The Cat Empire – No Longer There (Ukulele)

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*CAPO FIRST FRET* `= Hold for longer VERSE:
F              Dm             Dm      `
  I know you'd like to hear a song as everything's all

Dm        `              F        `
Right the temp'rature is warm the fire horses

G        `
Sleep so gently comes the
VERSE:
F         Dm                Dm        `
Night now close your eyes a-stare the ground they're on is

Dm       `              F        `
Bare but once it was as deep and wild as giant's

G           `
Dreams it's no longer
VERSE-LONG:
F         Dm            Dm          `
There and all of our de-sires could mirror skies with

Dm         `                  F         `
Flames and smoke out heaven's halls and who was that you

G              `         F    Dm
Called they're no longer there
REFRAIN:
F    `              Dm      F
  Ah-here it goes a-gain oh-here it goes a-

F    `              Dm  `
gain here it goes a-gain__
Dm ` G ` BRIDGE:
Dm                   F                 F                   F
  Now what would you leave behind when all your fields are dead when your

Dm              F                  F                  F
Territ'ries are dried out and your cities drowned and swept a-what would you

Dm                F                      F                F
Leave behind when those who'll bear your name are born in that place that you

G      `  F                    `           G              `
Wrecked     and what would you leave behind__ when you're no longer
VERSE: [solo]
F    Dm  Dm  `
There
Dm ` F ` G ` VERSE:
F               Dm              Dm         `
  And would you sail to distant shores and hide within the

Dm       `                 F        `
Haze and softly close your door pre-tend the world was

G         `
Saved and wait for heaven's
VERSE-LONG:
F                 Dm                Dm  `
Call or would you turn and face the seas  and calm beside you

Dm           `                 F        `
Care there's chance but if you dare and swift as honest

G                 `         F    Dm
Deeds before it's no longer there__
REFRAIN:
F    `              Dm      F
  Ah-here it goes a-gain oh-here it goes a-

F    `              Dm  `
gain here it goes a-gain__
Dm ` G ` BRIDGE-LONG:
Dm               F                 F                   F
  What would you leave behind when all your fields are dead when your

Dm              F                  F                  F
Territ'ries are dried out and your cities drowned and swept what would you

Dm                F                      F                F
Leave behind when those who'll bear your name are born in that place that you

G      `  F                `           G              `         F    `
Wrecked     what would you leave behind__ when you're no longer there__
CODA:
F        `            Dm           `
__ To de-ny or to des-pair they're really just the

G        `             G        `
Same but ev'rything be-tween it means we have to

F           `                 Dm       `
Change 'cos where the one for-gets the world begins to

G        `                  G           `       
Fade and all the shapes and shades that made the colour

F               `             G                    `
Scene well they suddenly turn grey then they're no longer

F    `  `  N.F.
There_____ (end on 1)