EMPTY CHAIRS AT EMPTY TABLES Lyrics by

BERT KRETZMER & ALAIN BOUBLIL

Andante (J = 88) Am9

Music by CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHONBERG

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- - There's a pain

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-- - Emp- ty chairs at emp - ty ta - bles Now my friends are dead and

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And t o - m o r - row ne - ver came.

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From the ra - ble in tlie cor - ner tliey could

-- a world re - born And they rose with vl )i - ces

r l l ic . 1 ~ 1 2 I can licar them 'tiow The ve - ry words that they had ,

- sung Be - their :om - mu-nion last (

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un rhe lone-ly bar - ri - cade at dawn. Oh, my fnenos, my friends for - f3 , .

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spc - ken there's a pain goes on , and on. / . , A i l

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8 floor - Emp- tr .. c...p- ty ta - bles Where my

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1 friends will meet no more J Oh, my friends, my friends, don't

; ask me What your sac- ri - fice was for.

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Empty chairs at empty ta-bles, where my friends will sing , no more.