Artist: David Sylvian
Song: The boy with the gun
Tabbed by: DJ
4th Nov 2012

Tuning: Standard

A beautiful song, in contrast to it's subject
about a crazy lone gunman

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  Em             D             Cmaj7           Bm7     B7
| /_/_/  /_/_/ | /_/_/  /_/_/ | /_/_/  /_/_/ | /_/_/  /_/_/ | (Twice)
  

Em          Em7      Dsus2                Cmaj7                   Cadd9
   He knows well his...    wicked ways, a...   course of bitter - ness,
Em                Em7    Dsus2                    Cmaj7                Cadd9
   A grudge held from his... childhood days, as if...life had loved him less,
Am                  Am6                   Am7                     D
   Reading down his... list of names, he...   ticks them, one by one,
Fm                      Gm         Ab                  Bb
   He points the barrel at the sky,   firing shots off... at the sun,
 Esus4   Em      D             Cmaj7              Bm7       B7  Emsus2  Em  D
| /_/_/  /_/_/ | /_/_/  /_/_/ |  I am the law, and I am the king-------------,
Cmaj7                B7          Em
  I am the wisdom, listen to me sing!


Em           Em7     Dus2                      Cmaj7             Cadd9
   He carves out the...  victims names, in the wooden butt of the... gun,
Em               Em7   Dsus2                   Cmaj7              Cadd9
   He leans well back a -  gainst the tree, he knows his kingdoms come,
      Am                      Am6               Am7                  D
He'll... breath a sigh, self -   satisfied, the... work is in good hands,
Fm                          Gm             Ab                  Bb
   He shoots the coins in - to the air, and...follows where the...money lands,
 Esus4   Em      D             Cmaj7              Bm7       B7  Emsus2  Em  D
| /_/_/  /_/_/ | /_/_/  /_/_/ |  I am the law, and I am the king-------------,
Cmaj7                B7          Em
  I am the wisdom, listen to me sing!


Em            Em7    Dsus2                    Cmaj7         Cadd9
    He pauses at the...     city's edge, of hellfire and of stone,
Em             Em7    Dsus2                         Cmaj7              Cadd9
    He summons up the...   devil there, to give him...   courage of his own,
      Am                  Am6                    Am7                    D
He'll... free the sinners...  of deceit, they'll...  hear his name and run,
Fm                     Gm          Ab                     Bb
    His justice is his own reward,     measured out be - neath the sun!

 Esus4   Em      Dsus2             
| /_/_/  /_/_/ | /_/_/  /_/_/ |

  
Cmaj7              Bm7        B7         Em         Dsus2
  I am the law, and I am the king--------------,
                   (My name,  my name's------ on the gun----!)

Cmaj7               Bm7       B7        Em          Dsus2
  I am the wisdom, listen---  to me--  sing!
                   (My name,  my name's------ on the gun----!)

Cmaj7              Bm7        B7      Em   Dsus2    
  I am the law, and I am the king-----------------,

Cmaj7               Bm7   B7     Em   Dsus2         Cmaj7          Bm7   B7
  I am the wisdom, listen to me sing!| /_/_/ /_/_/ | /_/_/ /_/_/ | /_/_/ /_/_/ |


    Em            Dsus2          Cmaj7           Bm7     B7
||: /_/_/  /_/_/ | /_/_/  /_/_/ | /_/_/  /_/_/ | /_/_/  /_/_/ :||(Three times)


   Em           Dsus2           Cmaj7  Bm7      B7       Em
| /_/_/  /_/_/ | /_/_/  /_/_/ |            The work has just--- begun,

Dsus2                   Cmaj7   Bm7    B7      
       The boy with the gun!  | /_/_/  /_/_/ | 

   Em            D             Cmaj7           Bm7     B7
| /_/_/  /_/_/ | /_/_/  /_/_/ | /_/_/  /_/_/ | /_/_/  /_/_/ |


    Em                   D Dsus2  Am            Em
||: /__/__/  /__/__/ |   /__/__/  /__/__/ :||   /  ||




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Em     =  022000      Fm      =  133111
D      =  xx0232      Gm      =  355333
Cmaj7  =  x35500      Ab      =  466544
Bm7    =  x20202      Bb      =  688766
B7     =  x21202      Esus4   =  022200
Em7    =  022030      Emsus2  =  022002
Dsus2  =  xx0230            
Cadd9  =  x32020            
Am     =  x02210
Am6    =  x02212
Am7    =  x02213
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