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--------------------------------Libertines----------------------------------|
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---------------------------------1.Vertigo----------------------------------
BASS/ GUITAR RIFF D----------1-------|
A------1-3---3-1---|
E--1-4-----------5-| (THEN MOVE THIS SHAPE WITHE THE CHORDS)
F G
Koreema know just what it is she does
Bb F REPEAT
It cant be hard for her to get a buzz
Down in the street below
You can hear the drunken prophet sing
"I know whats on your mind my boy
I can see oh everything
Lead pipes are fortune made well
Take a tip from me
Eb Ebm
Climb up to her window ledge or you'll forever be
Bb
Just walking under ladders as the people round you hear you crying please"
Eb Bb A, Ab, G
as the people round you hear you crying please"
Who really knows just what it is she does
It cant be hard for her
To get a buzz
The rapture of vertigo
And letting go
Me myself i was never sure
Was it the liquor
Or was it my soul?
---------------------------2.Death On The Stairs----------------------------
Bb
From way far across the sea
F
Came an eritsean maiden she
Gm
Had a one track mind and eyes for me
Gm
Half blinded in the war
Cm
With a pale young anglican
F
Who said he'd help her all he can
Bb Eb
Showed her Jesus and his little un-holy friend
Cm
She had no mind to please him
F Bb
Just say 'ta-ra' and leave him behind
There's a little boy in a stairwell who say
"I hate people like you"
Got matches & cable TV half of less than 50p
We all clambered over the balcony
Banging on the window waking steve
Bringing with a new love his un-holy friend
If you really need it you mustn't leave it behind
Bb Eb
Please kill me no don't kill me
F
But don't bring that ghost round to my door
I don't wanna see them anymore
Bb Eb
Please kill me no don't kill me
F
But don't bang on about yesterday
I wouldn't know about that anyway
Monkey asked the mouse before
If she loved anybody more than he
It turns you into stone
Now i'm reversing down this lonely street
To a cheap hotel when i can meet the past
And pay it off and keep it sweet
It's sweet like nothing at all
Yes i've seen you there how could i help but stare
It rips the heart out off your body
Now i've taken far too much to think
Or see or touch what's real i'm stranded on this street that
Paved my only way home
You really need it you just won't leave it behind
He got nothing he got nothing at all
----------------------------------3.Horror Show-----------------------------
Intro:
C,C,C (pause) (x4)
C,G,Bb, (x3)[incredibly fast playing here]
C,G
verses
C G Bb
I've been following,
C G Bb
Your minds instructions
F C G Bb (x2)
Oh how just to slowly, sharply screw myself to death
F
Ah yes, there is a screw
C G Bb (x2)
It's pointed at my head
C G Bb
Then look a dream peddlar
C G Bb C G Bb
And a stick of light through my bones
F
"Don't get on the wrong one"
C G Bb (x2)
"Oh you and you what's your game"
Chorus
C E
Laying me down to waste laying me down
Am A
Pin me up or put me down
F
Uh uh uh uh oh
G C G
Now let it all go
C E
It's a horror show, you should come on round
Am A
Horror show, the horse is brown
F G C G
Uh uh oh left something in Moscow
(Pause all other intsruments except guitar)
Bb/C,C (x4)
(only the drums play for this next 4 lines)
She said "I'll show you a picture
A picture of tomorrow
There's nothing changing
It's all sorrow
(back into the verse)
F
Oh no please dont show me
C G Bb (x2)
I'm a swine, you don't wanna know me"
C C G Bb (x2)
I've been following,
C C G Bb
Your minds instructions
F C G Bb (x2)
Oh how just to slowly, sharply screw myself to death
F
Ah yes, there is a screw, screw
C G Bb (x2)
It's pointed at my head
Chorus
C E
Laying me down to waste laying me down
Am A
Pin me up or put me down
F
Uh uh uh uh oh
G C G
Now let it all go
C E
It's a horror show, you should come on round
Am A
Horror show, the horse is brown
F G C G
Uh uh oh left something in Moscow
(then these lines from the verse again)
C G Bb
I've been following,
C G Bb
Your minds instructions
F C G Bb (x2)
Oh how just to slowly, sharply screw myself to death
F
Ah yes, there is a screw
C G Bb (x2)
It's pointed at my head
Chorus
C E
Laying me down to waste laying me down
Am A
Pin me up or put me down
F
Uh uh uh uh oh
G C G
Now let it all go
C E
It's a horror show, you should come on round
Am A
Horror show, the horse is brown
F G C G
Uh uh oh left something in Moscow
---------------------------4.Time For Heroes--------------------------------
D F#m
Did you see the stylish kids in the riot
Bm G (5 fast hits)
We were shovelled up like muck Set the night on fire
D F#m
Wombles bleed truncheons and shields
G A (repeat this sequence unless stated)
You know I cherish you my love
But there's a rumour spread nasty disease around town
Caught round the houses with your trousers down
A headrush in the bush
You know I cherish you my love
G A
How i cherish you my love
G Gm
What can you want now you've got it all
D
She says it's obscene
F#m
Time will strip it away
G
A year and a day
A (HOLD)
And Bill Bones
Bill Bones he knows what I mean
Yes it's eating no it's chewing me up
It's not right for young lungs to be coughing up blood
Oh it's all
It's all in my hands And its all up the walls
The stale chips are up and the hopes stakes are down
Its these ignorant faces that bring this town down
Yeah I sighed and sunken with pride
You know passed myself down on my knees
Yes I passed myself down on my knees
