Learn how to play From Afar by Vance Joy

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Difficulty: Novice
Tuning: Standard Tune Your Guitar
Capo: 5th
Note that with the C, Vance occasionally hammers the D and G string:

e----------------------|  e----------------------|
B--1----1--------------|  B--1----1--------------|
G----------------------|  G------0h2-------------|
D--2---0h2-------------|  D--2-------------------|  
A--3----3--------------|  A--3----3--------------| 
E----------------------|  E----------------------|       



Intro:  (G) (C) (G)   x2


(G)             (C)            (G)
You told me boy look the other way

(G)             (C)             (G)
You told me boy bite your tongue

(G)                (C)
Yes that's not the way,

(G)                 (C)
Yeah that's not the way

    (D)           (C)                  (G)      (C) (G)
Ah that's not the way that friends behave

      (D)              (C)                  (G)
Ah that's just not the way that friends behave

      (C)       (G)
Oh no, no, no,

      (C)       (G)  (C)  (G)
No, no, no, no



(G)
You lined me up

(C)
Across the room

(G)
Two falling sparks

      (D)
One willing fool

  (Em)           (C)
And I, I always knew

                                    (G)    (C)    (G)
That I would love you from afar


(G)             (C)            (G)
You told me boy look the other way

(G)             (C)           (G)
You told me boy hide those hands

(G)             (C)            (G)         (C)
But I've been living on the crumbs of your love

(G)              (C)     (G)
And I'm starving now


      (D)        (C)             (G)   (C)   (G)
And that is the way that we remain

    (D)             (C)         (G)
Ah that will be the way that we remain

   (C)   (G)
Oh no no no

(C)   (G)  (C)  (G)
No no no no


(G)
You lined me up

(C)
Across the room

(G)
Two falling sparks

       (D)
One willing fool

     (Em)              (C)
And I, I always knew


                                     (G)    (C) (G)
That I would love you from afar



(G)
You lined me up

(C)
Across the room

(G)
Two falling sparks

       (D)
One willing fool

     (Em)         (C)
And I, I always knew

                             (G)   (D)   (D)
That I would love you from afar



Interlude:     (G)  (C)   (G)   (D)   (Em)


             (C)         (G)
It shouldn't come as a surprise

           (D)                     (Em)
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now

              (C)        (G)
It shouldn't come as a surprise

       (D)                         (Em)
She got darling hazel eyes




             (C)         (G)
It shouldn't come as a surprise

           (D)                     (Em)
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now (x4)

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You told me 'boy look the other way'
You told me 'boy bite your tongue'
Yes that's not the way,
Yeah that's not the way
Ah that's not the way that friends behave
Ah that's just not the way that friends behave
Oh no, no, no,
No, no, no, no

You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar

You told me 'boy look the other way'
You told me 'boy hide those hands'
But I've been living on the crumbs of your love
And I'm starving now

And that is just the way that we remain
Ah that will be the way that we remain
Oh no no no
No no no no

You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar

You lined me up
Across the room
Two falling sparks
One willing fool
And I, I always knew
That I would love you from afar

It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now
It shouldn't come as a surprise
She got darling hazel eyes

It shouldn't come as a surprise
What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling now [x4]

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