Del Amitri, Be My Downfall (1992)
Key: :[Ab] (w: Justin Currie)
INTRO: ^
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VERSE 1:
[Ab] The bus is pulling
[Db] out, and I guess I'd better
[Ab] go
Be-
[Bbm]-fore I make a
[Db] grave mistake, and let my feelings
[Eb] show
[Ab] And twenty miles a-
[Db]-way, she waits alone for
[Ab] me
But
[Bbm] when I try to
[Db] picture her, you're the one I
[Eb] see
And in an-
[Db]-other situ-
[Ab]-ation, I could put
[Eb] up a
[Db] fight
But you will be
[Eb] my downfall to-^
[Ab]-night
[Db] ^
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VERSE 2:
[Ab] So the night is coming
[Db] down, drowing us in
[Ab] blue
And
[Bbm] it all points to-
[Db]-ward the things, we know we shouldn't
[Eb] do
[Ab] And as I look at
[Db] you, and fall under your
[Ab] spell
Well I
[Bbm] know I should be
[Db] thinking of her, lying there her-
[Eb]-self
And when
[Db] faced with temp-
[Ab]-tation, you know a man should
[Eb] stand a
[Db] fight
But
[Bbm] you will be my
[Eb] downfall to-
[Ab]-night
CHORUS:
Be my
[Cm] downfall, be
[Eb] my great regret
Be the
[Bbm] one girl, that I'll
[Eb] never forget
[Bbm] Be my undoing, be my slow road to
[Eb] ruin to-
[Ab]-night
BREAK: ^
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REPEAT CHORUS:
VERSE 3:
[Ab] So the bus is pulling
[Db] out and I'm grounded here with
[Ab] you
And I
[Bbm] want to say the
[Db] sweet things babe I've always wanted
[Eb] to
So
[Db] tell me now the
[Ab] tail-lights have gone
[Eb] out of
[Db] sight
Baby want you be my
[Eb] downfall once again to-
[Ab]-night
[Ab open]