What can you want now you've got it all
She says it's obscene
Time will strip it away
A year and a day
And Bill Bones
Bill Bones he knows what I mean
There are fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Yeah we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own my love
Were in a class of our own my love
Did you see the stylish kids in the riot
We were shovelled up like muck Then set the night on fire
Wombles bleed truncheons and shields
You know I cherish you my love
Oh how I cherish you my love. D
-------------------------5.The Boys In The Band-----------------------------
intro D# F D---------8-10-8----------------|
RIFF (BASS) A--8-8-11--------11--8-8--------|
E-------------------------1-1---|
F
You walking like you never seen the light
you walking like it every night
Bbm C
but I never seen you dance and I never heard you sing
Am Dm*
so how can it mean a single thing? DM*-- PLAY WITH DECENDING BASS
Bb C (STOP)
(D,C#,C
(it's all so rudimentary)
You talking like you handy in a fight
you talk about it every night
but I never seen your flowers in the barrel of a gun
all I ever seen you do is run...not a rude boy you're the gentry
F Am
so tell me baby, how does it feel?
Dm F
I know you like the roll of the limousine wheel...
F Am Bb C
and they all get them out for the boys in the band (only for the boys in the band)
F Am
they scream and they shout for (twist and scream and shout)
Bb C
for the boys in the band, the boys in the band...
you walking like you never seen the light
walking like it every night
but i never seen you laugh and I never heard you cry,
one of those things that darling you might try
(all so rudimentary)
now I'm jealous I'm jealous of my own
I've no homestead but through these hearts I will roam...
and they all get them out etc...
----------------------------6.Radio America---------------------------------
(repeat D and Ddim)
If i get the call i will call across Radio America
Right across america i will call
Yes i will call all across Radio America
Right across america i will call
D Em F#M G F#M G F#M EM D---BACK TO VERSE
If call i must do to take my love my love to you
There a lovely young girl on?
And all across Africa, China and Australia
Call you down in New Mexico, New Brighton and Tokyo i will call
If call i must do to take my love my love to you
G A D
For well it may hap that these are they
D, C#, C B
Your happiest days
G d D--(VERSE)
Oh my good old friend i see you chanced your arm again
the red faced president
Took afternoon tea with her mejesty the queen
And they watched old films flicker across the old palace movie screen
Crying what a shame as Julie slipped in the rain
The poor dancing girl she wont dance again
And they said it was a transmission to take my love my love to you
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----------------------------7.Up The Bracket--|
intro F#m, Fm X 3 F#m
v1
A E A
saw 2 shadow men on the Vallance Road
A E A
said they'd pay me for your address, I was so bold...
F#m E
to say 'you see these 2 cold fingers
F#m E
these crooked fingers I show....
Dmaj7
you a way to mean no'
v2 (as v1)
A...
well they didn't like that much I can tell you
said 'sunshine, I wouldnae wanna be in yur shoes'
& they chased me up three flights of stairs
caught me in the lift how I sighed & said 'oh - you're impossible'
(chorus)
F#m2 Em Dm
But it's just like he's in another world,
C#m Cm Bm
doesn't see the danger on show
C#7
He'll end up like Joseph bloody in a hole
(same as 1st half of chorus)
& it's just like she's in another world
how they suit each other oh
but you never get close
(impossible)
intro
v3
saw the same 2 men on the Cally Rd
said they'd double their offer I was so bold...etc
Chorus
Intro
SOLO g-----9-11-11-9-6-6 (x2) -6-6-6-6^-6^-6^
Chorus
End (...that's close enough)
F#m2 Em Dm (Just one down strum each)
-----------------------------8.Tell The King--------------------------------
Em x4
Am x4
Em x4
Am
I've got a little secret for ya
G x4
Cmaj7 x4
Am
Am D G G
Even now there's something to be proud about
Am Am
You come up the hard way
Bm Am
And they remind you every day
G G C
You're nothing
C D G G
Oh my words in your mouth are mumbled all about
Am Am
You're like a journalist
Bm Am
You can cut and paste and twist
Em x4 Am x4 Em x4
You're awful
Am Am
Tell it to your king
Bm Am G G
Go and tell him everything you know
G G
Tell him you know how I feel
G
Tell him you know how i feel
D Em
At the palace gates
C C
I'm all levered of my face
D G G
And I just can't work out what it's all about
Am Am
I see snakes in eyes
Bm Am G x4 C
And danger signs
C D G G
If you were late you mustn't dare complain
Am Am
And you wont like this at all
Bm Am Em x4 Am x4 Em x4
There's nothing to break your fall
Am Am
Oh tell it to your king
Bm Am G x4
Tell him everything you know
G D Em
And you know how I feel out of place
C C
Until I've levered of my face
D G G
And I can work out what you're on about
Am Am
Didn't they explain
Bm Am G x4
you have to play the game
G x4 Cmaj7 x4 D D/C G/B Am G x4
G D/F#
Johnny drinks and smokes his cares away,
C G
his heart is in the lonely way,
C G
living in the ruins
A7 D7 G
of a castle built on sand
D/F# C G C G A7 D7 G
---------------------------9.Boy Looked At Johnny---------------------------
VERSE E, A, B
The boy looked at Johnny and said
My word that was fun
When he did it with his hat on
In a saddle with his gun
We're in slow motion eating breakfast
At the side view hotel
Oh sipping down (a treat?)
