Points of View (Difford/Tilbrook)
INTRO: Cm/A G Cm/A G
Cm/Eb
I'm impossible she's exciting
G/D D
Bound together with joined up writing
Cm G/D
In the Church I heard a bell ring
Cm/Eb Em
In a bar I heard a girl sing
G Cm/Eb
She sings solo I see double
G/D A/C#
Moments vanish her love so subtle
Cm G/B
I went home it's not surprising
Gm/Bb A
Words were few and realising
CHORUS:
Am7 G
I was deep in my points of view
Am7 G
So interested to talk to you
Am7 G
talk to you talk to you
Am7 G
talk to you talk to you
She' s romantic and I'm selected
Glances swapped and thoughts collected
By her song it's not her singing
Words were few the bell was ringing
On the table my cards are shuffled
Words take time to get so muddled
I'm off home I'm shy but eager
Tomorrow comes I hope to see her
(Do chords from Chorus)
On the stage with her velvet voice
Though some would say that it's just a noise
just a noise just a noise
just a noise just a noise
BRIDGE:
Eb Dm C# Cm Bm Bb A
Am7 G
I bit off more than I could chew
Am7 G
So interested in my points of view
(Do chords from first verse)
Trial and Jury swear on the Bible
I'm too drunk and unreliable
I'm too drunk for conversation
Though I wait for invitation
She's exiting I'm uninvited
Fifteen rounds this love I've fighted
I'll walk home and curse the heavens
Lost on points my heart was flattened
Am7 G
Maybe she had other things to do
Am7 G
And didn't want any points of view
Am7 G (repeat to fade)
Chords painfully figured out by Geordan Rosario (geordan@csua.berkeley.edu). (Thanks a bunch for all those split chords, *Glenn*... ;] )
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His House Her Home (Difford/Tilbrook)
INTRO:
G D C D Em B Em D (2x, first time through piano only)
G D C D
I think to myself when we kiss
Em B Em D
Your husband is watching
G D/F# C D/F#
From his portrait his eyes are looking down
Em B Em D C
On the slipper and stocking
Am
Back against the bookcase
G Em C
Down upon the floor
Am
Empty the decanter
F D G
Slur again for more
REFRAIN:
D G D G D Em B G
His house, Her home, our future in a lover's world
D G D G D Em B C Am
Her son, Her heart, her love for me, tomorrow's world
G D C D
I laugh with myself when your son
Em B Em D
Is watching cartoons
G D/F# C D/F#
In the morning he's looking up to me
Em B Em D C
When we're in the bathroom
Am
Sees me kissing mother
G Em C
Doesn't blink an eye
Am
Asks alot of questions
F D G
Answers hard to find
REFRAIN
AD LIB: A E A E F#m C# F#m E
A E A E F#m C# F#m D
G D C D
I talk to myself when I'm drunk
Em B Em D
And she is still sober
G D/F# C D/F#
Words are so few and far between
Em B Em D C
My arms reach to hold her
Am
Hungry for the love
G Em C
I've rescued from the grave
Am
The past is just a portrait
F D G
The future's ours to frame
REFRAIN
G D G D G D Em B F#m
His house, Her home, our future in a lover's world
C# F#m C# F#m C# A D G
Her son, Her heart, her love for me, tomorrow's world
D G D G D Em B F#m
Her son, her past, our love, our chance
C# F#m C# F#m C# A D
Her home, her son, our love, begun
Transcribed by Geordan Rosario (geordan@csua.berkeley.edu)
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Someone Else's Heart (Difford/Tilbrook)
Intro is done with simple tacets on Am
Am Dm
I got nosy and I read her letter
Am Dm E
I read her diary it's the same story and nothing better,
Dm E
The words remind me of someone else's heart
Dm Am
Has gone and left a mark.
Dm
And the pop music plays
E Am
On the local radio,
G Dm F
There's people on the streets but no one that I know
Am G
And like my heart is now
B7
I know not where they go.
Dm
Same words different meaning
G
Same heart different feeling,
C E
so much for him so much for her 'cause that's past,
Dm Bb F
Now I know about that someone else's heart.
Dm Bb Am
Now I know about that someone else's heart.
Back to intro and tacets on Am
Am Dm
She got nosy and read my letters too
Am Dm
And my notebook surprised to find that
E
love is not so new,
Dm
So we both took
E
Someone else's heart
Dm Am
And walked it through the dark.
Dm
The feeling's so rich
E Am
I turned around to laugh,
G Dm F
We had both indulged in each others past
Am G
To find out that our love
B7
Was true enough to last.
Dm
Same words different meaning
G
Same heart different feeling,
C E
so much for him so much for her 'cause that's past,
Dm Bb F
Now I know about that someone else's heart.
