E7
Come to some kind of arrangement?

        Am9
I'm not asking for the moon

      Fmaj9                   Fmaj13    
I've always been a realist

          Dm9                 Dm9/F  G7
When it's really nothing more

       Cmaj7                 E7sus4  E7
Than a simple rearrangement

         Am                    B7sus4 B7
With one roof above our heads

Em                        EmMaj7 Em7
A warm house to return to

         Dm7                       Dm7/F  G7
We could start with separate beds

        Cmaj7                    E7sus4  E7
I could sleep alone or learn to
Am I'm not suggesting that we'd find
Am7          F#m7b5      Fmaj7
Some earthly paradise forever

           Bbmaj7                     Bm7b5
I mean how often does that happen now

Esus4                       E
The answer's probably never
[Chorus]
             Am9
But we could come to an arrangement

Dm9
A practical arrangement

B9sus4                 Bbmaj7
And you could learn to love me

      Am9      Dm7  E7
Given time
[Verse II] (Female voice)
        Am9
Well, I like my independence

      Fmaj9                   Fmaj13    
I get by, I'm not greedy

       Dm7                    Dm7/F  G7
Do you see yourself as Galahad

     Cmaj7            E7sus4  E7
Do I really look that needy?

            Am9
I brought a child up on my own

      Fmaj9                   Fmaj13    
It takes me all my strength to face him

Dm7                     Dm7/F  G7
The father often left me

            Cmaj7                    E7sus4  E7
and I'm not desperate to replace him

     Am                    B7sus4  B7
Tell me what kind of catch

     Em                        EmMaj7  Em7
Is a struggling single mother

  Dm7                Dm7/F   G7
I respect you, and I like you

      Cmaj7           E7sus4  E7
But I won't accept another

      Am                Am7
Empty promise when some gray and stormy

F#m7b5          Fmaj7
raincloud hangs above me

           Bbmaj7                        Bm7b5
Well, I've heard it all a hundred times

       Esus4           E
from a man who said he loved me
[Chorus]
             Am9
But we could come to an arrangement

Dm7
A practical arrangement

        B9sus4            Bbmaj7
then perhaps I'd learn to love you

      Esus4   E
Given time
[Verse III] (Male voice)
        Am9
I'm not promising the moon

      Fmaj9                   Fmaj13    
I'm not promising a rainbow

       Dm7                Dm7/F  G7
Just a practical solution

     Cmaj7         E7sus4  E7
To a solitary life

         Am9
I'd be a father to your boy

      Fmaj9                   Fmaj13    
A shoulder you could lean on

Dm7                 Dm7/F  G7
How bad could it be

Cmaj7           E7sus4  E7
To be my wife?

         Am                    B7sus4  B7
With one roof above our heads

Em                        EmMaj7  Em7
A warm house to return to

Dm7                              Dm7/F  G7
You wouldn't have to cook for me

Cmaj7                         E7sus4  E7
You wouldn't have to learn to

  Am                Am7
I'm not suggesting that this proposition here

F#m7b5        Fmaj7
Could last forever

Bbmaj7                             Bm7b5
I've no intention of deceiving you

Esus4                 E
You're far too clever
[Chorus]
             Am9
But we could come to an arrangement

Dm7
A practical arrangement

       B9sus4              Bbmaj7
And perhaps you'd learn to love me

      Esus4   E
Given time

   Am             Am7
It may not be the romance

         F#m7b5  Fmaj7
That you had in mind

B9sus4                 Bbmaj7
But you could learn to love me

      Asus2
Given time