Slip Slidin' Away chords by The Drifters

SimplifiedG · Em · D · C · F

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Slip sliding away,
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Em 
slip sliding away
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D 
You know the nearer your destiny,
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the more you slip sliding away
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G 
I know a man, he came from my hometown
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D 
He wore his passion for his woman
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like a thorny crown
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Em 
He said, Dolores, I live in fear
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D 
A love unused or empowered,
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I'm afraid I'll disappear
Em 
Slip -sliding away, slip -sliding away
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D 
You know the nearer your destination,
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D 
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the I  you slip sliding away
Em 
I know a wo  man
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Became a wife
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These are the very words
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C 
she used to describe her life
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She says a good day
Em 
Ain't got no  rain
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C 
She says her bad days are when I  lie in bed
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G 
and think of things that might have been
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Em 
Slip sliding away, slip sliding anyway
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You know the nearer your destination
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the more you slip slide away
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I know a father who had a son
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He longed to tell him the reason
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C 
for all the things he'd done
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Em 
He came a long ways just to explain
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He kissed his boy and he lay sleeping
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D 
and turned around and hit home again,
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slip sliding away,
Em 
slip sliding away.
You know the nearer your
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destination,
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D 
the more you slip slide away.
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F 
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Em 
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God only knows, God makes his plans
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The information unavail
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C 
able to the mortal man
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Em 
We work our jobs, collect our pay
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Believe we're gliding
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down the highway
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D 
G 
When in fact you slip sliding away
Slip sliding away
Em 
Slip sliding away
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D 
You know the nearer your destination
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D 
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The more you slip slide away
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G 
Slip sliding away
Em 
Slip sliding away
you know that they're your destination.