Chords for STRANGLERS - Vladimir and Olga [1983 Midnight Summer Dream]

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[Bbm] _ _ _ _ It was a hot September, the hottest [Ab] I can [Bb] remember. _
We [Ab] took the children [Ebm] in the Lada [Db] and headed for warm climes [Bbm] in Odessa.
_ [Abm] _ I'd worked [Bbm] hard the whole season.
[Abm] Olga betrayed a [Bbm] tiredness which she strove to [Ebm] conceal.
We [C] stopped at an inn and took [F] some lunch.
Some [A] simple fare of cheeses and [Bbm] borscht.
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bbm] The bread [Fm] tasted strange.
_ [Bbm] Olga mentioned to me the [Ebm] old wives tale [Bbm] of bread mould [C] [Bbm] madness. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I [F] laughed and F [Bbm] and F and laughed.
_ _ [C] The food did me [Bbm] good.
The beer [F] refreshed my dusty [Bbm] brow.
_ _ It was as we reached [F] Odessa _ [Bbm] that I started to feel the [Ebm] strangest U descend over [Bbm] me from nowhere.
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_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Abm] The sky [Bbm] changed colour.
_ [Abm] Vehicles on the road [Bbm] were a foggy mess.
[Ebm] It struck me as [C] being incredibly [F] funny that we four were in a [A] tin can, [Bbm] hiding ourselves
from the [F] cruel harsh alien [Bbm] world outside.
[F] I stopped the car in the middle [Gb] of the [Ab] [Bbm] intersection in the centre of Odessa and staggered out
to dance and laugh at [F] the insignificance of our ordered [Bbm] lives. _ _
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_ _ _ The [F] traffic built up and [Bbm] Odessa saw its largest, most confused and [C] contorted traffic [Bbm] jam and
I started to laugh. _
_ _ _ I laughed and laughed and laughed until I cried and I [Ebm] cried [Bbm] and I cried and I cried until
I laughed and laughed and [F] laughed.
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bbm] I laughed [A] and laughed and [F] laughed until [Ebm] I cried and cried [Bbm] and cried _ [Ebm] and cried and [Bbm] cried until
I [F] laughed and [Bbm] laughed and laughed. _ _ _
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