ABBA - Slipping Through My Fingers

[verse 1]
Bb               Bbm
Schoolbag in hand
            F           Am
She leaves home in the early morning
Bb       Bbm
Waving goodbye
        F               Am
With an absent-minded smile
Bb           Bbm
I watch her go
        F               Am
With a surge of that well-known sadness
Bb               C               F
And I have to sit down for a while

[pre-chorus]
    Bb                C/E          F       A
The feeling that I'm losing her forever
    Bb              C            F        F/A
And without really entering her world
    Bb              C/E           F              Csus4         Fsus4   F
I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter, that funny little girl

[chorus]
                      Bb             F
Slipping through my fingers all the time
          Am           Gm
I try to capture every minute
     Bb       F
The feeling in it
                     Csus4  C       F
Slipping through my fingers all the time
             Bb                F
Do I really see what's in her mind
            Am                 Gm
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
      Bb        F
She keeps on growing
                      Csus4  C      F
Slipping through my fingers all the time

[verse 2]
Bb               Bbm
Sleep in our eyes
        F       Am
Her and me at the breakfast table
Bb       Bbm
Barely awake
F                   Am
I let precious time go by
Bb               Bbm
Then when she's gone
              F        Am
There's that odd melancholy feeling
Bb               C             F
And a sense of guilt I can't deny

[pre-chorus]
        Bb             C/E       F       A
What happened to the wonderful adventures
        Bb        C                 F  F/A
The places I had planned for us to go (slipping through my fingers all the time)
Bb                    C/E
Well some of that we did
             F
But most we didn't
   Csus4             Fsus4   F
And why I just don't know

[chorus]
                      Bb             F
Slipping through my fingers all the time
          Am           Gm
I try to capture every minute
     Bb       F
The feeling in it
                     Csus4  C       F
Slipping through my fingers all the time
             Bb                F
Do I really see what's in her mind
            Am                 Gm
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
      Bb        F
She keeps on growing
                      Csus4  C      F
Slipping through my fingers all the time

[verse]
Bb                      C                  F       A
Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
Bb                     C               F
And save it from the funny tricks of time
  F/A               Bb   C  F
Slipping through my fingers

[solo]
Bb  F  Am  Gm  Bb  F  Csus4  C  F

F Csus4 C F Am Gm Bb F                    Csus4           F
                Slipping through my fingers all the time

[outro]
Bb             Bbm
Schoolbag in hand
            F          Am
She leaves home in the early morning
Bb       Bbm              F            Am
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile
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