MARK KNOPFLER’S

decanted

Lights of Taormina

Key: B-flat Major

Time: 4/4

CAPO: 3

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There's laughter in the darkness

Music floating in across the bay

He's half listening and wondering

How he could have let her slip away

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C G

G

Em D/A

So long ago but still he wants to knowIf anyone has seen her And he's sitting out in the nightLooking down upon the lights of Taormina

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G C/G

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C D/A G D/A

They were young and love was shining

Like the colours of the rainbow

Desire felt like choking

Love was smoking under the volcano

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G

G

Em D/A

He can still taste her kisses

Sweet as the red wine from Messina

Now he's sitting out in the night

Looking down upon the lights of Taormina

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G C/G

G

C D/A G

Seems like another lifetime

When they rambled along the shore

Seems like another lifetime

She used to call him her sweet senor

Maybe in another lifetime

On a pathway to the sea

Maybe there they'll be

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G

C

GD7

The crowd calls for the emperor

Raise their hands to hail another king

But has been so long a wanderer

Another crowd can never mean a thing

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C G

G

Em D7

He came, he saw, he conquered

Ten thousand voices roared in the arena

Now he's sitting out in the night

Looking down upon the lights of Taormina

C

G C/G

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C D/A G

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He hears the chimes of history

Myths of gods and men forever ringing

Ancient dreams in all their mystery

Wars for Sicily and Spartan women

In the mists of antiquity

Ships of war set sail from Carthagina

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C G

G

Em D/A

C

G C

Now he's sitting out in the night

Looking down upon the lights of Taormina

Sitting out in the night

Looking down upon the lights of Taormina

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The crowd calls for the emperor Raise their hands to hail another king But he's been so long a wanderer Another crowd can never mean a thing

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