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The Spirit Of Man Chords 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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