----------------------------------------------------------------------------| --------------------------------Libertines----------------------------------| ------------------------------Up The Bracket--------------------------------| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------| ---------------------------------1.Vertigo---------------------------------- BASS/ GUITAR RIFF D----------1-------| A------1-3---3-1---| E--1-4-----------5-| (THEN MOVE THIS SHAPE WITHE THE CHORDS) F G Koreema know just what it is she does Bb F REPEAT It cant be hard for her to get a buzz Down in the street below You can hear the drunken prophet sing "I know whats on your mind my boy I can see oh everything Lead pipes are fortune made well Take a tip from me Eb Ebm Climb up to her window ledge or you'll forever be Bb Just walking under ladders as the people round you hear you crying please" Eb Bb A, Ab, G as the people round you hear you crying please" Who really knows just what it is she does It cant be hard for her To get a buzz The rapture of vertigo And letting go Me myself i was never sure Was it the liquor Or was it my soul? ---------------------------2.Death On The Stairs---------------------------- Bb From way far across the sea F Came an eritsean maiden she Gm Had a one track mind and eyes for me Gm Half blinded in the war Cm With a pale young anglican F Who said he'd help her all he can Bb Eb Showed her Jesus and his little un-holy friend Cm She had no mind to please him F Bb Just say 'ta-ra' and leave him behind There's a little boy in a stairwell who say "I hate people like you" Got matches & cable TV half of less than 50p We all clambered over the balcony Banging on the window waking steve Bringing with a new love his un-holy friend If you really need it you mustn't leave it behind Bb Eb Please kill me no don't kill me F But don't bring that ghost round to my door I don't wanna see them anymore Bb Eb Please kill me no don't kill me F But don't bang on about yesterday I wouldn't know about that anyway Monkey asked the mouse before If she loved anybody more than he It turns you into stone Now i'm reversing down this lonely street To a cheap hotel when i can meet the past And pay it off and keep it sweet It's sweet like nothing at all Yes i've seen you there how could i help but stare It rips the heart out off your body Now i've taken far too much to think Or see or touch what's real i'm stranded on this street that Paved my only way home You really need it you just won't leave it behind He got nothing he got nothing at all ----------------------------------3.Horror Show----------------------------- Intro: C,C,C (pause) (x4) C,G,Bb, (x3)[incredibly fast playing here] C,G verses C G Bb I've been following, C G Bb Your minds instructions F C G Bb (x2) Oh how just to slowly, sharply screw myself to death F Ah yes, there is a screw C G Bb (x2) It's pointed at my head C G Bb Then look a dream peddlar C G Bb C G Bb And a stick of light through my bones F "Don't get on the wrong one" C G Bb (x2) "Oh you and you what's your game" Chorus C E Laying me down to waste laying me down Am A Pin me up or put me down F Uh uh uh uh oh G C G Now let it all go C E It's a horror show, you should come on round Am A Horror show, the horse is brown F G C G Uh uh oh left something in Moscow (Pause all other intsruments except guitar) Bb/C,C (x4) (only the drums play for this next 4 lines) She said "I'll show you a picture A picture of tomorrow There's nothing changing It's all sorrow (back into the verse) F Oh no please dont show me C G Bb (x2) I'm a swine, you don't wanna know me" C C G Bb (x2) I've been following, C C G Bb Your minds instructions F C G Bb (x2) Oh how just to slowly, sharply screw myself to death F Ah yes, there is a screw, screw C G Bb (x2) It's pointed at my head Chorus C E Laying me down to waste laying me down Am A Pin me up or put me down F Uh uh uh uh oh G C G Now let it all go C E It's a horror show, you should come on round Am A Horror show, the horse is brown F G C G Uh uh oh left something in Moscow (then these lines from the verse again) C G Bb I've been following, C G Bb Your minds instructions F C G Bb (x2) Oh how just to slowly, sharply screw myself to death F Ah yes, there is a screw C G Bb (x2) It's pointed at my head Chorus C E Laying me down to waste laying me down Am A Pin me up or put me down F Uh uh uh uh oh G C G Now let it all go C E It's a horror show, you should come on round Am A Horror show, the horse is brown F G C G Uh uh oh left something in Moscow ---------------------------4.Time For Heroes-------------------------------- D F#m Did you see the stylish kids in the riot Bm G (5 fast hits) We were shovelled up like muck Set the night on fire D F#m Wombles bleed truncheons and shields G A (repeat this sequence unless stated) You know I cherish you my love But there's a rumour spread nasty disease around town Caught round the houses with your trousers down A headrush in the bush You know I cherish you my love G A How i cherish you my love G