Dm Bb Am
Now I know about that someone else's heart.
someone else's heart
Now I know about that someone else's heart.
someone else's heart
Now I know about that someone else's heart.
someone else's heart
Now I know about that someone else's heart.
someone else's heart
Now I know about that someone else's heart.
Another Nail in My Heart (Difford/Tilbrook)
INTRO: N.C.
B F#/A# F#m
The case is pulled from under the bed
E G# A A#dim B
She made a call to a sympathetic friend and made arrangements
F#/A# F#m
The door was closed, there was a note
I couldn't be bothered
E G# A A#dim G#/C
Maybe I'll choke no more engagements
C#m A
With "where have you been"'s and faraway frowns
E B
Trying to be good by not being round
REFRAIN 1:
E B
So here in the bar the piano man's found
A E
Another nail for my heart
B
And here in the bar the piano man's found
A B C#m C#m/B
Another nail for my heart
AD LIB: B F#/A# F#m E G# A A#dim
B F#/A# F#m E G# A A#dim G#/C
C#m A
That's stupid old bug that kills only love
E B
I want to be good, is that not enough?
REFRAIN 2:
E B
So play me the song that makes it so tough
A E
Another nail for my heart
E B
Then play me the song that makes it so tough
A B C#m C#m/B B
Another nail for my heart
F#/A# F#m
I had excuses, those little boy lies
E G# A A#dim B
That she computed by watching my eyes and told me firmly
F#/A# F#m
She couldn't stand that, I'm bad on her heart
She dropped her makeup and I found the bar
E G# A A#dim G#/C
It concerns me
C#m A
I've had a bad time, now love is resigned
E B
I've been such a fool, I've loved and goodbyed
E B
So here in the bar the piano man's found
A E
Another nail for my heart
B
And here in the bar the piano man's found
A E
Another nail for my heart
B
And here in the bar the piano man's found
A C#m
Another nail for my heart
E B
And here in the bar the piano man's found
A C#m
Another nail for my heart
(repeat last two lines)
E B A E
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N.C. == No Chord
By Your Side (Difford/Tilbrook)
INTRO: Dm Em Am repeating
Am Am Bb Am A
When you're down and you're lonely come to me I'll be your only
Dm Am
Always remember I'll be by your side
Am Bb Am A
Call me up daytime or night I'll always listen every time
Dm Am
If you need me then please believe me -- don't you cry
Dm Em Am Dm Em Am
I'll show concern and I'll keep my word -- I won't stay away
Dm Em Am Dm Em Am
Now and then when your heart's in pain Oh, I'd like to say
Dm Bb Am
Always remember I'll be forever By your side
[Dm Em Am during break]
Am Am Bb Am A
Friends like this are hard to find with time to talk and to confide
Dm Am
If you need me please believe me -- don't you cry
Dm Em Am Dm Em Am
I'll show concern and I'll keep my word -- I won't stay away
Dm Em Am Dm Em Am
Now and then when your heart's in pain Oh, I'd like to say
Dm Bb Am
Always remember I'll be forever By your side
[break Am Dm ad lib]
Dm Em Am Dm Em Am
The secrets kept as we lie in bed I can't keep away
Dm Em Am
Now and then when your heart's in pain
Dm Em Am
Oh, I'd like to say
Dm Bb Dm Em Am
Always remember I'll be forever By your side
Dm Em Am
By your side [repeat last line & ad lib to end]
Cool for Cats (Difford/Tilbrook)
These are the basic chords, you can "jazz it up" by placing subtlties like placing a quick Em between the C and Am. I like to play the C that is after the Eb,on the 3rd fret.
