heliocentric@breathe.com
2nd December 2000, 5.11pm
Shaun Hand, 16, Birmingham

GENO
(Rowland, Archer)

From 'Searching For The Young Soul Rebels' (Parlophone, 1980)

This is one of the best songs ever written,some of the lyrics I don't think are right and some are just 
but please correct me where I've gone wrong.

Chords used:

C#:  9-11-11-10-99
B:   799877
F#m: 244222
A:   577655
F#:  244322
E:   022100

N.C.(crowd chanting and horns)

C# B (x4)

C# (x43121@1)               B (x2444x@1)                      C# (x43121@1)       BBack (x2444x@1)in sixty, the weight of his work at de club (oh Geno)
    C# (x43121@1)                     B (x2444x@1)            C# (x43121@1)   B??? (x2444x@1)Jimmy's my scene and the rocksteady rub    (oh Geno)
     B (x2444x@1)                       F#mOn (244222@1)a night when flowers didn't suit my tune,
        B (x2444x@1)                  F#mAfter (244222@1)a week of longing, I'm back in school,
  B (x2444x@1)               F#mGeno (244222@1)is heading the crowd that night
         B (x2444x@1)                            F#mA-just (244222@1)a-?????? his ??????? and keeping out of the fights.

A (x02220@1)      E (022100@1)          B (x2444x@1)         F#Academic (244322@1)inspiration, you gave me none,
A (x02220@1)        E (022100@1)              B (x2444x@1)              F#You (244322@1)were Michael the lover, the fighter that won,
A (x02220@1)          E (022100@1)                 B (x2444x@1)             F#But (244322@1)now just look at me as I'm a-looking down on you,
A (x02220@1)        E (022100@1)                  B (x2444x@1)           F#No (244322@1)I'm not being flash it's what I'm built to do.

C# (x43121@1)C# B (x2)

C# (x43121@1)              B (x2444x@1)                       C# (x43121@1)       BThat (x2444x@1)man took the stage, his towel swinging high (oh Geno)
C# (x43121@1)            B (x2444x@1)                   C# (x43121@1)           BThis (x2444x@1)man was my bombers, my dexys, my highs      (oh Geno)
        B (x2444x@1)                            F#mOh, (244222@1)the crowd they all hailed you, and chanted your name,
               B (x2444x@1)                        F#mBut (244222@1)they never knew, like we knew, me and you were the same,
    B (x2444x@1)                       F#mAnd (244222@1)now you're all over, your sound is so tame,
       B (x2444x@1)                              F#mBrrrrrri, (244222@1)you fed me and plainly I'll remember your name,

A (x02220@1)      E (022100@1)          B (x2444x@1)         F#Academic (244322@1)inspiration, you gave me none,
A (x02220@1)        E (022100@1)              B (x2444x@1)              F#You (244322@1)were Michael the lover, the fighter that won,
A (x02220@1)          E (022100@1)                 B (x2444x@1)             F#But (244322@1)now just look at me as I'm a-looking down on you,
A (x02220@1)        E (022100@1)              B (x2444x@1)               F#No (244322@1)I'm not being flash it's what I'm built to do.

A B F# E (x2) A B C#
(Instrumental)

C# (x43121@1)     B (x2444x@1)  C#Oh (x43121@1)Geno,
     BWoah (x2444x@1)Geno

(repeat to fade)