Prefab Sprout - The Sound Of Crying Chords & Tabs

 

The Sound Of Crying Chords & Tabs

Prefab Sprout Chords & Tabs

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The Sound Of Crying Chords

   
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		The Sound of Crying - Prefab Sprout
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

Prefab Sprout 
The Sound of Crying (1992) 
(McAloon)

From: "The Sound of Crying" [Single] 
Now on various Greatest Hits collections


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CHORDS

         e-B-G-D-A-e
Cmaj7    0-0-0-2-3-x
Dm7/9    0-1-2-0-x-x
G/A      x-3-4-5-0-x
Fmaj7    0-1-2-2-x-1

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Capo 1st fret

INTRO
| Cmaj7 | Dm7/9 | % | % | 
| Cmaj7 | Dm7/9 | % | % | 


Cmaj7                Dm7/9
Hang out the flags a new world order's on the way
Cmaj7               Dm7/9
Start singing now a song to greet the joyful day
G/A  Fmaj7
       Just when we thought the time was right for celebrating
Dm7/9
  With music of the spheres
Fmaj7
  What's this - another boat of fleeing refugees on
Dm7/9
  A sea of children's tears
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/p/prefab_sprout/the_sound_of_crying_crd.html ]
G               Am
  Once more the sound of crying
Dm7
  Is number one across the earth
G               Am
  Once more the sound of crying
Dm7
  Is number one across the earth

Cmaj7              Dm7/9
We're only men and women doing what we can
Cmaj7                    Dm7/9
  Sometimes I think that God is working to a plan
G/A  Fmaj7
       Then other times I swear that he is improvising
Dm7/9
  Discordant and remote
Fmaj7
  Another orphan baby in failed uprising
Dm7/9
  Another real bum note

G               Am
  Once more the sound of crying
Dm7
  Is number one across the earth
G               Am
  Once more the sound of crying
Dm7
  Is number one across the earth

Cmaj7           Dm7
  And if you're listening up there
Cmaj7          Dm7
  You could consider this a prayer

G/A  Fmaj7
       Well who am I to tell you how to run your business
Dm7/9
  Man, you could strike me blind
Fmaj7
  What kind of noise we gotta make down here before we
Dm7/9
  Destroy your peace of mind

G               Am
  Once more the sound of crying
Dm7
  Is number one across the earth
G               Am
  Once more the sound of crying
Dm7
  Is number one across the earth

[vocals ad lib and fade]