Everything's going so well E (HOLD)
E F#m
New York city's very pretty in the night time
B E
Oh oh don't you miss Soho
Where everybody goes
B C C#
Li di di
B C C# D#C# B
Li di di D D D
B C C#
Li di di
B C C# D#C# B
Li di di D D D
B C C#
Li di di
B C C# D#C# E
Li di di D D D
E
La l la la la la
The boy looked at Johnny
He said Don't you know who I think I am
Well I knew you once before
Now Im trying all I can
No no no no no
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
No no no no no
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
New York city's very pretty in the night time
Oh oh don't you miss Soho
Where everybody goes
Li di di
Li di di D D D
Li di di
Li di di D D D
Li di di
Li di di D D D
La l la la la la
BREAKDOWN IS JUST E AND A
---------------------------------10.Begging--------------------------------
Intro B (HOLD FOR AGES PLAY Bsus4) G
v1
B A B A
All out folks we are, round the bench in the park
B A G
are sisters in the dark today
B
what a leap in mind, my soul has gone a little cold
V2
B A B A
Maybe, maybe next year if it isn't to fear
B A G
we'll get ourslelves some good time girls
B
remember when you tried, you cried in many many ways
Em F#
and he's crossing the road picking up his daily sport
CHORUS
B F# Abm A F#
oh no they're begging you, they're begging you
B
what will they do?
B A Abm A F#
oh no they're begging you, they're begging you
B
what will they do?
V3 AS V2
and have you heard the singer said
he's dead ringer for a fella i used to know
oh love she cried, well no, oh no its a funny way to go
and he's crossing the road picking up his daily sport
chorus
BREAKDOWN---Em
---------------------------11.The Good Old Days-----------------------------
Intro Dm and G7
Queen Bodecia is long dead and gone
Still then the spirit in her childrens childrens children it lives on
Dm Bb F A
But if you've lost your faith in love and music the end wont be long
Dm Bb F A
Dm Bb F A
Because if its gone for you then i too may lose it and that would be wrong
Dm Bb F A
Dm Bb F
Tried so hard to keep myself from falling
A Dm Bb F A
Back into my bad old ways
Dm Bb F
And it chars my heart to always hear you calling
A Dm Bb F
Calling for the good old days
A Dm Bb F
Cos there were no good old days
A Dm Bb F A
These are the good old days
Dm Bb F A
Bm
And its not about, tenements and needles
G A
And all the evils in their eyes and the backs of their minds
Bm G
Daisy chains and school yard games
A
A list of things we said we'd do tomorrow
A
List of things we said we'd do tomorrow
Dm Bb F
The arcadian dream so fallen through
A Dm Bb F A
But the Albion sails on course
Dm Bb F
Let's man the decks and hoist the rigging
A Dm Bb F A
Because the pig mans found the source
Dm Bb F A
And theres twelve rude boys on the oars
Dm Bb F A to end
-----------------------------12.I Get Along---------------------------------
intro D C
D C
You caught me in the middle dazed on the carpet
D C
I was following the lines that move like more snakes
A
thinking Something aint quite right
G A D
You got the devil on your side standing to your right come on
You caught me in the middle dazed and confused
I was following the good steps fancy free and footlose
And 'something aint quite right'
But if you get them on your side then we'll have a good time come on
CHORUS
D C# C C# D C# C C# D
i get along, i get along, i get along, i get along,....
It's coming out my ears so baby here's what we'll do
Theres 10 for you and 6 for him and 4 for them and let me see
Now something aint quite right
You can get them on your side then we'll have a good time come on
MID 8
G A D C# C B G
i getalong singing my song, people tell me i'm wrong
A (STOP)
Fuck 'Em
It's coming out my ears so baby here's what we'll do
Theres 10 for you and 6 for him and 4 for them
Now something aint quite right
You got the devil on your side standing to your right come on
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The End (thanks to Pete Doherty & Carl Barat and the fans who wrote the chords cheers very much)
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