English Boy Pete Townshend
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English Boy | guitar tab
By Pete Townshend
>From Psychoderelict, 1993
Written by Pete Townshend (c)1993 Towser Tunes Inc./Eel Pie Publishing Ltd.
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transcribed by Whotabs
litgo@aol.com 1998-07-22 www.thewho.net/whotabs
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[note: use non-dialogue or 'Best of PT' version]
Capo on 3 [dropped D tuning: FCFBbDG witb capo]
[F]Bb [(3)(3)3565] x53366
C x3555x
C#7sus2 xxx 13 12 10
D7sus2 xxx 14 13 11
E7 xx 12 13 12 x
F7 xx 13 14 13 x
Bb xx3366 (bridge)
Bbmaj7 xx3365
Ebadd9 x63363
[intro]
[F5] [F/Ab] [F5]
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[cborus]
I'm an [F]English boy[Bb] [Bb] [C]
I was brought up right
Hold me down and I will bite
I know no fear, I serve with joy
I'm proud to be here, an English boy
[verse]
I [C#7sus2]feel like a stray dog [D7sus2] [E7]Blurred like a movie[F7]
You say you've [C#7sus2]come to arrest m[D7sus2]e But you're [E7]just trying to test m[F7]e
I'm bored with your prejudice spreading like a fever
Your promises to train me are just attempts to restrain me
[repeat cborus]
I am an English boy, precisely made
You can pin me down, I am not afraid
I show no fear, I will serve with joy
I'm proud to be here, an English boy
[repeat verse]
Use me like a headline, cut pieces to pieces
I'm black on the tube line, red on the touch-line
Freezing up a future, stopping every stopwatch
You say we're moving like an oilslick, thicker than a housebrick
[bridge]
I'm an [F]English b[Ebadd9]oy, I was [Bb]brought up [Bbmaj7]right
If you raise your dress, then I will bite
My voice is clear, I got perfect poise
Good to [F]be down [Ebadd9]here with all the [Bb]English [Bbmaj7]boys
[Eb/Bb] And I don't know [Bb]where I am know or[F/Bb] where I'm gonna [Bb]go
I keep going [Cm7/Ab]round and round on the Circle L[Bb]ine
Like some demented kind of co[F]mmuter trying to avoid [Bb]paying for my ticket
[Eb/F] I'm a [C]lost soul,[F] I read about myself in the n[C]ewspapers
I'm a [F/C]pig, I'm a [C]thug, I've got [C]nowhere to go but [F5]down
[repeat intro]
[repeat verse]
Feel like I'm kicking at a dead man, kicking in the chorus
I'm broken by hatred, while politicians just ignore us
You never gave me any value, you didn't give me any reason
There's no tools and no toys for any English boys
[repeat cborus]
I'm an English boy, I was brought up right
Hold me down and I will bite
I know no fear, I will serve with joy
I'm proud to be here, an English boy, yeah...
[outro]
I'm an [F]English [Ebadd9]boy, yeah.[Bb]..[Bbmaj7]
No tools, no toys for any English boys
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