Smoke From A Distant Fire Chords & Tabs
Smoke From A Distant Fire Chords
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Sanford & Townsend band
Smoke from a distant fire (1977)
Notes: A little clean up on v1 for the last line of each verse.
CAPO -2nd Fret
INTRO: G - Am - Bm - Am
G Am G - Am
You left me here on your way to paradise
G Am G - Am
You pulled the rug right out from under my life
G Am G - Am
I know where you goin' to I knew when you came home last night
C E7 A7 D9 D D9
'Cause your eyes had a mist from the smoke of a distant fire
G - Am - Bm - Am
G Am G - Am
Lord, I was stung shoulda seen it come a long time ago
G Am G - Am
When I realized the reality gave me a roll
G Am G - Am
If things are the same then explain why your kiss is so cold
C E7 A7 D9 D D9
And that mist in your eyes feels like rain on the fire in my soul
BRIDGE
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Abm Abm Eb
This lying, and cryin's upsettin' and getting no where
Abm Abm Eb
It don't stack up, so slack up and pack up, I just don't care
Cm7 Abm
Don't let the screen door hit you, on your way out
Cm7 Abm Bb C
Don't you drown when your dream boat runs onto the ground
G - Am - Bm - Am
G Am G - Am
I'd just like to know do you love him or just making time
G Am G - Am
By filling his glass with your fast flowing bitter-sweet lies
G Am G - Am
He'll face the after taste when you come home late some night
C E7 A7 D9 D D9
With your eyes all a mist from the smoke of a distant fire
G - Am - Bm - Am
C E7 A7 G C
Girl your eyes have a mist from the smoke of a distant fire
G C E7 A7 D9 D
Well your eyes have a mist from the smoke of a distant fire
G C E7 A7 D9 D
Your eyes have the mist from the smoke of a distant fire
G C E7 A7 D9 D
Well your eyes have a mist from the smoke of a distant fire
G C E7 A7 D9 D
Oh girl your eyes have a mist from the smoke of a distant fire
G C E7 A7
Mist in your eyes from a distant fire
G C E7 A7 D9 D
Girl your eyes have a mist from the smoke of a distant
D9 D G - Am - Bm - Am
A distant fire
G - Am - Bm - Am