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Sunshine on Leith

The Proclaimers
Tab

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Song

Couldn't get this anywhere, so had a go myself, by the way- anyone who can get me

"Come on nature" please do

Sunshine on Leith

BÜ

1. My heart was broken, my heart was broken,

F BÜ F BÜ F BÜ BÜ7

sorrow, sorrow, sorrow, sorrow.

EÜ Cm

My heart was broken, my heart was broken,

F F7

you saw it, you claimed it, you touched it, you saved it.

BÜ

2. My tears are drying, my tears are drying

F BÜ F BÜ F BÜ BÜ7

thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou.

EÜ Cm

My tears are drying, my tears are drying,

F F7

your beauty and kindness made tears clear my blindness.

Cm F BÜ EÜ F BÜ - BÜ7

While I'm worth my room on this earth, I will be with you.

EÜ F BÜ EÜ

While the chief, puts sunshine on Leith,

F - F7

I'll thank him for his work, and your birth and my bi.....rth.

F

Yeah, yeah, yeah !

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|-----------31--1--------------------------------------|
|-32320-----3—20------32320---0-2/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/--|
|-----------------------3------------------------------|
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(please note: /\/\ does not indicate vibrato, but tremolo which is the rapid repetition of the note.)

+ repeat verse 1 + CHORUS

F F7

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah !

+ BÜ - EÜ - EÜ - F BÜ - EÜ - F - F7 (2x) ....

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