Luka Bloom

The Man Is Alive

Luka Bloom

Cavaco chords Easy level Easy
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Intro 
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Night sometimes seems dangerous. We wonder what it hides 
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It sometimes brings us closer and forever changes our lives 
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Strangers talk in open ways we cannot always understand 
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Who have not felt the loving touch, seen the guiding hand 
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I was brought up near the riverside, in a quiet Irish town 
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An 18 month-old baby, the night they laid my daddy down 
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Everyone knew everyone, everybody else as well 
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My home was filled with sorrow then, too much for me to tell 
 

 
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The man is alive, alive and breathing. It's taken me so long to see 
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The man is alive, alive and breathing 
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The man is alive in me 
 

 
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We stood among the totem poles, under the Canadian moonlight 
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She told me all about her childhood days on a Vancouver mountain side 
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An 18 month-old baby the night her daddy passed away 
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We stood and watched the darkness flowing into the light of day 
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The night sometimes seems dangerous. We wonder what it hides 
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It sometimes brings us closer and forever changes our lives 
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Strangers talk in open ways we cannot always understand 
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But we begin to feel the loving touch, see the guiding hand 
 

 
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The man is alive, alive and breathing. It's taken me so long to see 
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The man is alive, alive and breathing 
Em          A7      D   D G D 
The man is alive in me 
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