Heaven chords by Squeeze

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Verse 1
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D 
Far illumination shivers
shadows on the streets
The Cypriot sailors
find the world back at their feet
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C# 
Endless days of tobacco,
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C# 
nights by the radio
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C# 
I wonder if they'll ever go
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Dm 
to heaven
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Dm 
Heaven
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The beer mats are waiting
in a table of froth
The bar girl is serving
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with a check -drying cloth
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She'll bend over backwards,
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C# 
even though she's knackered
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I wonder if they'll have her
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Dm 
up in heaven
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Heaven
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Em 
Like the sailors I'll walk home,
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it's 6am
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Em 
Heaven's round the corner,
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in a comfortable bed,
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and I love her
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D 
The officers and seamen
elbow places at the bar
Words to tempt the goddess
thoughtly beats upon the hearts
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D 
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But she'll service his pleasure
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And never know the
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treasure that his wife
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Dm 
Keeps forever up in heaven
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Dm 
Heaven
D 
The first light of the morning
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D 
Threw too much for the street
No one sees each other,
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D 
just their presence there to meet
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D 
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C# 
Your chin takes a snuggle
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C# 
at the sight of a funnel
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And the gangplank is no trouble
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Dm 
up to heaven
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Heaven
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Em 
Like the sailors I walk home,
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Dm 
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it's six a .m.
Em 
Hair buns round the corner,
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in a comfortable bed, and I love her.
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Bb 
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