The Divine Comedy – Absent Friends (Guitar Intro Tab)

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here's to them

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And happy days

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We thought that they would never end

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Here's to absent friends

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Little Jean

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Seberg seemed

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So full of life

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But in those eyes such troubled dreams

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Poor little Jean

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Woodbine Willie

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Couldn't rest until he'd

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Given every bloke a final smoke before the killing

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Old Woodbine Willie

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Steve McQueen

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Jumped the first one clean

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But the great escape he tried to make was not to be

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Maybe next time Steve

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Laika flew

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Through inky blue

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'Til Laika neared the atmosphere and Laika knew

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Laika's life was through

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Oscar Wilde was a lonely child

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He fought and won acceptance from the world

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They smiled, they laughed, they praised

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They drove poor Oscar to his grave

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Absent friends,

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here's to them

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And happy days

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We thought that they would never end

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But they always end

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Raise your glasses then

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to absent friends