Slipping Through My Fingers Chords & Tabs

by ABBA

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Pattern 1:
BPM: 68
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 1, 101, 1, 202, 1, 101]

[Verse 1]
G               Gm
Schoolbag in hand
            D           F#m         
She leaves home in the early morning
G       Gm    
Waving goodbye
        D               F#m
With an absent-minded smile
G           Gm
I watch her go
        D               F#m            
With a surge of that well-known sadness
G               A               D 
And I have to sit down for a while

[Pre-Chorus]
    G                A/C#          D   F#
The feeling that I'm losing her forever
    G              A            D    D/F#
And without really entering her world
    G              A/C#           D              Asus4         Dsus4 D
I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter, that funny little girl

[Chorus]
                      G             D   
Slipping through my fingers all the time
          F#m           Em   
I try to capture every minute
     G       D   
The feeling in it
                     Asus4  A       D   
Slipping through my fingers all the time
             G                D   
Do I really see what's in her mind
            F#m                 Em    
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
      G        D    
She keeps on growing
                      Asus4  A      D   
Slipping through my fingers all the time

[Verse 2]
G             Gm 
Sleep in our eyes
        D         F#m            
Her and me at the breakfast table
G       Gm  
Barely awake
      D                F#m
I let precious time go by
G                Gm 
Then when she's gone
             D         F#m         
There's that odd melancholy feeling
G               A              D 
And a sense of guilt I can't deny

[Pre-Chorus]
        G             A/C#       D       F#
What happened to the wonderful adventures
        G        A                 D  D/F#                                      
The places I had planned for us to go (slipping through my fingers all the time)
G                    A/C#
Well some of that we did
             D    
But most we didn't
   Asus4             Dsus4 D
And why I just don't know

[Chorus]
                      G             D   
Slipping through my fingers all the time
          F#m           Em   
I try to capture every minute
     G       D   
The feeling in it
                     Asus4  A       D   
Slipping through my fingers all the time
             G                D   
Do I really see what's in her mind
            F#m                 Em    
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
      G        D    
She keeps on growing
                      Asus4  A      D   
Slipping through my fingers all the time

[Verse]
G                      A                  D     F#
Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
G                     A               D  
And save it from the funny tricks of time
  D/F#               G   A D
Slipping through my fingers

[Solo]
G D F#m Em G D Asus4 A D
G                   Asus4           D   
Slipping through my fingers all the time

[Outro]
G             Gm 
Schoolbag in hand
            D          F#m          
She leaves home in the early morning
G       Gm              D            F#m  
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile