SLAINTE MHATH (Marillion)►CAPO: 3ª

Intro: PIANO = > B A F#m E (4 x)

[D] 6x

[D]hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravadocarbon trail scores a moist stretched palm Trapped in the indecision of another fine menuAnd you sit there and ask me to tell you the story so far / This is the story so far

Shuffling your memories dealing your doodles in margins You scrawl out your poems across a beer mat or twoAnd when you declare the point of grave creationThey turn round and you to tell them the story so far / This is the story so far

A D GAnd you listen with a tear in your eye A D GTo their hopes and betrayels and your only reply / is Slainte mhath.

[D] 2x

[D]Princes in exile raising the standard rambuie Parading their anecdotes tired from old campaigns Holding their own last orders commanding attentionWe sit here and listen to all of the story so far / This is the story so far

F G AmTake it away Take it away Take it away F G Take it away, take it away Take it a way, take it away A G D A G DTake me away!

A G DFrom the dream on a the barbed wire at Flanders and Bil...ston Glen

A G DFrom a Clydeside that rusts from the tears of its broken men A G DFrom the realisation that we've been left be...hind A G DIs to stand like our fathers before us in the fi....ring line

A G DWaiting on the whistle to blow A G DWe stand here waiting on the whistle to blow A G DThey promised us miracles, and the whistle still blows A G DBroken promises but the whistle still blows A G DWaiting on the whistle to blow A G DWe stand here waiting on the whistle to blow

A G Em D

A G Em D on the whistle to blow