Chords for Absent Friends. The Divine Comedy

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[F] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [C] _ _ _
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_ Absent friends, _ here's to them.
_ And happy [Am] days, we thought that [F] they would never end.
[C] Here's to absent friends. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Little Jean, _ seabirds seemed so full of life.
[Am] But in those [F] eyes, such troubled _ dreams.
[C] Poor little Jean. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Would buy with it, couldn't rest until he'd
given every bloke [Am] a final smoke [F] before the _ [Dm] killing.
[C] Oh, would _
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Steve McQueen [G] _
[D] jump the first one clean?
[G] _ [D] But the great escape [Bm] he tried to make [G] was not to be. _
[D] Maybe next time, [G] Steve.
_ [D] _ _ _
_ _ Like a [G] blue, _
[D] inky [G] blue.
[D] To like a near, [Bm] the atmosphere.
[G] And when a [A] year's _ _
[D] life was through. _ _ _ _
_ Oh, [Am] yeah.
_ [Dm] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [Am] _ _
[B] Oscar Wilde [Am] was a lonely [B] child.
[Am] He fought and won [F] acceptance [Dm] from the world.
They smiled, [D] they laughed, they praised.
[G] They drove poor Oscar to his [C] grave.
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_ _ _ _ _ Absent _
[F] friends, [C] here's to [F] them.
[C] And happy days, [Am] we thought that [F] they would never _ end.
[Dm] But they always end.
[F] Raise your glasses [G] there [C] to absent [F] friends.
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