G
The Indians send signals
Em
From the rocks above the pass
C
The cowboys take positions
Am
In the bushes and the grass
Eb
The squaw is with the Corporal
Cm
She is tied against the tree
Eb
She doesn't mind the language
Cm
It's the beating she don't need
Eb
She lets loose all the horses
C
When the Corporal is asleep
G
And he wakes to find the fire's dead
Em
And arrows in his hats
C
And Davy Crockett rides around
F
And says it's cool for cats
Em
it's cool for cats
G
The Sweeney's doing ninety
Em
'Cos they've got the word to go
C
They get a gang of villans
Am
In a shed up at Heathrow
Eb
They're counting out the fivers
Cm
When the hand cuffs lock again
Eb
In and out of Wandsworth
Cm
With the numbers on their names
Eb
It's funny how their missus'
C
Always look the bleeding same
G
And meanwhile at the station
Em
There's a couple of likely lads
C
Who swear like how's your father
F
And they're very cool for cats
Em
They're cool for cats
G
To change the mood a little
Em
I've been posing down the pub
C
On seeing my reflection
Am
I'm looking slightly rough
Eb
I fancy this, I fancy that
Cm
I wanna be so flash
Eb
I give a little muscle
Cm
And I spend a little cash
Eb C
But all I get is bitter and a nasty little rash
G
And by the time I'm sober
Em
I've forgotten what I've had
C F
And everybody tells me that it's cool to be a cat
Em
Cool for cats
G
Shake up at the disco
Em
And I think I've got a pull
C
I ask her lots of questions
Am
And she hangs on to the wall
Eb
I kiss her for the first time
Cm
And then I take her home
Eb
I'm invited in for coffee
Cm
And I give the dog a bone
Eb
She likes to go to discos
C C
But she's never on her own (Occasional live version "and she goes there on her own")
G
I said I'll see you later
Em
And I give her some old chat
C
But it's not like that on the TV
F
When it's cool for cats
Em
It's cool for cats
I Think I'm Go Go (Difford/Tilbrook)
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D-5+B=xx0102
The (Fm) that appears in the chorus is optional for the
second chorus. Squeeze has played it that way live, so
I included it.
For the final verse, don't play the A for the first four
lines. Just play the Dm.
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Dm A Dm
Funny words I cannot read
Dm A Dm
Trams and boats where Strauss is street
Dm A Dm
Milky way and far out looks
Dm A Dm
On your bike and Anne Frank books
G
Down the disco it's clockworktime
E Eb D Db
Where's the humour where am I - I
C
Oh this, world's got smaller
F (Fm)
I'm shaking lots of hands
C
Saying lots of things
F (Fm)
That no one understands
C
You can shake my tree
F (Fm)
But you won't get me
D
Where am I
D-5+B Dm
I think I'm go go, go go, go go....go go
Liquor stores and rodeos
P I X and rock and roll
The freckled face the thin and fat
The drive-in films and drive-in macs
Strip and porno neon signs
Where's the building where am I
CHORUS
Buckingham Palace trains all late
Funny little men all out in the rain
Car front deals and after pubs
Tenth year plays and seedy clubs
And iffy people don't seem to mind
Where's the action where am I
CHORUS
Elephant Ride (Difford/Tilbrook)
Am A Am A
Today is none of our concern
Am A Am A
Today is none of our concern
Am A Am A
Today is none of our concern
A
That rewarding cigarette
F#m Dm A
That burns slowly by the bed
Fills the room with mystery
F#m F
The apple ripens on the tree
C#m Bm (7th Fret) (or a high E)
That protected seal of love
G#m Bm (2nd Fret)
Broken by the flame of fun
A Am
Lying back with Exodus
A
In the arms of lovers trust
Am A Am A
Today is none of our concern
Am A Am A
Today is none of our concern
E E7
That romantic dance of light
A E
From the curtain broken night
E7
Shadows fall on mystery
A F
Love has ripened here for me
C#m Bm (7th Fret) (or a high E)
Stubbing out the cigarette
G#m Bm (2nd Fret)
I see the clothes beside the bed
A Am
As the half light of the day
A
Pulls the sheet up once again
Am A Am A
Today is none of our concern
Am A Am A
Today is none of our concern
E
As the phone hangs by the cord
Am E
As the streets begin to fill
There's no distance anymore
F#m Dm
There's no wanting when you will
C#m Bm (7th Fret) (or high E)
We'll be sleeping through the day
G#m Bm (2nd Fret)
As the world around us turns
A Am
As the phone hangs by the cord
A Am A
Today is none of our concern
A Am A
Today is none of our concern
A Am A
Today is none of our concern
E
Today.
In Quintessence (Difford/Tilbrook)
Riff
C | F G | C | F G
C F G
He smokes himself into double vision
Am Dm G
Leaves his mind on an indecision,
C F G
Thinks he's invented imagination
D Dm E
Says that god is some relation.
Am F
He leaves his cigarette burning on the desk
C F
His clothes and magazines make up such a mess,
Dm G E
Sitting up in bed transistor on his chest
Fm C
in quintessence
Fm C
in quintessence
C F G
He and his friends sit around all evening
Am Dm G
Leaving their laughter upon the ceiling,
C F G
Seems so funny yet it leaves me yawning
D Dm E
Then I find it's the following morning.
