Biography:
The Divine Comedy is a baroque pop band now based in Dublin, Ireland, fronted by Neil Hannon.
Neil Hannon, Originally from Derry, has been the only ever-present member of the band, being its founder in 1989 when he was joined by John McCullagh and Kevin Traynor. Their first album, the heavily R.E.M.-influenced and now-deleted Fanfare for the Comic Muse, enjoyed little success though. A couple of equally unsuccessful EPs - Timewatch (1991); Europop (1992) - were to follow
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Other songs:
- Catherine The Great
- Funny Peculiar
- Have You Ever Been In Love
- How Can You Leave Me On My Own
- I Joined The Foreign Legion (to Forget)
- Neapolitan Girl
- A Desperate Man
- A Lady Of A Certain Age
- Absent Friends
- At The Indie Disco
- Bad Ambassador
- Becoming More Like Alfie
- Come Home Billy Bird
- Down In The Streets Below
- Everyone Knows Except You
- Eye Of The Needle
- I Joined The Foreign Legion To Forget
- I Like
- If
- Love What You Do
- Mastermind
- Mother Dear
- National Express
- Our Mutual Friend
- Perfect Lovesong
- Songs Of Love
- Summerhouse
- Sunrise
- The Light Of Day
- The Pact
- To Die A Virgin
- To The Rescue
- Tonight We Fly
- Woman Of The World
- Your Daddys Car
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INTRO (These are trumpets in the original but you can still play the chords with the guitar)
(Single strums until final C)
C Dm C Dm C
C
Absent friends, here's to them
And happy days
Am F
We thought that they would never end
C
Here's to absent friends
C
Little Jean Seberg seemed
So full of life
Am F
But in those eyes such troubled dreams
C
Poor little Jean
C
Woodbine Willie couldn't rest until he'd
Am F
Given every bloke a final smoke before the killing
Dm C
Old Woodbine Willie
D
Steve McQueen jumped the first one clean
Bm G
But the great escape he tried to make was not to be
D
Maybe next time Steve
D
Laika flew through inky blue
Bm G
'Til Laika neared the atmosphere and Laika knew
D
Laika's life was through
(Single strums all through this verse)
Am Dm C Bm
Am A
Oscar Wilde was a lonely child
Am C F Am D
He fought and won acceptance from the world
Dm D G
They smiled, they laughed, they praised
C (on the C back the normal strumming)
They drove poor Oscar to his grave
C
Absent friends, here's to them
And happy days
Am F
We thought that they would never end
C
But they always end
Am F C
Raise your glasses then to absent friends
(Single strums until final C)
C Dm C Dm C
C
Absent friends, here's to them
And happy days
Am F
We thought that they would never end
C
Here's to absent friends
C
Little Jean Seberg seemed
So full of life
Am F
But in those eyes such troubled dreams
C
Poor little Jean
C
Woodbine Willie couldn't rest until he'd
Am F
Given every bloke a final smoke before the killing
Dm C
Old Woodbine Willie
D
Steve McQueen jumped the first one clean
Bm G
But the great escape he tried to make was not to be
D
Maybe next time Steve
D
Laika flew through inky blue
Bm G
'Til Laika neared the atmosphere and Laika knew
D
Laika's life was through
(Single strums all through this verse)
Am Dm C Bm
Am A
Oscar Wilde was a lonely child
Am C F Am D
He fought and won acceptance from the world
Dm D G
They smiled, they laughed, they praised
C (on the C back the normal strumming)
They drove poor Oscar to his grave
C
Absent friends, here's to them
And happy days
Am F
We thought that they would never end
C
But they always end
Am F C
Raise your glasses then to absent friends
The Doo Wop
The Doobie Broth (...)
The Doors
The Doubleckicks
The Dovells
The Dø
The Eagles
The Eames Era
The Earls
The Eden Project