Lions Chords by Dire Straits

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_ [A] _ _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _ _
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_ [Bm] _ _ Red sun [D] _ moving down, [A] way over [A#m] [Dm] dirty town.
[Bm] _ _ [D] Starlings there sweeping around [A] them, _ crazy [D] [Gm] show.
[Bm] _
_ _ _ [D] Yes, and a girl is there, _ [A] like peeling of [B] the cosmic square.
[Bm] The [D] wind it blows around in her hair, _ [A] _ and the flags upon [Em] the [G#] pole.
_ [Em] _ _ [G] Waking in [Em] the crowd to cross out the light.
_ She looks around [E] [F#] to find a face she [Bm] can match.
_ [F#m] _ _ _
[Bm] Oh, _ _ _ [F#m] _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Bm] church [D] bell _ clanging on [A] the slope.
Kind of get a [Dm] crowd, even [G] some.
[D] _ Nobody cares, depend _ upon [A] the time of day.
[E] _
[Bm] _ _ _ [D] All in the station praying for drink.
[A] Her congregation [Dm] _
late again.
[Bm] _ It's [D] getting darker all the time [A] this _ black hole [E] day.
[Bm] _ [G] _ [Em] Can't hold a soldier together at night.
He's a crazy lion, [E] he's a [F#] howling [Bm] for a fight.
_ [F#m] _ _
_ [Bm] Oh, yeah.
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_ _ [Bm] Strap hanging, [D] _ _
[Bm] gunshots [A] are,
bullets landing [Dm] on [G] the overground.
[Bm] _ _ _ [D] Starlings are tough, _ [A] but the lions are made of [E] stone. _
_ [Bm] _ A demon paper [D] and _ horizon.
[A] _ There's hope for later, [G] _ _
Capricorn.
[Bm] _ Lucky [D] stars give her just enough [A] to get her [Bm] home.
_ [G] _ [Em] _ Then she read about a swing to the right.
But she's a think [E] about a stranger [F#] _ [Bm] in the night.
[F#m] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ Thinking [A] about the lions.
_ _ [G] _ _ Thinking [A] about the lions.
_ _ [G] _ _ Happened [A] to the lions.
_ [Bm] You know.
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_ [Bm] You know.
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_ [Bm] You know.
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