Am F
He says his girlfriend lives too far away
C F
Always at a friend's house or on holiday,
Dm G E
His bible of romance hides its self away
Fm C
in quintessence
Fm C
in quintessence
Fm C
in quintessence
Fm C E
in quintessence
Middle (*see note at bottom)
E E6
A 15 year old's browse through life,
E7 E6 E
is fine with his quintessence safe and sound in mind,
E E6 G
Life's an adolescence from time to time
G add C#
With us all
E G Bd Db
in quintessence
Riff
C | F G | C | F G
Solo
D | G A | Bm | Em A | D | G A | Bm | Em A
C F G
In the corner with his book and tissue
Am Dm G
All he can do is pretend to miss you,
C F G
Closed his eyes as he sees her body
D Dm E
Pulls funny faces and that's his hobby
Am F
On the other hand love ain't a happy word
C F
On the other hand love ain't a piece of skirt,
Dm G E
Makes for something special in your football shirt
Fm C
in quintessence
Fm C
in quintessence
Fm C
in quintessence
Fm C
in quintessence
Riff 6x
C | F G | C | F G
End
E Am | C
Note About the Middle: It sounds to me as if this section is built around an E chord with the top string muted, so it climbs and descends on the B string (B-C#-D-C#-G#). After "...sound in mind" the B string sounds muted so the G# is the highest note in the chord. The same is true for the next part with the G chord (B-C#-D-C#).
Jolly Comes Home (Difford/Tilbrook)
INTRO: G
G
She's screaming into his collar
C G/B Am
Beating him on the chest
D Dsus4 D
He's showing her no emotion
C G
Their love's put to the test
G Gsus4/D G
He thinks that he makes her happy
C G/B Am
By simply being there
D Dsus4 D
The silences get longer
C G
The more she pulls her hair
Em Em9/D A/C#
Love can be damaged by silence
C G D
Tied to a ball and chain
Em Em9/D A/C#
Love can be driven to violence
C G D
From what once seemed so tame
C G/B A
Wearing his dinner this evening
C D G
Jolly comes home again
G Gsus4/D
The mule's sitting by the fire
C G/B Am
The house at his control
D Dsus4 D
He hops around the channels
C G
His eyes on film patrol
G Gsus4/D G
She's driven from her senses
C G/B Am
Her mundane life erupts
D Dsus4 D
She leaps up from the sofa
C G
And jumps upon her lump
Love can be damaged by silence
C G D
Tied to a ball and chain
Em Em9/D A/C#
Love can be driven to violence
C G D
From what once seemed so tame
C G/B A
Wearing his dinner this evening
C D G
Jolly comes home again
Gsus4 G
Gsus4 G
Em Em7/D A/C#
C G D
C G/B A
C D
G Gsus4 G
The room was all dark and quiet
C G/B Am
In bed there side by side
D Dsus4 D
There in the small of her back
C G
An olive branch tonight
G
He wants to say he's sorry
D/A G/B C G/B Am
She wants to make him bed
D Dsus4 D
For all the pain she's suffered
C G G/B
In her heart and her head
Em Em9/D A/C#
Love can be damaged by silence
C G D
Tied to a ball and chain
Em Em9/D A/C#
Love can be driven to violence
C G D
From what once seemed so tame
C G/B A
Wearing his dinner this evening
C D G
Jolly comes home again
G Am G/B C G/B A
Wearing his dinner this evening
C D G
Jolly comes home again
Labelled With Love (Difford/Tilbrook)
Intro: B7 E
E
She unscrews the top of a new whiskey bottle
B7
And shuffles about in her candlelit hovel
Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens
E
She smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens
The black and white TV has long seen a picture
E7 A
The cross on the wall is a permanent fixture
B7
The postman delivers the final reminders
A G#m F#m E
She sells off her silver and poodles in China.
E F#m
Drinks to remember I, me and myself
B7
And winds up the clock
E
And knocks dust from the shelf
F#m
Home is a love that I miss very much
B7 A G#m F#m E
So the past has been bottled and labelled with love.
During the war time an American pilot
Made every air raid a time of excitement,
She moved to his prairie and married the Texan
She learnt from a distance how love was a lesson,
He became drinker and she became mother
She knew that one day she'd be one or the other,
He ate himself older, drunk himself dizzy
Proud of her features, she kept herself pretty.
He like a cowboy died drunk in his slumber
Out on the porch in the middle of summer,
She crossed the ocean back home to her family
But they had retired to roads that were sandy,
She moved home alone without friends or relations
Lived in a world full of age reservation,
On moth eaten armchairs she'd say that she'd sod all
The friends who had left her to drink from the bottle.
