Lights Of Taormina Chords

Lights of Taormina by Mark Knopfler from Tracker album
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Key: B-flat Major
Time: 4/4
 
 
CAPO: 3
 
 
C/G....................[332010]
D/A....................[x00232]
 
 
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         G
There’s laughter in the darkness
 C                            G
Music floating in across the bay
           G
He’s half listening and wondering
 Em                              D
How he could have let her slip away
    C
So long ago but still he wants to know
               G        C/G
If anyone has seen her
          G
And he’s sitting out in the night
         C             D             G    D
Looking down upon the lights of Taormina
 
 
           G                          C
They were young and love was shining
                         G
Like the colours of the rainbow
   G
Desire felt like choking
           Em                  D/A
Love was smoking under the volcano
         C
He can still taste her kisses
                               G    C/G
Sweet as the red wine from Messina
          G
Now he’s sitting out in the night
         C             D             G
Looking down upon the lights of Taormina
 
 
C
 
Seems like another lifetime
                                   G
When they rambled along the shore
 
Seems like another lifetime
                                      C
She used to call him her sweet senor
 
Maybe in another lifetime
                         G
On a pathway to the sea
                        D
Maybe there they’ll be
 
 
           G
The crowd calls for the emperor
        C                          G
Raise their hands to hail another king
          G
But he’s been so long a wanderer
  Em                             D
Another crowd can never mean a thing
    C
He came, he saw, he conquered
                                    G    C/G
Ten thousand voices roared in the arena
          G
Now he’s sitting out in the night
         C             D             G
Looking down upon the lights of Taormina
 
 
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               G
He hears the chimes of history
 C                             G
Myths of gods and men forever ringing
          G
Ancient dreams in all their mystery
 Em                          D
Wars for Sicily and Spartan women
        C
In the mists of antiquity
                                  G    C
Ships of war set sail from Carthagina
          G
Now he’s sitting out in the night
         C             D             G    C
Looking down upon the lights of Taormina
 G
Sitting out in the night
         C             D             G
Looking down upon the lights of Taormina
 
 
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