Key: E major
Intro 1
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A
Bm
F#m
G
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D
Verse 1
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Have
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D
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you seen the old man
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F#m
in the closed -down market?
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D
Picking up the papers
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A
with his worn -out shoes
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A
In his eyes you see no fire,
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F#m
his hands hang loosely by his side
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D
Yesterday's papers
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D
telling yesterday's news
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D
So how can you tell me
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Bm
you're lonely
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Bm
E
An d say for you the
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Bm
A
sun don't shine
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A
Let me take you by the hand
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I'll show you something
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D
to make you change your mind
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G
who walks the streets of London?
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E
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Dirty little hair and her clothes in rags
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A
She's no time for talking,
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F#m
she just keeps right on walking
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D
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D
Carrying her phone into her carrier bag
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D
So how can you tell me you're
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E
lonely?
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D
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Let me take you by the hand
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A
D
to make you change your mind
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F#m
at a quarter past eleven
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Same old plan, sitting there on his own
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A
Looking at the world
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over the rim of his teacup
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Each tear lasts an hour
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D
and he wonders over all
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D
So how can you tell me you're
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Bm
A
Bm
lonely?
E
A
And say for you the sun don't shine
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Let me take you by the hand
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D
I'll show you something
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D
to make you change your mind
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F#m
outside the seamen's mission?
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E
A
with the metal ribbons that he wears
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A
Bm
In our winter city the rain flies,
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D
in a world that doesn't care
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So how can you tell me you're lonely
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Bm
E
An d I'm saving you
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Bm
A
for the sun don't shine
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A
Let me take you by the hand
G
D
I'll show you something
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D
G
D
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D
to make you change your mind
You
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