Letting Go (Difford/Tilbrook)
Intro: Cm9
Am/C Am Dm
She plaits her hair I bite my nails
Fdim C/E- B7/D#- Dm-
We balance love on the scales
Cm Am Dm
I wind the clock and go to bed
G C/E- B7/D#- Dm- A7/C#
Our love is hanging on a thread
Dm Fdim C
She gets undressed I undress too
Am Dm E7
The draft is cold in my bedroom
Cm Eb Fm
We cuddle up and say goodnight
Ab Eb- A7- Dm- Gm
That's all the love there is tonight
Ab Bb
I can't be brave enough
F/A Bb C sus4 - F/A
She cannot say what we're feeling
Bb Csus4- F/A
Day after day
Bb Csus4- F/A
We're going through the motions
Bb C
We find it hard
Eb Dm
To let each other go
INTERLUDE:
Cm-Am-Dm-Ddim- C/E-B7/D#- Dm
Cm Am Dm
She boils the eggs I make the tea
Fdim C/E- B7/D# - Dm
Outside the sun shines on the street
Cm Am Dm
We're at that point where love is gone
G C/E- B7/D# - Dm- A7/C#
The fuse is lit, it won't be long
Dm Fdim C
I take a walk she cleans the house
Am Dm E7
This is the end I'm in no doubt
Cm Eb Fm
But neither one of us can show
Ab Eb- A7- Dm- Gm
The slightest sign of letting go
Ab Bb
I can't be brave enough
F/A Bb Csus4- F/A
She cannot say what we're feeling
Bb Csus4- F/A
Day after day
Bb Csus4- F/A
We're going through the motions
Bb C
We find it hard
Eb Bb/D
To let each other go
Eb Dm
To let each other go
S O L O:
Cm-Am-Dm- G- C/E- B7/D# - Dm
Dm- Fdim- C- Am- Dm- E7
Cm- Eb- Fm- Ab- Eb- A7- Dm- Gm
Ab Bb
I can't be brave enough
F/A Bb Csus4- F/A
She cannot say what we're feeling
Bb Csus4- F/A
Day after day
Bb Csus4- F/A
We're going through the motions
Bb Csus4- F/A
We find it hard
Bb Csus4-
To let each other go
F/A Bb Csus4
I can't be brave enough
F/A Bb Csus4- F/A
She cannot say what we're feeling
Bb Csus4- F/A
Day after day
Bb Csus4- F/A
We're going through the motions
Bb C
We find it hard
Eb Bb/D
To let each other go
Eb Dm
To let each other go
Solo over verse changes and out.
Messed Around (Difford/Tilbrook)
Intro: E E
E
She wants to give up love for good
E
She kicks the fence and splits the wood
E A7
She cries her eyes out in the rain
E
She swears aloud and so again
B7 A7 E
She feels messed around
E
She takes her coat off as it pours
E
The passing daytime she ignores
E A7
Sits with a problem on a bench
E
And with her heel she digs a trench
B7 A7 E
She feels messed around
E
She rips her skirt and tears her dress
E
Climbing over his garden fence
E A7
Mud on her mourning as tears still fall
E
She's in no mood for love at all
B7 A7 A7
She feels messed around
B7 A7
Her door won't shut, her match won't light
B7 A7
The bulb went out, her skirts too tight
B7 A7 E
She feels messed around
B7 A7
The words don't match, her heart won't heal
B7 A7
The phone won't pip, her fruit won't peel,
B7 A7 E
She feels messed around
Solo Chords (ad lib): E A E B A E (keyboards)
E A E B A E (guitar)
F#m B7
She left her self open to him all the time
F#m B7
But always kept off of his cloud
F#m B7
All the king's horses and all the king's men
E B
Have come to mess a - round
E
She wants to give up love for good
E
She kicks the fence and splits the wood
E A7
She cries her eyes out in the rain
E
She swears aloud and so again
B7 A7 E
She feels messed around
B7 A7 E
She feels messed around
B7 A7 E
She feels messed around
Mumbo Jumbo (Difford/Tilbrook)
Intro: F E F E F
F E F E F
Eyebrows plucked and toenails cut,
E Eb Bb Dm/A Gm C
I'll pick you up with a little luck, all prim and proper.
F E F E F
Shaven legs and calls to Fred,
E Eb Bb Dm/A Gm
It all depends oh alright then, I cannot stop her.
C
The makeup box has always got
C/D D Gm C
Ever such a lot of odds and sods, in there to offer.
F E F E F
She needs paints to make her face,
G F# G F# G
And make her late again and again
A
So I'll knock her
Bb
The tick is tocker.
F E
Mumbo jumbo words to say,
Am E Am
Are you coming out,
E Am E A
Coming out to play?
D A D A D
With a broken nose on a sunny day,
A D A
I would bet, I would bet,
D A D A
None of these girls would ever care,
G D/F# E
Or get upset. Or get upset.
Short and fat with a fishnet hat,
And a hungry cat in a nice new flat, with her Scrabble.
Sits by the phone when she's all alone,
And on her own it's a mental home, full of babble.
Writes with charm to uncle farm,
With a broken arm in a broken barn, feeds the cattle.
