(One chord sequence throughout= Gm C F Eb F#/F)
Streets like a jungle
So call the police
Following the herd
Down to Greece
on holiday
Love in the 90's
Is paranoid
On sunny beaches
Take your chances, looking for
GIRLS WHO ARE BOYS
WHO LOVE BOYS LIKE THEY'RE GIRLS
WHO DO GIRLS LIKE THEY'RE BOYS
ALWAYS SHOULD BE SOMEONE YOU REALLY LOVE
Avoiding all work
Cos there's none available
Like battery thinkers
Count their thoughts on 1 2 3 4 5 fingers
Nothing is wasted
Only reproduced
You get nasty blisters
Du bist sehr schon
But we haven't been introduced
TRACY JACKS
SOLm7 LA SOLm7 LA
(Tracy Jacks) works in civil service
SOLm7 LA SOLm7 LA
(Tracy Jacks) its steady employment
SI LA SI LA
(Tracy Jacks) is a golfing fanatic
SI LA SI LA
(Tracy Jacks) But his put is erratic
SOLm7 LA SOLm7 LA
(Tracy Jacks) saw a Harley Street Doctor
SOLm7 LA SOLm7 LA
(Tracy Jacks) who prescribed healthy living
SI LA SI LA
(Tracy Jacks) he's getting past forty
SI LA SI
(Tracy Jacks) and all the seams are splitting
SOL SI
Everyday he got closer
SI MI
He knew in his heart he was over
FA#m SI
Saying I'd love to stay here and be normal
SI7
But its just so overrated
SOLm7 LA SOLm7 LA
(Tracy Jacks) left home without warning
SOLm7 LA SOLm7 LA
(Tracy Jacks) at five in the morning
SI LA SI LA
(Tracy Jacks) got on the first train to Walton
SI LA SI LA
(Tracy Jacks) stood on the sea front laughing
SOLm7 LA SOLm7 LA
(Tracy Jacks) ran up and down naked
SOLm7 LA SOLm7 LA
(Tracy Jacks) got stopped by the police
SI LA SI LA
(Tracy Jacks) driven back to London
SOL#m LA SI
And then it happened on a Tuesday morning
SOL#m LA SI
Tracy Jacks bulldozed down the house he lived in
SI7
Saying its just so overrated
END OF THE CENTURY
SOL SOLmaj7
Ants in the carpet
MIm MIm/RE
Dirty little monsters
MIb RE
Eating all the morsels
SIm DO
Picking up the rubbish
SOL SOLmaj7
Give her effervescence
MIm MIm/RE
She needs a little sparkle
MIb RE
Good morning TV
SIm DO
You're looking so healthy
Chorus
MIm
We all say
RE
Don't want to be alone
MIm
We wear the same clothes
RE
'Cos we feel the same
MIm
We kiss with dry lips
RE DO
When we say goodnight
DO
End of the century......its nothing special
SOL SOLmaj7
Sex on the TV
MIm MIm/RE
Everybody's at it
MIb RE
And the mind gets dirty
SIm DO
When you get clo ser to thirty
SOL SOLmaj7
Gives her a cuddle
MIm MIm/RE
They're glowing in a huddle
MIb RE
Good night TV
SIm
You're all made up
And you're looking like me
Chorus
SOL FA SOL FA SOL FA SOL
Can you eat her yes you can
Chorus
PARKLIFE The E etc. in this =12th fret (brush up on those barre chords!!)
