Key: A minor
Intro 1
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G
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Verse 1
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Talking on the mobile phones
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Verse 2
When I was a baby there was
Dm
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laughter in my house
And my daddy smoked
live in concert
C
G
F
Live from Cairo, mother of Egypt
F
G
Be with me
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Am
With the music in your breast
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In your glittering evening dress
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And the white flag in your fist trembling
G
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Interlude 1
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F
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G
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Verse 3
Dm
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Sun comes up and Baghdad falls
G
F
Before the eyes of storytelling girls
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Dm
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She was just a poor man's daughter
F
Dm
Am
bed
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He was desert, she was a water
C
G
And he remembered every word she said
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G
Grandma, grandma
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G
Be with me
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In your tragic wedding gown
F
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With your long hair hanging
down
F
Am
And the stories tumbling out
Interlude 2
Tumbling
G
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F
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G
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Verse 4
Dm
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Talking on the mobile phones
C
G
Am
And the television talks about the war
About the war
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And the television talks about the war
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAm F G Dm C
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