She hears the hens as she takes the pen,
And it's now and now it's then,
She would saddle.
The dip is dabbled
Kissing curls and boyish girls,
For all the pearls in all the world, wouldn't have me.
If I had oil and money to spoil,
I'd mix with loyal and I get some royal, little lassie.
I'm up at nine down the line,
To watch the time 'till half past five.
I wish they'd sack me
She's at home, the milkman's home
To have a farm and seeds to sow
It makes her happy
The chip is chappie.
End: F E F E F
Piccadilly (Difford/Tilbrook)
A D Intro 8x
A D E A
She's not a picture above somebody's fire
D Bm G C
She sits in a towel with a purple hair dryer,
F E
She waits to get even with me
A D E A
She hooks up her cupcakes and puts on her jumper
D Bm G C
Explains that she'll be late to a worrying mother,
F E
She meets me in Piccadilly
C F C F
A begging folk singer stands tall by the entrance
C F C F
His song relays worlds of most good intentions,
D G D G D G | D G
A five p a ten p in his hat for collection
A D A D
She talks about office she talks about dresses
A D A D
She's seen one she fancies her smile is impressing,
D A G A G
So maybe I'll treat her someday
A D A D
We queue among strangers and strange conversation
A D A D
Love's on the lips of all forms of engagements,
D A G A G
All queuing to see tonight's play
C F C F
A man behind me talks to his young lady
C F C F
He's happy that she is expecting his baby,
D G D G D G | D G
His wife won't be pleased but she's not been round lately
A D E A
The girl was so dreadful we left in a hurry
D Bm G C
Escaped in the rain for an Indian curry,
F E
At the candle lit Taj Mahal
A D E A
My lips to a napkin I called for a taxi
D Bm G C
The invite of eyes made it tense but relaxed me,
F E
My mind took a devious stroll
C F C F
The cab took us home through a night I'd not noticed
C F C F
The neon club lights of adult films and Trini Lopez,
D G D G D G | D G
My arm around love but my acting was hopeless
A D A D
We crept like two thieves from the kettle to the fire
A D A D
We kissed to the sound of the silence that we'd hired,
D A G A G
Now captured, your love in my arms
A D A D
A door open'd slightly a voice spoke in worry
A D A D
Mum went to bed without wind of the curry,
D A G A G
Our secret love made it's advance
C F C F
Like Adam and Eve we took bite on the apple
C F C F
Loose change in my pocket it started to rattle,
D G D G
Heart like a gun was just half of the battle
D G D G
(Heart like a gun was just half of the battle)
D G D G
Like Adam and Eve we took bite on the apple
D G D G
(Heart like a gun was just half of the battle)
D G D G
Loose change in my pocket it started to rattle,
D G D G
(Heart like a gun was just half of the battle)
D G D G
Heart like a gun was just half of the battle
D G D G
(Heart like a gun was just half of the battle)
D G D G
Like Adam and Eve we took bite on the apple
D G D G
(Heart like a gun was just half of the battle)
D G D G
Loose change in my pocket it started to rattle,
D G D G
(Heart like a gun was just half of the battle)
D G D G
Heart like a gun was just half of the battle
D G D G
Heart like a gun was just half of the battle
End
D D A | G A G
She Doesn't Have to Shave (Difford/Tilbrook)
INTRO: chords: A E Bm Bmsus (X24430) Bm
riff notes: (heel-dampened, staccato notes) EDC#B, EDC#AB
A E Bm Bmsus Bm
She was washing the dishes when she burst into tears
A E Bm Bmsus Bm
It was the time of the month she was up to her ears
G (320033) C (add9)(X32033) G C (add9)
I put my arms 'round her neck I said sit down a while
G C (add9) G C (add9)
Cry as much as you like I'll do the dishes
G C (add9) E (G#m)
Tell me what's on your mind ---
F# C# D#m
There's a boiling point that you're bound to reach
B G#m
When it's all your fault and you're half asleep
Bbm
She's lucky she doesn't have to shave
B C# A E Bm Bmsus Bm
I'm so luck I'm not doubled up in pain.
[verse 2 same chords]
[refrain-same chords except end:]
C# D#m E D#m E (B)
... doubled up with pain! oh no! (instrumental)
A F#m
A fairy tale finish, we flaked out on the floor
A F#m
It was match of the day on the TV what's more
[suggested riff notes under chords above: E F# A F# A]
G C(add9) G C (add9)
I fell asleep at halftime we had had a right result
G C (add9) G C (add9)
It was kisses and hugs at the end of the day
G C(add9) E (G#m)
She's the one that I love. ----
[refrain - same until end:]
C# F#
....doubled up in pain.