Gm What can you want now you've got it all D She says it's obscene F#m Time will strip it away G A year and a day A (HOLD) And Bill Bones Bill Bones he knows what I mean Yes it's eating no it's chewing me up It's not right for young lungs to be coughing up blood Oh it's all It's all in my hands And its all up the walls The stale chips are up and the hopes stakes are down Its these ignorant faces that bring this town down Yeah I sighed and sunken with pride You know passed myself down on my knees Yes I passed myself down on my knees What can you want now you've got it all She says it's obscene Time will strip it away A year and a day And Bill Bones Bill Bones he knows what I mean There are fewer more distressing sights than that Of an Englishman in a baseball cap Yeah we'll die in the class we were born That's a class of our own my love Were in a class of our own my love Did you see the stylish kids in the riot We were shovelled up like muck Then set the night on fire Wombles bleed truncheons and shields You know I cherish you my love Oh how I cherish you my love. D -------------------------5.The Boys In The Band----------------------------- intro D# F D---------8-10-8----------------| RIFF (BASS) A--8-8-11--------11--8-8--------| E-------------------------1-1---| F You walking like you never seen the light you walking like it every night Bbm C but I never seen you dance and I never heard you sing Am Dm* so how can it mean a single thing? DM*-- PLAY WITH DECENDING BASS Bb C (STOP) (D,C#,C (it's all so rudimentary) You talking like you handy in a fight you talk about it every night but I never seen your flowers in the barrel of a gun all I ever seen you do is run...not a rude boy you're the gentry F Am so tell me baby, how does it feel? Dm F I know you like the roll of the limousine wheel... F Am Bb C and they all get them out for the boys in the band (only for the boys in the band) F Am they scream and they shout for (twist and scream and shout) Bb C for the boys in the band, the boys in the band... you walking like you never seen the light walking like it every night but i never seen you laugh and I never heard you cry, one of those things that darling you might try (all so rudimentary) now I'm jealous I'm jealous of my own I've no homestead but through these hearts I will roam... and they all get them out etc... ----------------------------6.Radio America--------------------------------- (repeat D and Ddim) If i get the call i will call across Radio America Right across america i will call Yes i will call all across Radio America Right across america i will call D Em F#M G F#M G F#M EM D---BACK TO VERSE If call i must do to take my love my love to you There a lovely young girl on? And all across Africa, China and Australia Call you down in New Mexico, New Brighton and Tokyo i will call If call i must do to take my love my love to you G A D For well it may hap that these are they D, C#, C B Your happiest days G d D--(VERSE) Oh my good old friend i see you chanced your arm again the red faced president Took afternoon tea with her mejesty the queen And they watched old films flicker across the old palace movie screen Crying what a shame as Julie slipped in the rain The poor dancing girl she wont dance again And they said it was a transmission to take my love my love to you ----------------------------------------------| ----------------------------7.Up The Bracket--| intro F#m, Fm X 3 F#m v1 A E A saw 2 shadow men on the Vallance Road A E A said they'd pay me for your address, I was so bold... F#m E to say 'you see these 2 cold fingers F#m E these crooked fingers I show.... Dmaj7 you a way to mean no' v2 (as v1) A... well they didn't like that much I can tell you said 'sunshine, I wouldnae wanna be in yur shoes' & they chased me up three flights of stairs caught me in the lift how I sighed & said 'oh - you're impossible' (chorus) F#m2 Em Dm But it's just like he's in another world, C#m Cm Bm doesn't see the danger on show C#7 He'll end up like Joseph bloody in a hole (same as 1st half of chorus) & it's just like she's in another world how they suit each other oh but you never get close (impossible) intro v3 saw the same 2 men on the Cally Rd said they'd double their offer I was so bold...etc Chorus Intro SOLO g-----9-11-11-9-6-6 (x2) -6-6-6-6^-6^-6^ Chorus End (...that's close enough) F#m2 Em Dm (Just one down strum each) -----------------------------8.Tell The King-------------------------------- Em x4 Am x4 Em x4 Am I've got a little secret for ya G x4 Cmaj7 x4 Am Am D G G Even now there's something to be proud about Am Am You come up the hard way Bm Am And they remind you every day G G C You're nothing C D G G Oh my words in your mouth are mumbled all about Am Am You're like a journalist Bm Am You can cut and paste and twist Em x4 Am x4 Em x4 You're awful Am Am Tell it to your king Bm Am G G Go and tell him everything you know G G Tell him you know how I feel G Tell him you know how i feel D Em At the palace gates C C I'm all levered of my face D G G And I