Biography:
The Proclaimers are a Scottish band composed of identical twin brothers, Charlie and Craig Reid (born 5 March 1962, in Leith). They are probably best known for the songs "Letter from America", "I'm On My Way" and "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)". The band tours extensively throughout Europe and other continents. They have released eleven studio albums from 1987 until the present, as well as two compilation albums and a DVD.
Craig Reid and Charlie Reid were born in Leith, Scotland in 1962, and grew up in Edinburgh, Cornwall and Auchtermuchty.
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Other songs:
- I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
- Letter From America
- Sunshine On Leith
- Act Of Remembrance
- Beautiful Truth
- Cap In Hand
- Come On Nature
- Free Market
- I Hate My Love
- I Met You
- Im Gonna Be 500 Miles
- Im On My Way
- In My Home
- In Recognition
- Its Saturday Night
- King Of The Road
- Lady Luck
- Lets Get Married
- Life With You
- Like Comedy
- Make My Heart Fly
- Misty Blue
- My Old Friend The Blues
- Oh Jean
- Over And Done With
- Role Model
- Sean
- Spinning Around In The Air
- Streets Of Edinburgh
- Teardrops
- The Part That Really Matters
- Then I Met You
- Theres A Touch
- Throw The R Away
- What Do You Do
- What Makes You Cry
- When Youre In Love
- Whole Wide World
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
All credit to Tony. I've just tinkered to the way I like to play this.
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Let me give praise to your sparkling eyes and your colored hair
Let me spend ages on poetic phrases to show I care
(Strumming kicks in)
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Let me go grazing on dapple green pastures where you're the mare
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Let me rephrase that, I think there's a better line there
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Spinning around in the air
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Let me donate something to a kids charity of your choice
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For you I would willingly be a worse traitor than William Joyce
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If I could sing I would sing you a song in Sam Cooke's voice
G Am D
Let me rephrase that, I think there's a better line there
D G
Spinning around in the air
C G
Are you happy now say yeah yeah yeah
C G
Are you really happy now say yeah yeah yeah
Bm
Tell me where it hurts
Em
It hurts there and there and there
Am Am
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C G
Ohh, are you happy now say yeah yeah yeah yeah
C G
Ohh, are you really happy now say yeah yeah yeah
Bm
Tell me where it hurts
Em
It hurts there and there and there
Am Am
Adverbs and nouns, juicy and round
D E
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Madame Onassis took Gary's old glasses and put them on
A Bm E A
She said, I see ships and she started to quip about old Boston
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I climbed over houses to climb upon you, what did I do wrong
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Let me rephrase that, I think there's a better line there
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Spinning around in the air
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G Am D G
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b-----0-0---0-0----1-1----1-1---3-3---3-3---0-0---0-0-----|
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E---3-----3--------------------------------0-----0--------| (x2)
(Sang to intro)
Let me give praise to your sparkling eyes and your colored hair
Let me spend ages on poetic phrases to show I care
(Strumming kicks in)
G Am D G
Let me go grazing on dapple green pastures where you're the mare
Am D
Let me rephrase that, I think there's a better line there
D D
Spinning around in the air
G Am D G
Let me donate something to a kids charity of your choice
G Am D G
For you I would willingly be a worse traitor than William Joyce
G Am D G
If I could sing I would sing you a song in Sam Cooke's voice
G Am D
Let me rephrase that, I think there's a better line there
D G
Spinning around in the air
C G
Are you happy now say yeah yeah yeah
C G
Are you really happy now say yeah yeah yeah
Bm
Tell me where it hurts
Em
It hurts there and there and there
Am Am
Adverbs and nouns, juicy and round
D G Am D G
Spinning around in the air-------------------------------------
G | Am | D | G
C G
Ohh, are you happy now say yeah yeah yeah yeah
C G
Ohh, are you really happy now say yeah yeah yeah
Bm
Tell me where it hurts
Em
It hurts there and there and there
Am Am
Adverbs and nouns, juicy and round
D E
Spinning around in the air-------
A Bm E A
Madame Onassis took Gary's old glasses and put them on
A Bm E A
She said, I see ships and she started to quip about old Boston
A Bm E A
I climbed over houses to climb upon you, what did I do wrong
A(one strum) Bm(one strum) E
Let me rephrase that, I think there's a better line there
E A
Spinning around in the air
A | Bm | E | A (x4 to finish)
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