TITLE: "Queen UK"
ARTIST: Bob Schneider
ALBUM: (Unreleased, Live only!)
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Transcribed by Connor Roberts
Email: corusa@corusa.com
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If you have never heard this song, it is arguably the best acoustic song ever
played live. You can hear it recorded live here so you know how it goes:
http://www.bobschneiderlive.com/queenuk.mp3
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NOTE: All chords are placed pretty much right above the word they begin on.
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Standard Tuning
<> (chords are relative to capo)
CHORDS USED (All fingerstlye, no strumming):
C Em Am F
e--0-- --0-- --0-- --1--
B--1-- --0-- --1-- --1--
G--0-- --0-- --2-- --2--
D--2-- --2-- --2-- --3--
A--3-- --2-- --0-- --0--
E--0-- --0-- --0-- --0--
INTRO:
C, Em, Am, F (x2)
VERSE 1:
C Em
Me and My best friend Jim started our own band
Am F
When I was fifteen living in Deutschland.
C Em
Didn't matter that we could hardly play
Am F
Came up with a crazy name, called the band "Queen UK"
C Em
I played the guitar, he played drums
Am F
Our parents told us one day we'd be bums
C Em
And everyday we'd go over to his parents house
Am F
And in the basement we'd play as hard and loud
C Em
As we could get it. It drove his mom mad
Am F
But it never seemed to bother his drunk dad.
C Em
We wrote five or six, songs or so
Am F
We played them at the high school talent show
C Em
We blew the shit up. The girls went crazy.
Am F
We looked so cool. They called us 'baby.'
C Em
And after that man, we had it made.
Am F
The normal life was later-ade.
INTERLUDE:
C, Em, Am, F...
VERSE 2:
C Em
Well I moved to Austin, he moved to LA after living in Seattle.
Am F
I joined a funk band, he got all into heavy metal.
C Em
It was a wild time. I did a lot of blotter.
Am F
It was like some bad episode of "Welcome Back Kotter".
C Em
I went out to LA to visit him.
Am F
But he was all messed up playing in some shitty band.
C Em
Snorting heroin. He had like ten tatoos.
Am F
We smoked some serious kind, drank a ton of booze.
C Em
We joked around alot. We'd always say
Am F
We've come so far since the good ol' days.
INTERLUDE:
C, Em, Am, F...
VERSE 3:
C Em
It was a blur but, I don't really remember much.
Am F
Just glad to get the hell out, I never liked LA too much.
C Em
Austin was more laid back, more like my kind of town.
Am F
People kickin it, not so tightly wound.
C Em
My bands kept breaking up, like they always do.
Am F
I kept getting by, and pulling through.
C Em
I got a phone call from Jim one night in ninety-eight
Am F
He didn't sound so good he said 'I need a break'.
C Em
He said can I come to stay for a week or so.
Am F
I said 'That'd be cool. No problem bro.'
C Em
But I never spoke to him again after that.
Am F
I got a call from this guy in Jim's band Aftermath.
C Em
He said that Jim had died sometime last week or so.
Am F
In his apartment, some kind of overdose.
C Em
The police couldn't find his folks, and maybe did I know
Am F
How to get a hold of them and I said I did and so
C Em
They called his parents up and it was shitty but,
Am F
I went to the funeral and I was all fucked up.
C Em
And I felt responsible in some weird ol' way.
Am F
But there was nothing I could do, there was nothing I could say.
INTERLUDE:
C, Em, Am, F (x2)...
VERSE 4:
C Em
That's the way it goes when fate is king.
Am F
You can't tell the world how to do its thing.
C Em
You can just hold on tight, let it take you for a ride.
Am F
And maybe you might make it to the other side.
C Em
Well in the end I guess, it doesn't matter so.
Am F
I guess I'll tell you everything I know now.