just can't work out what it's all about Am Am I see snakes in eyes Bm Am G x4 C And danger signs C D G G If you were late you mustn't dare complain Am Am And you wont like this at all Bm Am Em x4 Am x4 Em x4 There's nothing to break your fall Am Am Oh tell it to your king Bm Am G x4 Tell him everything you know G D Em And you know how I feel out of place C C Until I've levered of my face D G G And I can work out what you're on about Am Am Didn't they explain Bm Am G x4 you have to play the game G x4 Cmaj7 x4 D D/C G/B Am G x4 G D/F# Johnny drinks and smokes his cares away, C G his heart is in the lonely way, C G living in the ruins A7 D7 G of a castle built on sand D/F# C G C G A7 D7 G ---------------------------9.Boy Looked At Johnny--------------------------- VERSE E, A, B The boy looked at Johnny and said My word that was fun When he did it with his hat on In a saddle with his gun We're in slow motion eating breakfast At the side view hotel Oh sipping down (a treat?) Everything's going so well E (HOLD) E F#m New York city's very pretty in the night time B E Oh oh don't you miss Soho Where everybody goes B C C# Li di di B C C# D#C# B Li di di D D D B C C# Li di di B C C# D#C# B Li di di D D D B C C# Li di di B C C# D#C# E Li di di D D D E La l la la la la The boy looked at Johnny He said Don't you know who I think I am Well I knew you once before Now Im trying all I can No no no no no Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah No no no no no Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah New York city's very pretty in the night time Oh oh don't you miss Soho Where everybody goes Li di di Li di di D D D Li di di Li di di D D D Li di di Li di di D D D La l la la la la BREAKDOWN IS JUST E AND A ---------------------------------10.Begging-------------------------------- Intro B (HOLD FOR AGES PLAY Bsus4) G v1 B A B A All out folks we are, round the bench in the park B A G are sisters in the dark today B what a leap in mind, my soul has gone a little cold V2 B A B A Maybe, maybe next year if it isn't to fear B A G we'll get ourslelves some good time girls B remember when you tried, you cried in many many ways Em F# and he's crossing the road picking up his daily sport CHORUS B F# Abm A F# oh no they're begging you, they're begging you B what will they do? B A Abm A F# oh no they're begging you, they're begging you B what will they do? V3 AS V2 and have you heard the singer said he's dead ringer for a fella i used to know oh love she cried, well no, oh no its a funny way to go and he's crossing the road picking up his daily sport chorus BREAKDOWN---Em ---------------------------11.The Good Old Days----------------------------- Intro Dm and G7 Queen Bodecia is long dead and gone Still then the spirit in her childrens childrens children it lives on Dm Bb F A But if you've lost your faith in love and music the end wont be long Dm Bb F A Dm Bb F A Because if its gone for you then i too may lose it and that would be wrong Dm Bb F A Dm Bb F Tried so hard to keep myself from falling A Dm Bb F A Back into my bad old ways Dm Bb F And it chars my heart to always hear you calling A Dm Bb F Calling for the good old days A Dm Bb F Cos there were no good old days A Dm Bb F A These are the good old days Dm Bb F A Bm And its not about, tenements and needles G A And all the evils in their eyes and the backs of their minds Bm G Daisy chains and school yard games A A list of things we said we'd do tomorrow A List of things we said we'd do tomorrow Dm Bb F The arcadian dream so fallen through A Dm Bb F A But the Albion sails on course Dm Bb F Let's man the decks and hoist the rigging A Dm Bb F A Because the pig mans found the source Dm Bb F A And theres twelve rude boys on the oars Dm Bb F A to end -----------------------------12.I Get Along--------------------------------- intro D C D C You caught me in the middle dazed on the carpet D C I was following the lines that move like more snakes A thinking Something aint quite right G A D You got the devil on your side standing to your right come on You caught me in the middle dazed and confused I was following the good steps fancy free and footlose And 'something aint quite right' But if you get them on your side then we'll have a good time come on CHORUS D C# C C# D C# C C# D i get along, i get along, i get along, i get along,.... It's coming out my ears so baby here's what we'll do Theres 10 for you and 6 for him and 4 for them and let me see Now something aint quite right You can get them on your side then we'll have a good time come on MID 8 G A D C# C B G i getalong singing my song, people tell me i'm wrong A (STOP) Fuck 'Em It's coming out my ears so baby here's what we'll do Theres 10 for you and 6 for him and 4 for them Now something aint quite right You got the devil on your side standing to your right come on ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End (thanks to Pete Doherty & Carl Barat and the fans who wrote the chords cheers very much) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------