Stars In My Eyes chords by Danny McMaster

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Verse 1
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 (D major) I  was  (G major)  (A major) 
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A 
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 (G major)  (A major)  (D major) 
playin' rhythm
in a cowboy band,
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Battered  (G major) old Gibson  (D major) I
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bought  (G major) second hand,
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In the  (A major) smoky old ballrooms
down south of Wales,
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A lot of free  (G major) drinks and
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the usu (D major) al  (G major) ladies.  (D major) 
You know sometimes a fight break
out on Saturday nights,
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we'd turn up the volume  (G major) and
watch the sides.
There was bar stools breaking,
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 (A major) women was a screaming,
beer was a spilling,
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and people was  (G major) a  bleeding.  (D major) 
You know a big old man
with a cigar in his mouth.
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he come along  (G major) and said hey boy let
me take you away from the South
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he said you  (A major) look like a natural
-born cowboy star
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then he  (G major) flashed me some money
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 (D major) and  (G major) I jumped  (D major) in his car
but I took my chance up in Hollywood man
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 (G major) it finished me finished me for good
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I set  (A major) off in a good faith
in search of blue skies
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 (G major) I  was always crazy with stars in  (D major) my eyes  (B major) 
E 
 (E major) Well, he took me to Hollywood
and I signed the dotted line
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 (A major) He said, I'll make you a million
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I said, hey, that's fine  (B major) 
I didn't sit on my butt,
he had me working hard
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He's  (A major) busy tryin' to make
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me a  (E major) cowboy star
And I went to the studio, boss after boss
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 (B major) An (A major) d I never did get to ride me no horse
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I  (B major) just sort of sat there,
strummed and looked pretty
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And the boys  (A major) kept sayin',
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son, this  (E major) is the big city
Well, my movies made heaps
and I cleared the
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 (A major) But along the way,
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I got off the beaten track (B major) 
Bad investments, wine, women, and song
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An (A major) d I don't know exactly
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 (E major) where it was I went wrong
But I took my chance up in Hollywood
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And  (A major) it finished me, finished me for good
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I set  (B major) off in good faith in search of blue skies
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I was  (A major) always crazy, with stars  (E major) in eyes  (C sharp major) 
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Now  (F sharp major) on skid row to fresh air is my friend
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 (C sharp major) Cause  (B major) you know the movies
got away from the cowboy trend
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An (C sharp major) d I'm just seeing the world
through red and glazed eyes
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 (B major) Just remembering and
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watching the  (F sharp major) sun set and rise
I took my chance, boy, up in Hollywood,
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an (B major) d it sure finished me,
finished me for good.
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 (C sharp major) I   set off in good faith in
search of blue skies,
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but  (B major) I was always crazy,
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with scars in  (F sharp major) my  eyes.
I took my chance in Hollywood
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an (B major) d  it finished me,
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boy I set  (C sharp major) off in search of blue skies
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I  (B major) was always tracing the stars
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 (F sharp major) in  my eyes  (B major)  (C sharp major) 
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 (B major) 
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