Hey Blue Eyes

	  		


Standard Tuning 
 
Capo on the 3rd fret 





  Intro:      C      G      C      G 


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 They're holding a committee of treason and lies 
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 Double speak and sedition then somebody dies 
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 From the hills the smell of lilacs then the repeat of guns 
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 When she closes the window and draws the blinds her first touch sucks the air from my lungs 


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 Hey Blue Eyes, what you doing tonight 
C         G    D        G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, it's alright 


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 She says, "In this house we've abandoned history, in this house there are no laws 
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 Just the false taste of paradise and then the fall 
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 In this house the guilty go unpunished and blood and silence prevail 
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 Here the dead remain nameless, the nameless remain jailed" 


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 Hey Blue Eyes, what you doing tonight 
C         G    D        G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, it's alright 


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 In this house there's just the dust of bones, the basement's filled with liars 
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 In this house our sons and daughters are spilled like wine 
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 So come close my pretty darling and let me feel your disease 
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 Tonight I'll have you naked and crawling at the end of my leash 


C         G    C                  G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, what you doing tonight 
C         G    D        G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, it's alright 


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 She says, "In this house it's so easy to set a world on fire 
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 All you need is the need and the money and a soul full of reckless desire 
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 Upstairs the landlord is dining here with his criminal friends 
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 Don't worry, they'll have the bags packed and be long gone before the real fucking begins" 


C         G    C                  G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, what you doing tonight 
C         G    D        G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, it's alright 
C         G    C                  G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, what you doing tonight 
C         G    D        G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, it's alright 


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