The Spirit Of Man by Chris Deburgh

The Spirit Of Man chords by Chris Deburgh

Guitar chords with lyrics

song: The Spirit Of Man
artist: Chris de Burgh
from the 1986 A&M Album Into the Light
Playing time 4:40

transcribed by Gunter Kohl (kohl@kph.uni-mainz.de)

If the transcription contains mistakes, if you think one chord should be
replaced by another one, please mail to me or send a corrected file to

Intro: GGCD (4 times)

    G               C      G
1) I'm chasing a shadow, ...,
2) There's a fighter inside who ...
     C             G
1) It's dipping and diving like ...
2) We are what we are and ...
        C             D         G   C G
1) And every time I get near it ...
2) Write the words in the sand that this ...


Ref1:
      bm                   C
You may  run from the sea, ...
Oh you may fall to your knees,  But ...
    D
to survive;
        G          C
It's shining again,
    D    G          C
It's shining again - ...
It's shining again - the ...
    D    G
It's shining a...

     G            C      G
3) Ah remember the first day ...,
4) Oh look back to the future ...
    C             G
3) The whole world was watching, ...,
4) It wasn't all battles ...,
      C             D       G   C G
3) It was hard to believe he was ...
4) We have brought to this place a ...

Ref2:
     bm                   C
We may  reach for the ...
Oh in the darkest hour ...
     D
comes to life;
   D     G          C
It's shining again - the ...
It's shining again - the ..
It's shining again - the ...
     G         C          D
And we work - aha - for the ...,
Yea we work - aha - for the ....
Yea we work - ...,
Yea we work - aha - for the ...,
Yea we work - aha - for that ...
Yea we work - aha - for a ...
And we work - aha - just to ...
    Eb         D
Come inside and ...

1) stnaza instr.
Ref2:
      bm                   C
We may   reach for the ...,
Ooh in the darkest hour ...
     D
comes to life;
   D     G         C
It's shining again - the ...
It's shining again - ....,
It's shining again ....

(fade out)

the chord C in the refrain could be played:

^0---3----- (it should give an uprising feeling)
|1-3-3-----
|0---------
|2---------
|3---------
|----------

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