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"Wish you were here" by Pink Floyd
album: "Wish you were here" 1975



Riff:
(v = hold)

E:----3------------------------------------------
A:--------(0-)2---------------------------------- 
D:----------------0-2vvvvvvvvvv--2------2--0-----   x2
G:---------------------------------0-------------
B:-----------------------------------------------
e:-----------------------------------------------

E:----3------------------------------------------
A:--------(0-)2----------------------2--0vvvvvvvv
D:---------------0-2vvvvvvvvvv--2--0-------------   x2
G:-----------------------------------------------
B:-----------------------------------------------
e:-----------------------------------------------

E:----------3--3vvvvvvvvv
A:----2--0---------------
D:-----------------------  x1
G:-----------------------
B:-----------------------
e:-----------------------



Intro:
    Three (3) times riff.
   After first riff, supporting guitar playing 
   I don't have the other guitar solo. Too difficult for me.:)
   Em - G - Em - G - Em - A - Em - A - G (covering whole riff)


1. Verse:

   C                        D     
   So, so you think you can tell? 

               Am                   G
   Heaven from hell? Blue skys from pain.

                        D                        C
   Can you tell a green field, from a cold steel rail

                  Am                         G
   A smile from a vail? Do you think you can tell.


2. Verse:
   
   G                       C
   And did they get you to trade?

                   D                     Am
   Your heroes for ghosts. Hot ashes for trees.

                     G     
   And hot air for a cool breeze.

                    D                   C
   Cold comfort for change. And did you exchange

                          Am                           G
   A 'walk on part in the war', for a lead role in the cage.


Interlude:

   Riff 1 (one) time.


Chorus:

   C                               D
   How I wish, how I wish you were here.

   
             Am                        
   Were just two lost souls, swimming in a fish bowl.
 
   G                 D 
   Year, after year. Running over the same old ground.

   C                                Am                   G    
   What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

Outtro:

   Riff x2.
   
Optional: 
   Do like Roger! Sing. "ooooooooooooh. How I wish you were here..." several times.
   at the same time as you play the riff one more time.


Enjoy!

 
              by Bård Husby
                 husbyb@online.no

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