Chris De Burgh - Old Friend

old friend
words and music : chris de burgh
album : spanish train and other stories ( 1975 )

capo : ii
Gmaj7 : 200023
[ ch ] Adim7 [ /Ch ] : – – 4545
A#m : 123311
B7 : – 21202

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G Gmaj7 Adim7 B7 Em
old friend , so you’re in trouble again , you ask me today
Am D Bm Em
to try and find a little time and maybe buy a glass of wine
Am D
old friend , i’m coming through

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G B7 Em
old friend , yes i remember you , always a smile on your face
Am D Bm Em
oh a memory from years before , an old man and a little boy
Am D G B7
old friend , i remember you

Em Am D Em
you used to take me fishing down by the wishing well
Em Bm C D Em
one day you threw a wish in and we listened while it fell
B7
and you made a wish . . .

C D G C D G
“when the years are heavy and my heart is growing cold
C B7 Em D7
well i wish when the evening comes that there’ll always be
G Bm – A#m – Am D G
some ol’ ol’ old friend who’ll miss me too”

Em
well i do
Am D G D
so friend i’m coming through

G – B7 – Em
da di da di da . . .

Am D Bm Em
yes , for you i’ll always find the time , we will have a bottle of wine
Am D Bm E
old friend , i’m here by your side , oh , to the very end
Am D
old friend . . . i miss you too

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my dear . . .

G Bm Bm – A#m – Am D
old friend . . . ahhhhahhh ah , ooooh . . . ( repeat to fade )