Smoke and Ashes Chords by Tracy Chapman

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_ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ Why do cross?
[A] Little bad press has [E] never scared me off
[A] _ Learned a path to [E] be a rock
Had to give me some of [A] what you got
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_ _ I've got a red hot heart
If the talk is to use, there's a saying
We should be together
And let our passion spend the swing
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah _ _
_ [A] When I looked for you, I [E] almost passed you by
[A] _ You were so cool and [E] calm, I thought my friends had lied
[A] But I got so much reserve, must [E] make it wild inside
[A] And then, [E] that I knew
Had to give me [A] some of what you got
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_ [A] _ I've got a red [E] hot heart _
If the talk is to use, there's a saying
We should be together
And let our passion [A] spend the swing
Oh yeah yeah [E] yeah yeah yeah
Thought _ [A] _ I'd won your heart [E] when I held your hand
In my [A] eyes
Thought it was true love, [E] the way we complimented each other
Am I right, is you wrong?
When you're right, then I'm left with [A] nothing
Your light and your heat, [E] if all them spent
Leaving only smoking [A] ashes
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Only smoking [A] ashes, baby
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_ _ [A] I've [E] got a red hot heart
And your heart is blue as a bloody [A] vase
I said there's [E] fire down below
You say it's only smoking [A] ashes, baby
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_ _ [Am] _ I'm crying all the time
Salt [A] is [B] stinging in tears
And [Am] mourning for the [E] past
Carbon dated [Am] years
_ Blowing out for [E] sure time
You were always right
Because if [B] the breeze could blow you
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Out of my [E] life
Only smoking ashes, baby
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[B] _ _ [E] _ Only smoking [A] ashes, baby
[F#] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] I've got a [B] red hot [E] heart
And your heart is blue as a bloody [A] vase
I said [F#] there's fire down [E] below
You say it's only [A] smoking ashes, baby
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_ [B] _ [E] _ _ _ _ I [Am] was blinded by devotion
My unwavering [D] love for you
So blinded that I thought
All your [Am] lies were true _
Now I know for certain
[A] Since you've gone away
[Am] It was just a small [D] dream I heard
A mystical [E] blaze, only smoking ashes, baby [A] Hey, babe
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_ _ I've got a red hot heart
And your heart is blue as a bloody vase
Your heart's as [A] blue
I said there's fire [E] down below
You say it's only smoking [A] _ ashes, baby [E] Only
Only smoking ashes, [A] baby
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