Chords for Peter Hammill - People You Were Going To

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[G] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ Your [B] father has just left your mother, [A] gone off to live with his latest lover.
She [G] sits there, _ [A] staring. _
[B] So you get back to [A] your own flat, cause the atmosphere in [C] there is so [G] bad.
You can't [A] bear it.
And [E] the people you were going [B] to America with, just [D] left on the dawn [A]
plane, _ without [G] you. _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [A] _ The [B] people in the downstairs flat [A] are no longer there now, because they left on gas [G] at all.
They're [A] all dead.
[B] So you've no one left to talk to, you just lie there in melancholy, [C] huh?
[G] They're dead.
On your hungry bed.
[E] And the people you were going [B] to Africa with, [D] just left on the [A] summer star, _ [C] without you.
Without _ [A] you.
Without [G] you.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ Yes, and [B] the haze that's [Bm] been forming [A] round your _ windowpane [Bm] is now _ [A] protracted and poisoned.
_ [B] And you cannot feel the portion [A] of the world outside. _ _ _
_ [E] _ [B] Can you imagine the way you'd feel [A] if all these things had happened to you and the [G] doctor says, you're _ [A] dying?
[B] That is the way that I feel now, I'm finding that your loved one [C] is someone [G] _
else.
Not mine.
[E] And my chance of heaven has just flown [B] away upon a passing cloud, [D] and there is nothing that I can [A] do.
_ _ [C] Without [G] you.
Without _ [A] you. Without you.
Yes, [G] _ _ and [A] _ _ [E] my chance of heaven has just flown away [B] upon a passing cloud, and there [D] is nothing that I can [A] do.
_ [C] Without _ [G] you.
Without [A] you.
[C] Without _ you.
Without [A] you.
Without [G] you. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] People, you were [B] going to [D] Africa on [A] a summer day,
with only [E] a few people with you.
[B] And you [D] were going to Africa on [A] a summer day,
with only [E] a few people with [B] you.
_ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [A] And you were going [E] to Africa _ [B] _ _ on [D] a summer _ [A] day,
with [F#m] only _ [E] a few people _ [B] with you.
And you were going to Africa [D] _ on a summer [A] day,
with only [E] a few people [B] with you.
And you were going to Africa on a summer day,
[D] with _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ only a few people with you.
[B] And you were going to _ [D] Africa _ [A] on a summer [E] day,
with only a few people with you.
with only a few people [B] with you.
And you were going to [D] Africa _ on a summer day,
[A] _ with only [E] _ a few people with you. _