MI MIsus4 MI
Confidence is the preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as
MIsus4
(Parklife)
MI MIsus4
And morning setup can be avoided if you take a route straight through
MI MIsus4
what is known as (Parklife)
MI MIsus4
John's got brewer's droop he gets intimidated by the dirty pigeons they
MI MIsus4
love a bit of it (Parklife)
MI MIsus4
Who's that gut lord marching...you should cut down on your porklife
MI MIsus4
mate...get some exercise
Chorus
MI SIb SI
All the people
MI DO SI
So many people
SOL MIm RE
They all go hand in hand
DO LAsus4 LA SIb7 SI7
Hand in hand throught their parklife
(Verse 2: Same chords as verse 1)
I get up when I want, except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awaken by the
dustmen
I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea, and I think about leaving the
house
I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too it gives me a feeling of
enormous well being
And then I'm happy of rht rest of the day safe in the knowledge there will
always be a bit of my heart devoted to it
Chorus
It's got nothing to do with your Vorsprung Durch Technic you know
And it's got nothing to do with you joggers who go round and round and round
Chorus
BADHEAD
SOL DO SOL
So far we've not really stayed in touch
DO SIb9 DO SOL
Well I knew as much, it's no surprise that today
DO SOL DO SIb9
I'll get up round two, with nothing to do
DO LAm
Except get a touch of flu
Chorus
LAm RE
And I might as well just grin and bear it
DO LA
'Cos its not worth the trouble of an argument
LAm RE
And in any case I'd rather wear it
DO LA
Your like a bad head in the morning
And I know......
MId 8
LAm MIm LAm
LAm MIm DO (D)
Chorus
BANK HOLIDAY
LA SOL
Grandma has new dentures
LA SOL
To eat the crust of pizza
LA SOL
Been taken out by her daughter
LA SOL
Because she thought she ought'a
LA SOL
The kids are eating snickers
LA SOL
Because they're so delicious
LA SOL
Then there's sticky fingers
LA SOL SI DO
And mother loses her knickers
Chorus
MIb SIb DO
Bank holiday comes six times a year
MIb SIb DO
Days of enjoyment to which everybody cheers
MIb SIb DO
Bank holiday comes with six pack of beer
DO SIb SOL
......then its back to work A.G.A.I.N.
LA SOL
Bar-b-que is cooking
LA SOL
Sausages and chicken
LA SOL
The patio is buzzing
LA SOL
The neighbours they are looking
LA SOL
John is down the fun pub
LA SOL
Drinking lots of lager
LA SOL
Girls and boys are on the game
LA SOL SI DO
And all the high streets look the same
Chorus
THE DEBT COLLECTOR
(A)A FA#m SI SI RE DO SI MI SI7
(B)E MI7 DO#M/MI DO SOL MIm/SI DO LA
SI MI SI MI SI MI MI7
Repeat most of it again.
FAR OUT
DO MIb
I spy in the night sky don't I
DO MIb DO MIb
Phobe Io Elara Leda Callisto Sinope
DO MIb FA
Janus Dione Portia So many moons
SOL# SIb FA LA SIb FA
Quiet in the sky at night Hot in the milky way
MIb RE
Outside in
DO MIb DO MIb
Vega Capella Hadar Rigel Barnard's star
DO MIb DO
Antares Aldebaran Altair Wolf 359
MIb FA
Betelgeuse sun sun sun
TO THE END
RE
All those dirty words
MIm
They make us look so dumb
RE
Been drinking far too much
MIm
And neither of us mean what we say
FA# SOL#
You and I
FA# SOL#
Collapsed in love
REsus4 RE MI
And it looks like we might have made it,
SOL9 LA
yes it looks like we made it to the end
RE
What happened to us
MIm
Soon it will be gone forever
RE
Infatuated only with ourselves
MIm
And neither of us can think straight anymore
Chorus X2
LONDON LOVES
SOL LA SOL LA
A malady has taken him over
SOL LA SOL LA
Coughing tar in his Japanese motor
SOL LA
The lights are magic
SOL LA
And he's got money
SOL LA
So he'll be lucky
SOL LA
He'll shoot like an arrow
LA SIm FA#m
London loves
LA SIm FA#m
The mystery of a speeding car
LA SIm FA#m
London loves
LA SIm FA#m FA
The misery of a speeding heart
(G and A again)
It's Love-U-Like and everyone's at it
But words are cheap and his mind is elastic
He loves the violence
Keeps ticking over
So sleep together
Before today is sold forever
LA SIm FA#m
London loves
LA SIm FA#m
The way people just fall apart
LA SIm FA#m
London loves
LA SIm FA#m FA
The misery of a speeding heart
(The rest of the song is just improvisation on this theme)
TROUBLE IN THE MESSAGE CENTRE
SOL LA DO# MIb
I am the message centre
SOL LA DO# MIb
Local and direct
SOL LA DO# MIb
Room to room an operator (no calls today dear, they'll just have to wait dear)
SOL LA DO# MIb
I call and I collect (so just strike him softly away from the body)
SIbm DO#m SOL#m SI
You're made up too shiny today (in so much trouble)
SIbm DO#m SOL#m SI
Thoughts are just pissing away "
SIbm DO#m SOL#m SI
A new type face a new day "
SIbm DO#m SOL#m SI
You can't remember ten minutes ago.
