Like A Shotgun chords by
Rory Block

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Key: Db major•

Intro 1

F

F

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C

C

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F

F

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Gsus4

Gsus4

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F

F

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C

C

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F

F

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Gsus4

Gsus4

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Gsus4

Gsus4

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On the

Verse 1

C

C

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cobbled streets of London,

stone churches reaching high

F

F

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Dm

Dm

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You were standing in the doorway

F

F

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Gsus4

Gsus4

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beneath the grey and moody sky

G

G

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C

C

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You were staring out to nowhere,

your face was drawn and thin

F

F

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Dm

Dm

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It must have been November,

F

F

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C

C

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you were leaning in the wind

F

F

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Watching families with babies,

Gsus4

Gsus4

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Gm

Gm

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lovely ladies catch your eye

F

F

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And the children with their colored hats

C

C

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G

G

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Gm

Gm

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and the tourists strolling by

G

G

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C

C

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Dm

Dm

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I saw your face in Paris

F

F

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G

G

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on a dark an d smoky night

C

C

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Dm

Dm

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Smoldering like a man obsessed,

F

F

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C

C

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Gm

Gm

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fear was in your eye

C

C

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s

Gm

Gm

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G

G

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C

C

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On a bloody day in Amsterdam,

Em

Em

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I heard a silent cry

C

C

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F

F

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Dm

Dm

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F

F

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Your face was white and ashy,

C

C

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G

G

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I thought that I would die

C

C

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As I held your hand so tightly,

I felt the closing of the door

F

F

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Dm

Dm

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C

C

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In your eyes I saw that you were gone,

a mask and nothing more

Gsus4

Gsus4

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F

F

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You said you had no sorrow,

C

C

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Gm

Gm

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you said you felt no pain

Gm

Gm

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F

F

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I could see that you were leaving,

Gm

Gm

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Gm

Gm

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I could tell that you were gone

G

G

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C

C

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Dm

Dm

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And you were gone, gone,

F

F

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Gm

Gm

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like a bat out of hell

C

C

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Dm

Dm

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With your books and your new age jargon,

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F

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C

C

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G

G

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Gm

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I remember it so well

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C

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C

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In a restaurant in Brussels,

we were waiting for a train

F

F

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Dm

Dm

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With the glaring yellow lights above,

C

C

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F

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C

C

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G

G

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cheese on dry bread again

C

C

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In the square the birds were sleeping,

then the music began to play

Dm

Dm

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F

F

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And all the lights came streaming on

G

G

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as night was turned to day

F

F

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I was walking past a castle

C

C

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Gm

Gm

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in a green and an cient land

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C

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F

F

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I could see you in the distance

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C

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G

G

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with a camera in your hand

Gm

Gm

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C

C

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Dm

Dm

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You spoke to me just briefly,

F

F

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you were telling me goodbye

C

C

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Dm

Dm

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Get over it, get over it,

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F

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you were angry when

Gm

Gm

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C

C

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F

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I cried

C

C

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Like a ghost sent from Hades,

I heard the funeral bell

Dm

Dm

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F

F

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Your voice was like a shotgun,

words struck me and I fell

Gsus4

Gsus4

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C

C

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You were talking

like a cowboy,

you were telling me goodbye

F

F

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You said you might come back someday,

Gm

Gm

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I knew it was a lie

F

F

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You even said you loved me,

not to take it personally

C

C

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F

F

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As all the years went up in smoke

C

C

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cause you needed to be free

G

G

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C

C

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Dm

Dm

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And you were gone, gone,

F

F

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Gm

Gm

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do ing it your own way

C

C

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Dm

Dm

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You were movin' on to greener fields,

F

F

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C

C

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G

G

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you just turned an d walked away

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F

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C

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F

F

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Dm

Dm

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F

F

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Baby, don't look back, oh

C

C

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F

F

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Ooh, oh

Verse 2

F

F

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Dm

Dm

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F

F

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C

C

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Ooh, ooh

F

F

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Ooh, ooh

Verse 3

F

F

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Ooh

Dm

Dm

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Oh, yeah

F

F

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Oh, yeah

Outro 1

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The original key of Like A Shotgun by Rory Block is Db major.

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