Absent Friends Chords by The Divine Comedy

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Absent _ _ friends, _ _ _ here's to them _ _
_ And happy days [Am] we thought that they would never _ _
[F] end
_ _ [C] Here's to absent _ _ _ friends _ _ _
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Little _ _ Jean, _ _ sea-burned _ seemed _
_ So full of life, [Am] but in those eyes such troubled [F] _ _
dreams
_ Poor [C] little _ _ _ Jean _ _ _ _ _
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Woodvine Willie, _ _ _ _ couldn't rest until _ _ he'd
Given every bloke _ [Am] final smoke [F] before the killing
[G] _ _ _ [C] Oh, Woodvine Willie
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_ Steve _ McQueen, _ _ jumped the first one clean _
_ _ But the great escape he tried to make was [Bm] not to _
[G] be
_ _ Maybe [D] next time, _ Steve _ _ _ _
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Like a flu, _ _ _ through Inky _ _ Blue
_ _ To like a near [Bm] the _ atmosphere, and like a [G]
view
_ _ Like his [D] life was _ _ through _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] Oh yeah
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ Oscar _ Wilde, was a lonely _ child
_ _ [A] He [Am] thought and won [F] acceptance [Am] from the [Dm] world
They smiled, they [D] laughed, they praised
[G] They drove poor Oscar to his grave
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_ _ To like a _ near the atmosphere
_ _ _ Absent _ friends, _ _ _ _ here's to _ them
_ _ And happy days we [Am] thought that they [F] would never _ _ _ _ end
[Dm] But they _ always _ end
_ Raise [F] your glasses _ _ _ _ then
To absent _ _ friends _ _ _ _ _
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