MI FA#
It's too much trouble
Middle 8 up half a tone, so that's (Bm D Am C x4) (then E F#)
Chorus
CLOVER OVER DOVER
DO#m SI LA
I'm on the white cliffs of Dover
DO#m MI LA
Thinking it over and over
DO#m SI LA
But if I jump its all over
DO#m MI LA SI
A cautionary tale for you
(Verse 2: Same chords)
I love to roll in the clover
With you over and over
On the white cliffs of Dover
And then I'd let you push me over
DO#m SI LA SOL#m FA#m(sus4) FA# SI DO
And if that is the fact then in actual fact it's not where it's at and it's over
(Repeat)
Verse 3: (Same chords)
And now the bluebirds are over
The white cliffs of Dover
So when you push me over
Don't bury me I'm not worth anything
MAGIC AMERICA
DO# SIb FA#
Bill Barret has a simple dream
DO# SIb MIb
He calls it his plan B
DO# SIb FA#
Where the buildings and the sky and the air is sugar free
SOL# SOL#7
And everyone is very friendly
DO# SIb FA#
Plan B arrived on holiday
DO# SIb MIb
Took a cab to the shopping malls
DO# SIb FA#
Bought and ate until he could do neither anymore
SOL# SOL#7
Then found love on channel forty-four
Chorus
DO# SI LA FA#m SI
La la la la la he wants to go to Magic America
DO# SI LA FA#m SI LA SOL# DO# SIb
La la la la la he'd like to live in Magic America with all the magic people
DO# SIb FA#
Bill Barret sent his postcards home
DO# SIb MIb
To everyone he'd ever known - they read
DO# SIb FA#
Fifty nine cents gets you a good square meal
SOL# SOL#7
From the people who care how you feel
Chorus
MId 8 DO#7 SI7 FA# SOL#m7 x3
Then C#7 B7 A7
LA MI
Jubilee slouches in the settee
RE FA SOL
He's losing all the will to move
LA MI
He's gone divvy, too much telly
RE FA SOL
He's watching twenty four hours of rubbish
LA MI RE
He's got butane, he's got plastic bags
FA SOL
And his eyes are going square (oh yeah)
LA MI
He's no raver just anti social
RE FA SOL
He's not going to cut his hair
Chorus
RE MI
He dresses incorrectly....no one told him how to do it
MI LA
He dresses incorrectly....seventeen he not mean enough
RE MI LA
He dresses incorrectly....talk to the girls but he's just too spotty
RE DO SIb LA
He dresses incorrectly....not keen on being like anyone else
(Verse 2: Same chords as Verse 1)
Jubilee's dad, Billy Banker
Thinks his son is aslob
Should get out more stop scabbing
He should go out and get a job
No, he just plays on his computer games (reprise)
THIS IS A LOW
MI SIm LA DO#m
And into the sea go pretty England and me
DO SIm MI
Around the Bay of Biscay and home for tea
SIm
Hit traffic on the Dogger Bank
LA DO#m
Up the Thames to find a taxi rank
DO SIm MI
Sail on by with the tide and fall asleep
And the radio says
MI RE
This is a low
MI LAm SIm
But it won't hurt you
MI RE MI LAm SIm
When you're alone it will be there with you
DO SIm7 MI
Finding ways to stay solo
MI SIm
On the Tyne, Forth and Cromarty
LA DO#m
There is a low in the high Forties
DO SIm
And Saturdays locked away on the pier
MI
Not fast enough dear
SIm LA
On the Malin Head, Blackpool looks black and red
DO SIm
And the Queen she's gone round the bend
MI
Jumped off Land's End
Chorus X2
Had a bit of trouble with the tab shift on my PC, so if any chords look out of place, that is why.
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