Paul Heaton

The Snowman Chords

The Snowman
Recorded by Paul Heaton and Jaqui Abbott

Another song from the album 'What Have We Become'

Please comment below if you think any of the chords, or the tab aren't right and I will amend.



Chords and tab all relevant to CAPO AT FRET 8 (key of Ab)

Intro
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B|- - 1- - -1 - -  -  1 - - - - - - 0- - - 0- - - - - - - - - - - - - 1- -  |
G|- - - - - - - 0- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  |

C                                   G
Snowman doesn’t really melt he just slowly falls apart
    F                   G       C
Cos no one built a snow girl to heal his broken heart
   G                                  F
We walk through life like snowmen and gradually we melt
    C N.C.
Cos no one seems to understand the feelings that we felt
             C                  G
Our love somehow in this winter rain
                  F     G                  C
Left just hat and scarf beneath the window pane
Am                   Ab+      Am7   
Spring pops his head out from underneath the sheets
        Am               Ab+      C
And the cold and dark of winter begins its long retreat
Am                         Ab+    Am7         D7    
Blossom brightly doffs his hat at everyone he greets
        F  N.C.                             C
And the love you showed for me has come and gone
C                                      G
We’re Guy Fawkes dummy roaming town we beg for 50p
F                       G              C
Hold our freezing hands out thinking I wish this wasn’t me
G                             F
Carrot for a nose ain’t bad a piece of coal for eyes
  C  N.C.
A bunch of twigs for lovin’ arms where nothing can disguise
              C                G
This night is done I’m burning bright
                       F     G        C
I’m off with snowman’s heart into the night 
Am               Ab+                Am7          
Winter drops its silent leaves like bombs upon our sun
       Am               Ab+                     C
Like a swarm of bees we embrace the breeze with nowhere left to run
        Am            Ab+                     Am7              D7 
And the fly begins to yearn the warmth of the web the spider’s spun
        F                                   C
And the love you showed for me has come and gone 
C                         G
In hat and scruffy jacket strangers pass me by
F                  G             C
Confident November here and it’s time for us to die


Thanks to Malcolm Ion for requesting this song. 
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