"Slainte Mhath"

by Marillion

First, the piano:

--#----------------------------------

-------------------------------------		O = 1/4 note
o = 1/8 note
-----------------------O-------------

-------------------------------------		(4 times)
O	 o		o
--------------o--------------o-------

---      ---   ---      ---
o        o     o        o

Then, some chords:

[D] [C]	  [Am] [G]	(4 times)

Now, a guitar:

e ----------------------------
b -4-3-4---------4-3-4------6-
g --------3-5-3---------3-5---	(repeat this forever and ever)
d ----------------------------
a ----------------------------
e ----------------------------
chords:	  [F]            [Eb]

Time for some singing:

A [F] hand held over a [Eb] candle in angst fuelled bra[F]vado [Eb]
A [F] carbon trail [Eb] scores a moist stretched [F] palm [Eb]

(etc.)

And you [C] listen with a [F] tear in [Bb] your eye
to their [C] hopes and be[F]trayels and your [Bb] only reply
is Slainte mhath.

The guitar-riff starts again, with the same chords:

[F] Princes in exile [Eb] raising the standard Dram[F]buie [Eb]
Pa[F]rading their anecdotes [Eb] tired from old cam[F]paigns [Eb]

(etc.)

Take it a[Ab]way
Take it a[Bb]way
Take it a[Csus4]way
Take it a[Bbsus4]way, take it away
Take it a[Csus7]way, take it away
Take me a[C]way! [Bb] [F]
[C] [Bb] [F]

at Flanders and [Bb] Bilston [F] Glen
from the tears of its [Bb] broken [F] men

(etc.)

And that's all folks!

Stefan (pronounced: Stay-fun) Frank
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

(With thanks to Mark van 't Zet for the tab-notation)