F# C# D#m B G#m Bbm B C#
(There's a point that you reach, head held down, loss for speech)
F# C# D#m
There's a boiling point that you're bound to reach
B G#m
When it's all your fault and you're half asleep
Bbm
She's so lucky that she doesn't have to shave
B C# F#
I'm so lucky I'm not doubled up in pain.
[repeat to end]
Slaughtered, Gutted and Heartbroken (Difford/Tilbrook)
Intro: A / B / E / / / (4X)
A B E
Slaughtered, gutted and heart-broken
A B E
With no spirit or no soul
A B E
My e - motions have been stolen
A B E
Love has left me with this hole
A B E
Now my heart's a deep dark cavern
A7 G#7 C#m
Empti-ness is all I feel
A B E
I'm the pig she tried to fatten
A B E
And now all I do is squeal
B A E
But things could be worse
B A E
Things could be very bad for me
B A E
O' my dear I find myself
C#m E< E A
A stitch short of a tape-stry
A / B / E / / / (2X)
A B E
Patients on the verge of breaking
A B E
I'm kicking cans a - round the street
A B E
Like a bad cold I need shaking
A B E
Like a fool I had to cheat
A B E
But to me she was an angel
A7 G#7 C#m
And I went and let her down
A B E
The at-traction was so fatal
A B E
That she kicked me from her cloud
B A E
But things could be worse
B A E
Things could be very bad for me
B A E
O' my dear I find myself
C#m E< E A
A stitch short of a tape-stry
A / B / E / / / ( 8X ad lib)
A B E
The light was on there in her window
A B E
I saw her shadow moving around
A B E
I tried to stand on tip toes
A B E
Hoping that she might look down
A B E
I wanted so bad to call her
A7 G#7 C#m
But I had to walk a - way
A B E
Slaughtered, gutted and heart-broken
A B E
Another diamond down the drain
Refrain: 2X
B A E
But things could be worse
B A E
Things could be very bad for me
B A E
O' my dear I find myself
C#m E< E A
A stitch short of a tape-stry
A / B / E / / / (Repeat and fade, ad lib)
*Notes: The verse can be played staccato
I'm not sure if 'a stitch short...' are the right chord. Feel free to make corrections
Someone Else's Bell (Difford/Tilbrook)
G G D/F#
We talk about each other
F F D/F#
On our wrap around couch,
Am F F D/F#
And live out all the romance
Em F D/F#
In our little town house.
G G D/F#
I never fit the shower
F F D/F#
And she never sews the threads,
Am F F D/F#
And so we find our feelings
(Single notes starting on D string, fret 2)
Em e d# d c#
In other people's beds.
c b a# b C7 G7
And if the grass seems greener,
C7 G7
But it turns out to be blue
C7 G7 Em
The Garden of Eden isn't quite the place for you.
F7 C7 F7 C7
Don't be surprised if I'm gone under the spell,
F7 C7
Of some other witches' wand
Em F
Ringing someone else's bell… someone else's bell.
Meeting on the motorway
Your lover boy blue,
Steaming up the windows
With your last breath of youth.
Don't you think I see it
Your handbag's full of notes,
I'm feeling like the punch line
In someone's private joke.
Our eyes don't seem to contact
Never much to say,
Except perhaps excuse me
Or pass me the ashtray.
I see him waiting for you
As you go off to work,
I'm left to draw conclusions
While I button up my shirt.
(Fade on verse chords)
Vicky Verky (Difford/Tilbrook)
Intro
A F#m E A F#m E
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Verse 1
A D A
With her hair up in his fingers
A D A
the fish and chips smell lingers
E A E
under amber streetlamps
E A E
she holds the law in her hands
D G D
the moistness of the damp night
Bm E A
fall silent through the lamp light
F#m E D
although she's only fourteen
Bm E A
she really knows her courting
(Intro Again)
Verse 2
And up the railway sidings
There's him and her they're lying
hand in hand they whisper
"Your my misses I'm your mister"
the moon was white and virgin
and she was on the turning
remember your first nibble
when best friends were so little
Verse 3
They really trooped the colours
when walking with each other
and all her mates would giggle
as ladylike she'd wiggle
all along the high street
they'd splash out on an ice cream
he'd sometimes really treat her
when he done his mother's meter
Verse 4
Well he went off to Borstal
He said that he was forced to
Rob the flats of hi-fi's
cause she was ill and she would cry
each morning she got sicker
her mother sometimes hit her
if she'd have known the story
she would have been so sorry
Bridge
Bm
He received a letter and admitted it
there was nothing else to do but get rid of it
G(bar)
lonely in his dormitory
he'd sit and stare
G#
is this for real?
G(bar) D A E (tacet on & off w/pinky on G String)
and is it really fair?
