Chords for Luka Bloom, The Man Is Alive..flv

[N] I'd like to sing you a [C#] song that was inspired [C] by my father [B] who died on the 8th of October 1956
and is still very [G] very much [F#] in my life, [G] taking [F#] care of me and all of us.
[G] This song is [F] called The Man Is Alive.
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The night _ sometimes seems dangerous
_ We wonder what it hides
It sometimes brings us closer
And [C] forever _ [G] changes our _ lives
_ Strangers talk in open ways
_ [C] We cannot [G] always understand
_ Who have not felt the love and touch
[C] Seen the guide and [D] had
_ _ _ _ _ [G] I was brought up near the riverside
In a quiet Irish town
_ _ _ An 18 month old baby
The night they laid my daddy down _ _ _ _
Everyone knew _ everyone
And everybody else as well
_ _ _ My home was filled with sorrow then
_ Too much for me to tell
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_ _ [Em] _ [D] The man is alive _
_ _ [F] _ _ [G] Alive and [C] breathing
[G] It's _ taken me so long to see
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_ _ [G] _ The man [D] is alive
[G] _ _ _ Alive and breathing _
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_ man [D] is alive _ [G] in me
We _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ stood among the totem poles
Under the Canadian moonlight
_ _ She told me all about her childhood days
[C] On the Vancouver [G] _ mountainside
_ An 18 month old baby
The night her daddy passed away
We _ _ stood and watched the darkness
_ [C] Flowing into the light [D] of day _ _ _ _ _
[G] The night sometimes seems dangerous
_ [C] We wonder [G] what it hides
It sometimes _ brings us closer
And forever changes our lives
_ _ Strangers talk in open ways
[C] _ We cannot [G] always understand
We begin to feel the love and touch
[C] And see the guide and [D] had _
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The man is [D] alive
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Alive and breathing
_ [Em] _ It's taken [D] me so long to [F] see _ _
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The man [D] is alive
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Alive [C] and breathing
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_ The night _ sometimes seems dangerous
[C] We wonder [G] what it hides
_ It sometimes brings us closer
And [C] forever [G] changes our lives
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