The Divine Comedy – Absent Friends (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro] | C | F | C | C F F F |

| C | Am | F | G5 |
(horns & strings)

C            Csus4   C             Csus4
[tab]    C              Am                      F
And happy days, we thought that they would never end.

Gsus4  C              Csus4  C    Fsus4
Here's to absent friends.

[Verse 1]

C          Csus4  C         Csus4
Little Jean's  -  Seberg seemed.

   C                 Am                 F
So full of life, but in those eyes such troubled dreams.

Gsus4 C         Csus4    C      Csus4
Poor  little Jean.

[Verse 3]

C               Fsus4     C            C5
Woodbine Willie, couldn't rest until he'd..

Csus4 C             Am            F              G
Given every bloke a final smoke before the killing.

Gsus4 C
Old   Woodbine Willie..

[Interlude]

| C | C | C Csus4 | D |
(strings... + starting

| D | D | D |
car engine.

[Verse 4]

D           G             D             G
Steve McQueen, jumped the first one clean.

        D                Bm                G
But the great escape, he tried to make was not to be..

A     D                D    D     Dsus4
Maybe next time Steve..

[Verse 5]

D          Gsus4     D
Laika flew., through inky blue.

Gsus4 D                Bm             G        A..
 'Til Laika neared the atmosphere and Laika knew

        D
Laika's life was through..

[Interlude]

| D | D | Am | Dm |
      Oh, yeah

| Cm | Bdim |
(horns)

[Verse 6]

Am                               Dm
Oscar Wilde, - was a lonely child.

   Am               F        E        Dm
He fought and won acceptance from the world.

             D                                Gsus4            G          C    Csus4
They smiled, they laughed, they praised, they drove poor Oscar to his gra-ave...

| C | C Fsus4 |
(horns & strings)

[Verse 7]

C           Fsus4 C
Absent friends,   here's to them.

Fsus4 C              Am                      F
 And  happy days, we thought that they would never end..

         Dm7                    F           G        C              C     C    C
But they always end, raise your glasses the-en.., to absent friends.....