Chords for THE TANGENT - Two Rope Swings (Album Track)

_ _ _ _ Whether in our own _ _ backfields or burning savannah plains,
_ Some kid will build a rope swing on a brook that has [G] no _ name.
Ye, _ winter halls indeed!
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_ [G] _ _ _ Ye, winter halls indeed!
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ And be they here or there, they are wilder days away,
_ In the dream of youth eternal, _ in their homes of [G] yesterday.
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_ [G] _ _ [A] _ [B] And _ _
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ [E] if they read the [Bb] world in books, they might just see each other [Em] _ [B] swing, _ _ _
In their minds' eye, _ _ they [Bb] catch a glimpse _ of trees and water.
_ _ And sometimes [B] _ imagine that _ the Hawthorn and _ Hedge _ become the [Bb] Webbern Bush, _ _ _
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_ [Ab] _ Or built mass swing down western woods _ at the meeting [Bbm]
of two [Ab] tracks,
_ _ Behind the road of dandrums, so I [Bbm] could find [Ab] my way back. _ _
_ _ _ The [Fm] keemy built-ins [Ab] or the creek that marked the village bounds,
He could see the herd of elephants on the distant _ [G] shimmering ground. _ _ _ _
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] And as our lives go [Bb] on, _ [Ab] we think it's all [Bb] still there,
_ [Fm] The image gets [Bb] so tempting, [Eb] it [C] becomes [D] unanswered. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F] _ Did he see me [C] in a bowler hat?
[F] Was my image in him?
As naive as that, did I see a world where it's all still here,
Where nothing lives in danger [Am] or doubt or fear?
_ [B] A _ [Am] _ _ [G] _
_ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ couple of years [A] after they shot that herd, I learned piano on the [D] tusks that I deserve.
[A] [D] A keemy [A] struggles to feed his ailing mum, sells me _ ornamentation he gathers [G] with a gun.
And we think Africa is like some fairyland, like in the picture books we read [A] when we play [F] down the swings.
_ Lions, [D] tigers, _ wildebeests, sapper, _ _ _ [Bb] giraffe and giraffe.
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_ [C] _ [Bm] _ At the top of the [A] pen on the map you'll likely [Dm] [Gb] find, an [Cm] abandoned gas station and a [C] disused [B] mine.
A tanker churning down some [C] dusty [Gb] roads, and a big b-rollo [C] to show how much we [D] know. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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OK.
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[F] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] When we're in our own [Ab] bad news, [Eb] and when it's all bad [Cm] at please,
The kids will [Eb] still make rope swings, and we'll tear them [G] down, yeah.
As _ down _
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_ [G] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ the road I turn, _ to a quiet cul-de-sac,
_ Where cars are parked on _ driveways, and TVs shine [G] the wildlife _ _ back.
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_ [G] _ _ [Db] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ A keemy buys a cola, _ from the garage on City Road.
_ [Gm] He wanders [Ab]
back the freeway, _ to the bridge at Port [G] D'Aude.
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[G] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ And if we wind back both our clocks, _ [G] we know we're standing [B] there,
_ _ _ Where once stood our _ swings, _ _ hanging [Bb] from trees, _ _ _ _ by the water. _ _ _ _
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