Verse 1:

            B                 F#
When you're all alone in this big wide world,
    Ebm                  C#
You just can't find your place.
        B              F#           Ebm           C#
And you wanna tell the children, of all the human race.

    B                 F#               Ebm             C#
The special ones, the normal ones, the Chinese ones as well.
   B                          F#
It just ain't right to lose a child's life,
             Ebm                C#     E
so lift your nose and smell the smell...

Chorus 1:

             A    Bm7 , D
The smell of life,
    E        A        Bm7 , D
The smell of children.
    E        Bm                E (n.c)      ( A )
The smell of doing it together; the smell of life.

Interlude:

A  Bm7 , D  E (x2)

Break: (Jessica):

D                   A                   D          A
 I'd be alive, if I took the advice, ad-vice of Mr G.
    Bm                     E
You don't need sex and you don't need drugs,
     Bm            E
'Cos life is ecsta-sy...

Chorus 2:

             A    Bm7 , D
The smell of life,
    E        A        Bm7 , D
The smell of children.
    E        Bm                E (n.c)       A    Bm7 , D  E
The smell of doing it together; the smell of life.

(Repeat to Fade)