Chords for Bleu Edmondson - The Band Plays On

[B] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [B] _ [Ebm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ She hums a song she [B] can't remember
The _ [Ebm] music lives, but the words are dead
[Bb] The _ [Ebm] _ Sun went out in late [B] November
It's [Ebm] been four days since she's been [Abm] to bed
[Db] _ _ _ [Abm] _ [Db] _ _
_ [Ebm] _ Tattoo on the back [B] of a neck _ _
_ [Ebm] Wales China red lipstick number [Bbm] three
[Bb] _ _
_ [Ebm] stands by the jukebox [B] smoking a cigarette _
_ [Ebm] _ Watches the band and she drinks [B] for [Db] free _
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Don't you know [Gb] everybody's [Db] got a story
It might be a little better [B] than yours
Have you [Gb] ever bled for the [Db] price of glory?
Then what the hell are you living [B]
for?
[Gb] Sit and listen to [Db] the music
But you don't hear [B] the song
[Gb] So the world spins a little [Db] faster
And the band [Ebm]
plays
_ [Ab] _ [B] _ _ _ [Ebm] Everybody _ [Bbm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ stops to watch [B] her move
She _ [Ebm]
laughs just a little out of [Bb] neon fame
The [Ebm] _ _
girls think she's got something [B] to prove
And _ [Ebm] _
all the boys want to know [B] her name
[Db] _ _ _ [B] _
[Db] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ But the storybooks were [B] wrong again
And _ [Ebm] _ the songs on the [Bb] radio lied
_ _ [Ebm] _ She weeps for who [B] she's been
But _ [Ebm] _ nobody [B] hears her [Db] cry
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_ [B] _ _ [Gb] Everybody's got [Db] a story
It might be a little harder [B] than yours
Have you ever [Gb] bled for the [Db] price of glory?
Then what the hell are you living [B] for?
[Gb] Sit and listen to [Db] the music
But you don't hear [B] that song
So [Gb] the world spins a [Db] little faster
And the band [Ebm] plays
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She's [Ebm] _ _ _ [Abm] _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Ebm] _ getting high back [B] in the alley
Standing _ [Ebm] _ _ in the pouring [Eb] rain _ _
_ [Ebm] Her nights have always been [B] just a little too hard
_ [Ebm] _ And don't you know it helps [B] ease the [Db] pain? _
_ [B] _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ [Gb] Everybody's got [Db] a story
It might be a little better [B] than yours
Have you [Gb] ever bled for the [Db] price of glory?
Then what the hell are you living [B] for?
[Gb] Sit and listen to [Db] the music
But you don't hear [B] that song
Cause if [Gb] the world spins a little [Db] faster
_ [B] Well _ [Gb] everybody's [Db] got a story
_ _ [B]
Have you [Gb] ever bled for the [Db] price of glory?
_ _ [B] _
[Gb] Sit and listen to [Db] the music
But you can't hear [B] that song
Cause the [Gb] world spins a little [Db] faster
And the band [Ebm] plays
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