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Letter From America
Proclaimers:
[C] [G] [Am] - repeat till ready
[G] When you [C] go will you send back a [Dm] letter [G] from A[C]merica? [G] Take a [C] look up the rail track from [Dm] Miami [G] to [C] Canada
[F] Well broke off from my work the other day
[Am] Spent the evening thinking about all the blood that flowed away [F] Across the ocean to the second chance
[Am] I wonder how it go on when it [G] reached the promised [F] land
[G] When you [C] go will you send back a [Dm] letter [G] from A[C]merica? [G] Take a [C] look up the rail track from [Dm] Miami [G] to [C] Canada
[F] I've looked at the ocean tried hard to imagine
[Am] The way you felt the day you sailed from Wester Ross to Nova Scotia [F] We should have held you, we should have told you
[Am] But you know our sense of timing we [G] always wait too [F] long
[G] When you [C] go will you send back a [Dm] letter [G] from A[C]merica? [G] Take a [C] look up the rail track from [Dm] Miami [G] to [C] Canada
[C] Lochaber no [G] more, [Am] Sutherland no [G] more [C] Lewis no [G] more, [Am] Skye no [G] more
[C] Lochaber no [G] more, [Am] Sutherland no [G] more [C] Lewis no [G] more, [Am] Skye no [G] more
[C] Lochaber no [G] more, [Am] Sutherland no [G] more [C] Lewis no [G] more, [Am] Skye no [G] more
[F] I wonder my blood will you ever return
[Am] To help us kick the life back to a dying mutual friend?
[F] Do we not love her I think we all tell you about
[Am] Do we have to roam the world to [G] prove how much it [F] hurts?
[G] When you [C] go will you send back a [Dm] letter [G] from A[C]merica? [G] Take a [C] look up the rail track from [Dm] Miami [G] to [C] Canada
[C] Bathgate no [G] more, [Am] Linwood no [G] more [C] Methil no [G] more, [Am] Irvine no [G] more
[C] Bathgate no [G] more, [Am] Linwood no [G] more [C] Methil no [G] more, [Am] Irvine no [G] more
[C] Bathgate no [G] more, [Am] Linwood no [G] more
[C] Methil no [G] more, [Am] Irvine no [G] more
[C] Bathgate no [G] more, [Am] Linwood no [G] more
[C] Methil no [G] more, ....(SLOWER) [C] Lochaber no [G] more
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