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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
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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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Arm s she slept, alas,

but no I couldn't
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
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In her fug she lay like someone dead

And even when I'd tug her head and
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
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would wake her
C
C

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Verse 2
G
G

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F
F

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The girl who slept for Scot land
C
C

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G
G

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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
Fm
Fm

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And though she heard she didn't see

And though she saw she

didn't hear,

Attending only to what
Bb
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seemed precise and kind
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
F
F

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The girl who slept for Scot
C
C

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land
Interlude 1
G
G

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C
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F
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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
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Dm
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And a night in the sheets of
Am
Am

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a Dublin bed
Asus4
Asus4

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When she moaned like a woman

And gave sweet head
Am
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F
F

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When we sang in tongues together
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
F
F

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And our bodies beat like light
G
G

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In love's bold embrace
C
C

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G
G

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As her tiny kisses burst like
Fm
Fm

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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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Be fore my kiss- wet face was even dry
Am
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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
Fm
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She teetered down the road apiece,

She and her man, from dozy bedsit land

To junkshop, with her sleeping
Bb
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clothes in sacks
Fm
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And when I'd gone she teetered

down the road again,
C
C

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Yawning as she went,

And went and brought the bloody
G
G

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damn thing s back
F
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C
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Verse 7
G
G

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F
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The girl who slept for Scot land
Outro 1
C
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G
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TunerE A D G B E

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ChordsAm C Fm Bb G...

  • Am

  • C

  • Fm

  • Bb

  • G

  • F

  • Dm

  • Asus4

  • Em

Capo: No capo

Transpose: 0

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Chords

  • Am

  • C

  • Fm

  • Bb

  • G

  • F

  • Dm

  • Asus4

  • Em

Capo: No capo

Transpose: 0

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