The Girl Who Slept For Scotland Chords

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[Verse 1]
[Am]I tr[C]ied to sleep u[Am]pon
my back so I could
Hold her all night long as in my
Arm[C]s she slept, alas,
but no I couldn't
And when [Am]daybreak came and found her
At the far side of the bed I tried to
Wake [C]her, tried to stir her,
but she wouldn't
In her [Fm]fug she lay like someone dead
And even when I'd tug her head and
Press and nip and agitate [Bb]and shake her
Or [Fm]call her name or whisper
it against her ear,
My breath warm, there [C]were
No words in this universe
[G]would wake [F]her
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[Verse 2]
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The girl who slept for Scot[F]land
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[Verse 3]
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It [Am]took me time to comprehend
This state of play extended unto
All [C]her working, waking, shaking hours
For [Am]when she finally woke, deep in the day
Still she did sleepwalk like a
[C]hollow ghost
A- float in haunted towers
And though she [Fm]heard she didn't see
And though she saw she
didn't hear,
Attending only to what
seemed precise [Bb]and kind
For she [Fm]was settled in her dream,
A shopping list of small illusions,
Pretty [C]stories that she told
her drowsy [G]mind

[Verse 4]
The girl who slept for [F]Scot
[C]land

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 5]
Yet I [Dm]re member a day
by a river wild
When she [Am]clung to me hard
[Asus4]like a darling child
[Em]And a nigh[Am]t in t[Dm]he sheets of
a Dublin [Am]bed
When she [Asus4]moaned like a woman
And gave sweet head
[Am]When we sang[F] in tongues together
And our [Em]syn chronised guitars
Played [C]music to the rafters
Made [G]love among the stars
And our [F]bodies beat like light
In [G]love's bold embrace
[C]As her tiny kisses burst [G]like
Popping suns [Fm]around my [G]face

[Verse 6]
But then [Am]drift, recline, collapse,
The lights went out, she fell asleep again
Be[C]fore my kiss- wet face was even dry
I [Am]need another haircut she'd say,
Talking in her sleep,
the sleep- motes
[C]Gathered in the dust- bowls of her eye
She [Fm]teetered down the road apiece,
She and her man, from dozy bedsit land
To junkshop, with her sleeping
clothes [Bb]in sacks
And when I'd [Fm]gone she teetered
down the road again,
Yawning as she [C]went,
And went and brought the bloody
damn thing[G]s back
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[Verse 7]
[G]
The girl who slept for Scot[F]land

[Outro 1]
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