(Keyboard bit, key change for guitar during it)
Verse 5
Summer came so they went
down to the coast in his tent
she cooked upon his primus
and sampled local cider
she told him at his rucksack
"I think I want that chance back
to be perhaps the one who
will forever love you,
will forever love you." E (tacet on & off w/ pinky on G string)
My friend Joe figured this out in about 10 minutes.
Don't you hate people like that?
Happy Strumming!
Walk a Straight Line (Difford/Tilbrook)
Intro -- "Walkdown" to Am, see notes at end
G C G C
I need some help. Help to decide.
G D (Walkdown to Em)
Whether its our love, steps out of time.
G C G C
You say you need, time on your own
G D G
time to accept how our love has grown.
C
And when you think about
G
all the bad in me
A7
think about this too
D C (Walkdown to Am)
how me and you could forever be.
G C G C
In need of help, help to expand
G D (Walkdown to Em)
with each other's minds, together to plan.
G C G C
Time in our lives, time on our own
G D G
so one day we'll see our love has grown.
C
And when that day arrives
G
don't know where we'll be.
A7
but I hope that trust
D C
can be for us and
(Walkdown to Am)
you'll still love me.
Solo
Am C G Em Am C G Em C
Verse 3
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G C G C
I need some help, help to be found
G D (Walkdown to Em)
when you are alone I won't let you down.
G C G C
We all need time, time on our own
G D G
so we can step back, see how love's grown.
C
And when I'm stepping back
G
hope that I will see
A7
that faith can play
D C (Walkdown to C)
a part today for both you and me.
C
And if love needs help
G
and if love needs time
A7
give love the strength
D C
to walk a straight line.
G C
Walk a straight line.
G C
Walk a straight line.
G C
Walk a straight line.
G C
I need some help.
G C G
I need some help.
Notes:
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"Walkdown" to Am
1. G (Play mostly low E and A strings)
2. Move pointer finger to low E string 2nd fret, and play A string open
3. Em
4. Like a C, only up to frets
5. C
6. Em
7. Am
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"Walkdown" to Em
just like above, only stop at number 3.
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"Walkdown" to C
just like above, only stop at number 5.
Woman's World (Difford/Tilbrook)
INTRO: E A E A B (2x)
E A C#m F#
E Asus2 E Asus2 Asus2/B
The crown of the kingdom is given to the woman
E Asus2 E Asus2 Asus2/B
The kingdom of the kitchen where she says she shouldn't
D Bm A A/B
There on the stainless steel her cigarettes and matches
C#m F#m E
Whistles to the radio to every hook she catches
F#m
But the frowns
C#7
Eider downs
Am
Tie her down
A E A C#m F#
But she likes to wear the crown of the kingdom
E Asus2 E Asus2 Asus2/B
She likes the recipes a touch of oriental
E Asus2 E Asus2 Asus2/B
Steaming up the windows burning egg on metal
D Bm A A/B
Sees in a catalogue a shiny new appliance
C#m F#m E
Another role swallowed by the wonders of science
F#m
Lobster hands
C#7
Omelette pans
Am
Understand
A E A C#m F#
How the crown can stick like jam in her kingdom
G#7 C#m
He's been so busy and she's been neglected
G#7 C#m G#
The problem is computed and always it's rejected
A A#dim
Out of her heart I catch a spark
B
And being smart
Cdim C#m F#m B
The crown is left out in the dark now there's no kingdom
F# Bsus2 F# Bsus2 Bsus2/C#
Fed up with the glory she abdicates her title
F# Bsus2 F# Bsus2 Bsus2/C#
Sitting at a bar stool she gives her day's recital
E C#m
The family watch in horror
B C# D#m
As she staggers up the hallway
Makes herself a sandwich
G#m F#
As they're looking through the doorway
G#m
She goes to bed
D#7
Leg by leg
Bm
Nothing's said
B F# B D# G#
There's no crown upon her head there's no kingdom.
F# F#/E F#/D#
Press the button on the toaster
F#/D F#/C#
It's a woman's world
Ab7/C Abm7/B
Tuck the sheets in on the bed
F#/A# F#m/A
It's a woman's world
G#sus4
Take your apron from your holster
Gmaj7
It's a woman's world
F#
Shoot the crown off of your head
It's a woman's world.
F# B/E
It's a woman's world. (3x)
F# B/E hold
It's a woman's world.
F# F#/E F#/D#
Press the button on the toaster
F#/D F#/C#
It's a woman's world
Ab7/C Abm7/B
Tuck the sheets in on the bed
F#/A# F#m/A
It's a woman's world
G#sus4
Take your apron from your holster
Gmaj7
It's a woman's world
F#
Shoot the crown off of your head
It's a woman's world.
(repeat chords of last verse)
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