Proclaimers - Letter From America guitar chord

A fantastic song from a fantastic band.  Give it a go and give it 'laldy'

as we say in Scotland. Enjoy this one that should have been tabbed ages ago.

brucereid@bigfoot.com.

Bruce.

The Proclaimers - Letter from America

Intro - C     G      Am     G

        C     G      Am     G

CHORUS

         C

When you go will you send back

    F      G     C

A letter from America

         C

Take a look up the railtrack

       F   G     C

From Miami to Canada

  F

Broke off from my work the other day

Am

I spent the evening thinking about

  Am7                Am

All the blood that flowed away

  F

Across the ocean to the second chance

  Am                             F                   G

I wonder how it got on when it reached the promised land?

CHORUS

  F

I've looked at the ocean

Tried hard to imagine

Am

The way you felt the day you sailed

Am7                 Am

From Wester Ross to Nova Scotia

F

We should have held you

We should have told you

Am

But you know our sense of timing

F                  G

We always wait too long

CHORUS

C           G

lochaber no more

Am          G

Sutherland no more

C           G

Lewis no more

Am          G

Skye no more......  ( X  3 )

F

I wonder my blood

Will you ever return

Am

To help us kick the life back

Am7            Am

To a dying mutual friend

F

Do we not love her?

Do we not say we love her?

Am

Do we have to roam the world

F                    G

To prove how much it hurts?

CHORUS

C           G

Bathgate no more

Am          G

Linwood no more

C          G

Methil no more

Am         G

Irvine no more  (4 times, then last line on 4th time 'Lochaber no more')