Maccoll Kristy - On The Beach guitar tab

Transcribed by Craig Coventry (craigcov61@hotmail.com)

17 November 2001 (In memory of Kirsty)

He's on the Beach by Kirsty MacColl

C G

He was just a friend of mine I'd run into from time to time

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And long before he moved away we used to share a taste for wine

G F

Still I never knew that he was sad that's when

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He said the time had come for him to take a holiday.

CHORUS:

C

And he says its brilliant there

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There's something in the air

     C

And sunshine everywhere

     G

He's on the beach

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I know he's changed somehow

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He writes us postcards now

C

I'm not sure where he is

    G

He's out of reach

When he called me up one day and said that he was going away

I thought he meant a week in france and not ten thousand miles to Sydney bay

Still he had to take his chances

He said the time had come for him to make a move away

CHORUS:

And he says its brilliant there

There's something in the air

And sunshine everywhere

He's on the beach

I know he's changed somehow

He writes us postcards now

I'm not sure where he is

He's on the beach

And I dont blame him

Leaving was the best thing he could do

With all the changes

I just hope he's happy when he does the things he thinks he has to do

And he tries. And he tries. And he tries so hard but all by himself

Somehow he's trying to be someone else

And he says, he says, he says its brilliant there

There's something in the air

And sunshine everywhere

He's on the beach

I know he's changed somehow

He's in Australia

And he's on the beach

And he says its brilliant there