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C Am7 G7
C F/C C F/C

[Verse 1]
C              F/C
Absent friends,
C              F/C
here's to them
C
And happy days
     Am                     F/A      F/G
We thought that they would never end
          C              F/C
Here's to absent friends
C F/C

[Verse 2]
C          F/C
Little Jean
C            F/C
Seberg seemed
    C
So full of life
    Am                   F/A           F/G
But in those eyes such troubled dreams
      C          F/C
Poor little Jean
C F/C

[Verse 3]
C               F/C
Woodbine Willie
          C              F/C
Couldn't rest until he'd
      C              Am            F/A             F/G
Given every bloke a final smoke before the killing
     C
Old Woodbine Willie

[Break]
Am/C F/G Am/C F/G
D Dsus4 D Dsus4

[Verse 4]
D            G/D
Steve McQueen
            D             G/D
Jumped the first one clean
          D               Bm               G/B      G/A
But the great escape he tried to make was not to be
       D             G/D
Maybe next time Steve
D G/D

[Verse 5]
D         G/D
Laika flew
        D        G/D
Through inky blue
      D               Bm              G/B       G/A
'Til Laika neared the atmosphere and Laika knew
         D              
Laika's life was through
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[Bridge]
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Oscar Wilde was a lonely child
    Am         Am/G  F         Am/E    Dm
He fought and won acceptance from the world
       Dm           D
They smiled, they laughed, they praised
       G9
They drove poor Oscar to his grave
C F/C C F/C
C F/C C F/C

[Outro]
C              F/C
Absent friends,
C              F/C
here's to them
     C
And happy days
     Am                     F
We thought that they would never end
         Dm7
But they always end
             F         F/G
Raise your glasses then
   C             F/C
to absent friends
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