• Song:

    Kid Charlemagne

  • Artist:

    Steely Dan

  • Album:

    The Very Best of Steely...

INTRO: 
 
 C5 
 
 
VERSE 1: 
 
A5                          G5 
 While the music played you worked by candle light 
      F5                                Bb5 
Those San Fransisco nights, they were the best in town 
A5                            G5 
 Just by chance you crossed a diamond with a pearl 
    F5                                    Bb5 
You turned it on the world, that's when you turned the world around 
F5          G5        A5      G5            D5    E5 D5 
  Did you feel like Jesus      Did you realise 
                 E5               F5   E5  D5 
That you were a champion in their eyes ? 
C5 
 
 
VERSE 2: 
On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene 

But yours was kitchen clean 

Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolour motorhome 

Every A-frame had your number on the wall 

You must have had it all 

You'd go to LA on a dare and you'd go it alone 

Could you live forever 

Could you see the day 

Did you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away 
 
CHORUS : 
 
D5      E5       D5      E5 
Get along            Get along Kid Charlemagne 
D5     E5                F5    G5     C5 
 Get along Kid Charlemagne 
 
VERSE 3: 
Now your patrons have all left you in the red 

Your low rent friends are dead 

This life can be very strange 

All those day-glo freaks who used to paint their face 

They've joined the human race, some things will never change 

Son you were mistaken 

You are obsolete, look at all the white men on the street 
 
CHORUS 
INSTRUMENTAL 
 
 E5 A5   D5    F5    B5   E5   A5    G5 
 
F5   E5    D5 B5 E5     D5     C5     E5  D5 
 
A5     G5     F5     Bb5     F5   G5   A5  G5 
 
D5    E5 D5     E5     F5 E5 D5 
 
C5 
 
 
VERSE 4: 
Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail 

Those test tubes and the scales, just get it all out of here 

Is there gas in the car ? 

Yes there's gas in the car 

I think the people down the hall know who you are 

Careful what you carry 

Cause the man is wise 

You are still an outlaw in their eyes 
 
CHORUS 
OUTTRO: 
 
F5     E5     D5     C5    E5 F5    E5    D5 
 
C5     E5 F5    E5     D5     C5    E5 
 
...etc  - keep repeating 
 
 
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