Marillion - Slainte Mhath (First Version) Chords and Tabs

Marillion - Slainte Mhath First Version: chords and tabs for the song. Watch chords and tablatures for all songs of the singer (group) Marillion. Other chords and tabs for the "Slainte Mhath" can find at the bottom of the page.

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"Slainte Mhath"

by Marillion

First, the piano:

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-------------------------------------           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]

From the [C] dream on a the barbed wire
at Flanders and [Bb] Bilston [F] Glen
From a [C] Clydeside that rusts
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)