• Song:

    Long Live The Queen

  • Artist:

    Frank Turner

  • Album:

    Love Ire & Song

Hey, I wasnt really happy with the other version, Please rate, this is my first tab.



Verse: Listen to a youtube video to learn the pattern. 

Also, try to keep the top B and E string open when strumming, 

sounds better :)



For the Chorus:     

Aadd9  - 077600

F#m   x44200

Bmadd11   099700

E7   020100 or 076700

D  xx0230

E  022100





     A (x02220@1)I was sipping on a Whiskey when I got the call

    F#m (244222@1)Yeah my friend Lex was lying in the hospital

       Bm (x24432@1)She'd been pretty sick for about half a year

         E (022100@1)But it seems liked this time the end was drawing near



      A (x02220@1)So dropped my plans and jumped the next London train

   F#m (244222@1)I found her laid up and in a lot of pain

     Bm (x24432@1)Her eyes met mine and then I understood

            E (022100@1)                     E7 (020130@1)That the weather forecast wasn't looking too good

      A (x02220@1)So I sat and spun her stories for a little while

  F#m

Tried to raise her mood and tried to raise a smile

           Bm (x24432@1)                          Bm (x24432@1)But she silenced all my rambling with a shake of her head

          E (022100@1)                     E7 (020130@1)Drew me close and listen this is what she said now



Aadd9 (x02420@1)          F#m (244222@1)            Bmadd11

"You'll live to dance another day,                   

                             E7 (020130@1)          

it's just now you'll have to dance, for the two of us,

Aadd9 (x02420@1)          F#m (244222@1)            Bmadd11

so stop looking so damn depressed 

                       D (xx0232@1)and sing with all your heart 

           E (022100@1)that the Queen is dead"



          A (x02220@1)Yeah she told me she was sick of all the hospital food

        F#m (244222@1)And of doctors, distant relatives, draining her blood

     Bm (x24432@1)She said "I know I'm dying, but I'm not finished just yet, 

       E (022100@1)                        E7 (020130@1)I am dying for a drink and for a cigarette"

        A (x02220@1)So we hatched a plan to book ourselves a cheap hotel

        F#m (244222@1)In the centre of the City and to raise some Hell

       Bm (x24432@1)                      Bm (x24432@1)               E (022100@1)
Lay waste to all the clubs and then when everyone else is long asleep

    E7 (020130@1)We know we're good and done



Aadd9 (x02420@1)          F#m (244222@1)            Bmadd11

"You'll live to dance another day,                   

                             E7 (020130@1)          

it's just now you'll have to dance, for the two of us,

Aadd9 (x02420@1)          F#m (244222@1)            Bmadd11

so stop looking so damn depressed 

                       D (xx0232@1)and sing with all your heart 

           E (022100@1)         D (xx0232@1)      F#m (244222@1)    E (022100@1)  

that the Queen is dead__________



                  D (xx0232@1)          F#m (244222@1)       E (022100@1)   And South London's not the same anymore

                   D (xx0232@1)      F#m (244222@1)   E (022100@1)   The Queen is dead,    

            D (xx0232@1)      F#m (244222@1)                       E (022100@1) 

and the last of the great has finally gone to bed



             A (x02220@1)Well I was working on some words when Sarah called me up

              F#m (244222@1)She said that Lex had gone asleep and wasn't waking up

    Bm (x24432@1)And even though I knew that there was nothing to be done

        E (022100@1)                                   E7 (020130@1)I felt bad for not being there and now, well, she was gone

      A (x02220@1)So I tried to think what Lex would want me to do

    F#m (244222@1)At times like this when I was feeling blue

       Bm (x24432@1)So I gathered up some friends to spread the sad sad news

                      E (022100@1)         E7 (020130@1)And we headed to the City for a drink or two



And we sang



Aadd9 (x02420@1)          F#m (244222@1)            Bmadd11

"You'll live to dance another day,                   

                             E7 (020130@1)          

it's just now you'll have to dance, for the two of us,

Aadd9 (x02420@1)          F#m (244222@1)            Bmadd11

so stop looking so damn depressed 

                       D (xx0232@1)and sing with all your heart 

 E (022100@1)            D (xx0232@1)long live the Queen"





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