A/Ab/A/Ab/A/Ab/A/A x 2 

A                              
Kids are playing gangster wars 

     C#                           
They don't believe in Santa Claus 

    D                                
The baseball bats are soft of course 

    E                          
The blood is just tomato sauce 

   A                             
As icebergs go it's just the tip 

    C#                          
The start of the apprenticeship 

  D                                 
A short sharp Glasgow kiss me quick 

E                            
Karate chop and Kung Fu kick 


    A                              
And in the wings the grannies wait 

C#                              
doing things that grannies hate 

D                     
Queuing to accumulate 

  E                               
A pittance from the welfare state 

     A                         
Then back home on a forty four 

C#                              
Put the chain on, lock the door 

D                           
Cross another five bar gate 

E            
Sit and wait 


       
CHORUS 

A              F#m  
Don't open the door 

              B         
Don't talk to strangers 

               G      
You've not met before 

              A     
Your guardian angel 

                F#m 
Will watch over you 

                 B     
If your guardian angel 

                   G  
Has got nothing to do 


   A                                
In space no one can hear you scream 

        C#                        
Because no one's really listening 

      D                              
Saint Peter's got his gates to clean 

    E              F#     E        
And God's too busy saving queens 

   A                           
To ever get down off the fence 

    C#                              
And give the meek their inheritance 

D                         
So it's only common sense 

   E                      F#E             
To get yourself some self defence 


         
(CHORUS) Same chords as first chorus except last chord is E

B C# Eb   F# F#/Eb/F# x 2

(CHORUS)

B              Abm  
Don't open the door 

              C#         
Don't talk to strangers 

               A      
You've not met before 

              B     
Your guardian angel 

                Abm 
Will watch over you 

                 C#    
If your guardian angel 

                   F#  
Has got nothing to do 


    C#                             
And so we leave this nusery rhyme 

     F                         
This grizzly gruesome pantomime 

         F#                         
From the cradle to a life of crime 

               
And back again 

    Eb  Bb   Eb       
And now it's time 

   C#  Eb  F#     Eb Eb/Bb/Eb 
To say goodbye 

C#/C/ C#/C/C#/C/C# C# x 3