Chords for Tracy Chapman - Smoke and Ashes (Live 1996)

_ _ _ _ _ [N] All right, I'm glad we're back.
My next guest is here to perform a song from her triple platinum album, New Beginning.
This is her first appearance on our show and it's a real pleasure to welcome Tracy Chapman.
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ I heard rumors, [E] I heard talk
_ [A] About the trail you'd left [E] him, broken hearts
[A] The sea of tears [E] too wide to cross
[A] But no bad breath has ever [E] scared me off
[A] You opened a path to [E] figure out
How to give me some of what [A] you got
_ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [A] _ Before you I [E] almost passed you by
[A] You were so cool and calm
[E] I thought my friends had lied
But [A] I thought so much reserved
Thought so naked, [E] wild inside
_ [A] You're still right there, that [E] I'm in
And you gave me some of what [A] you got
I've _ [E] _ _ _
_ [A] _ got a red heart
[E] _ If the talk is through, yours is [A] the same
[F#] We should be [E] together
Let our passions fan the [A] flame
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, [E] yeah, yeah _
[A] I thought I'd won [B] your heart
When I held [E] your hand
In my arms
[A] Thought it was true love
We'd be [B] complimenting each [A] other
Fly right as you're long
When you're right [E] then I'm left with [A] nothing
You're not in here, we have [E] all been spent
Leaving only smoking [A] ashes
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Only smoking ashes, [A] baby
I've [E] _ _ _
_ [A] _ got a red [E] _ heart
And your heart is blue when [A] you're next
I said [F#] that's fine, down [E] below
See it's only smoking ashes, [A] baby
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_ [Am] _ I'm crying all the time
Salty, stinging [D] tears
Mourning for the past _
Carbonated [Am] years
But knowing not for certain
You were always [D] right
Because of the breeze that blowed you
Out of my [Am] life
I was blinded by devotion
My [Em] unwavering love for you
[A] [D] So blinded that I [E] thought
The lies were [Am] true
But now I know for certain
Since you've gone [D] away
It [E] was just a small dream, fire
A mystical place
Only smoking ashes, baby
I've got a red _ heart
And your heart is blue [A] when
The blood in your [E] veins
I said [A] that's fine, [E] down below
See it's only smoking _ ashes, baby
Only smoking [F#] ashes, baby
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