The Girl Who Slept For Scotland chords by
The Waterboys

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Key: C major

Verse 1
Am Am 
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C C 
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Am Am 
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I tried to sleep upon
my back so I could
Hold her all night long as in my
C C 
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Arms  she slept, alas,
but no I couldn't
Am Am 
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And when daybreak came and found her
At the far side of the bed I tried to
C C 
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Wake her, tried to stir her,
but she wouldn't
Fm Fm 
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In her fug she lay like someone dead
And even when I'd tug her head and
Bb Bb 
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Press and nip and agitate and shake her
Fm Fm 
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Or call her name or whisper
it against her ear,
C C 
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My breath warm, there were
No words in this universe
G G 
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F F 
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would wake her
C C 
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Verse 2

The girl who slept for Scotland

Verse 3
F F 
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Am Am 
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It took me time to comprehend
This state of play extended unto
C C 
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All her working, waking, shaking hours
Am Am 
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For when she finally woke, deep in the day
Still she did sleepwalk like a
C C 
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hollow ghost
A- float in haunted towers
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And though she heard she didn't see
And though she saw she
didn't hear,
Attending only to what
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seemed precise and kind
Fm Fm 
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For she was settled in her dream,
A shopping list of small illusions,
C C 
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Pretty stories that she told
G G 
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her drowsy mind

Verse 4

The girl who slept for Scot

land

Interlude 1

Verse 5
Dm Dm 
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Yet I re  member a day
by a river wild
Am Am 
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When she clung to me hard
Asus4 Asus4 
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like a darling child
Em Em 
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Am Am 
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Dm Dm 
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And a night in the sheets of
Am Am 
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a Dublin bed
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When she moaned   like a woman
And gave sweet head
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F F 
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When we sang in tongues together
Em Em 
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And our syn chronised guitars
C C 
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Played music to the rafters
G G 
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Made love among the stars
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And our bodies beat like light
G G 
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In love's bold embrace
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G G 
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As her tiny kisses burst like
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G G 
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Popping suns around my face

Verse 6
Am Am 
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But then drift, recline, collapse,
The lights went out, she fell asleep again
C C 
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Before my kiss- wet face was even dry
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I need another haircut she'd say,
Talking in her sleep,
the sleep- motes
C C 
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Gathered in the dust- bowls of her eye
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She teetered down the road apiece,
She and her man, from dozy bedsit land
To junkshop, with her sleeping
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clothes in sacks
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And when I'd gone she teetered
down the road again,
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Yawning as she went,
And went and brought the bloody
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damn things  back
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C C 
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Verse 7

The girl who slept for Scotland

Outro 1
C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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F F 
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C C 
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G G 
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F F 
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C C 
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G G 
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F F 
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C C 
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