heliocentric@breathe.com
February 4th 2001.  1.36pm

SON OF A GUN by THE LA'S

Written by Lee Mavers

From the album 'The La's' (Go! Discs, 1990)

Chords used:

Standard tuning (EADGBe)

C:  x32010
Bb: x1333x
F:  133211

Or alternatively you could tune your guitar down a tone to

DGCFAd

and use these shapes:

C:  xx0232
Bb  x32033 (Bbadd9)
F:  320033


C Bb (x4)

       C (x32010@1)  Bb (x1333x@1)CIf (x32010@1)you want
     Bb (x1333x@1)       C (x32010@1)  Bb (x1333x@1)   CI'll (x32010@1)sell you a life story
 Bb (x1333x@1)   C (x32010@1)         Bb (x1333x@1)  C (x32010@1)            Bb (x1333x@1)         C (x32010@1)   Bb (x1333x@1)CAbout (x32010@1)a man who's a loggerheads with his past all the time
Bb (x1333x@1)  C (x32010@1)  Bb (x1333x@1)CHe's (x32010@1)alive
    Bb (x1333x@1)      C (x32010@1)  Bb (x1333x@1)   C (x32010@1)Bband (x1333x@1)living in purgatory
         C (x32010@1)      Bb (x1333x@1)       CAll (x32010@1)he's doing is rooming in hotels
    Bb (x1333x@1)        C (x32010@1)     Bb (x1333x@1) CAnd (x32010@1)scooping up lots of wine

          F (133211@1)    Bb (x1333x@1)   C (x32010@1)    BbThere (x1333x@1)was once a boy of life
    F (133211@1)    Bb (x1333x@1)    C (x32010@1)    BbWho (x1333x@1)lived upon the knife
   F (133211@1)      Bb (x1333x@1)     C (x32010@1)  BbHe (x1333x@1)took his share of everywhere
       F (133211@1)   Bb (x1333x@1)   CBut (x32010@1)he never took a wife...

Bb (x1333x@1)   C (x32010@1)  Bb (x1333x@1)CHe (x32010@1)was born
   Bb (x1333x@1)        C (x32010@1)  Bb (x1333x@1)  C (x32010@1)BbTo (x1333x@1)live like a mercenary
     C (x32010@1)  Bb (x1333x@1)    C (x32010@1)          BbWell (x1333x@1)personally I think that's fine
          C (x32010@1)    Bb (x1333x@1)       CIf (x32010@1)you're in the right mind
Bb (x1333x@1)   CBb  C (x32010@1)        Bb (x1333x@1)      C (x32010@1)       Bb (x1333x@1)C (x32010@1)BbHe (x1333x@1)was bur - ned by the twentieth century
    C (x32010@1)        Bb (x1333x@1)        C (x32010@1)         BbNow (x1333x@1)he's doing time in the back of his mind
       C (x32010@1)       BbHe (x1333x@1)can hear them outside

       F (133211@1)  Bb (x1333x@1)   C (x32010@1)   BbBetter (x1333x@1)run, rabbit run
F (133211@1)   Bb (x1333x@1)   C (x32010@1)  BbRun (x1333x@1)into the sun
F (133211@1)       Bb (x1333x@1)         C (x32010@1)     BbKick (x1333x@1)your heels in the killing fields
F (133211@1) Bb (x1333x@1)   CRun (x32010@1)rabbit run
           Bb (x1333x@1)     C (x32010@1) BbYou're (x1333x@1)the son of a gun

C Bb (x8)

He was born to live like a mercenary
Well personally I think that's fine
If you're in the right mind.

F (133211@1)