I Am Kloot - Fingerprints Chords & Tabs

From Kloot's Mercury Prize-nominated Sky At Night Album. 

A very beautiful song that is also straightforward to learn.

Standard tuning
Capo at 2nd fret

Am       x02210
Am/G     3x2210
C        032010
D        xx0232
F6       1x3231


Intro 
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Am   /G   D    Asus/F   Am   (x3)


Verse 1
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   Am          /G              D
If heaven is a place upon your skin

     F6                           Am
That I may have touched from with-out to within

          Am               /G               D
Well then dust yourself of fingerprints and grin

    F6         Am
And grin


Refrain 1
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    C          /B      Am
Cos we don't have to stay

           F6        
With these people whose ideas

              Am
Are just what other people say


Refrain 1
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C      /B     Am
We can walk a-way

           F6     
From these feelings that are filling up
    Am         E 
Our lives with daze

F   E   C   B   F   E


Verse 2
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      Am                   /G             D
And I guess that I've been singing all my life

            F6                Am
Well that's right and that is fine

       Am                /G             D
I been spending all your money and your time

            F6                Am
Well that's right and that is fine


Refrain 2
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    C       /B      Am
Cos I don't have to stay

           F6     
With these feelings that are filling up

   Am
My life with daze

C       /B     Am
  I can walk a-way

           F6     
From these people whose ideas
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/i/i_am_kloot/fingerprints_crd_ver_2.html ]
              Am           E
Are just what other people say

F   E   C   B           F   E
        Again and again


Verse 3
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        Am            /G              D
And the crowd that is gathered is con-fused

          F6              Am
We're all trembling inside solitude

Am        /G              D
We've got nothing left to use

F6     
We've got all the bullets

            Am
But there's no-one left to shoot


Refrain 3
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    C        /B     Am
And we can't walk a-way

           F6     
From these feelings that are filling up

    Am
Our lives with daze

C       /B       Am
We may have to stay

           F6     
With these people whose ideas

              Am           E
Are just what other people say

F   E   C   B           F   E
        Again and again


Verse 4
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        Am          /G              D
Well if heaven is a place upon your skin

     F6                           Am
That I may have touched from with-out to within

          Am               /G               D
Well then dust yourself of fingerprints and grin

    F6       Am
And grin and grin


  Am                   /G             D
I guess that I've been singing all my life

            F6                Am
Well that's right and that is fine

       Am                /G             D
I been spending all your money and your time

            F6                Am
Well that's right and that is fine


Outro
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Am   /G   D    Asus/F   Am   (x2)

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I hope I've done it justice!

Kevin O'Brien
Watford
England
June 2011

watfordkev@gmail.com