Geno Dexys Midnight Runners
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#]Back in sixty, the [B]weight of his work at de [C#]club (oh Ge[B]no)
??? [C#]Jimmy's my scene and the [B]rocksteady rub [C#] (oh [B]Geno)
On a [B]night when flowers didn't [F#m]suit my tune,
After a [B]week of longing, I'm [F#m]back in school,
Ge[B]no is heading the [F#m]crowd that night
A-just a-[B]?????? his ??????? and keeping [F#m]out of the fights.
[A]Academic [E]inspiration, [B]you gave me [F#]none,
[A]You were Mi[E]chael the lover, [B]the fighter that [F#]won,
[A]But now just [E]look at me as I'm a-[B]looking down on [F#]you,
[A]No I'm not [E]being flash it's what[B] I'm built to [F#]do.
[C#]
C# B (x2)
[C#]That man took the [B]stage, his towel swinging [C#]high (oh Ge[B]no)
[C#]This man was my [B]bombers, my dexys, my [C#]highs (oh [B]Geno)
Oh, the [B]crowd they all hailed you, and [F#m]chanted your name,
But they never [B]knew, like we knew, me and [F#m]you were the same,
And [B]now you're all over, your [F#m]sound is so tame,
Brrrrrr[B]i, you fed me and plainly I'll re[F#m]member your name,
[A]Academic [E]inspiration, [B]you gave me [F#]none,
[A]You were Mi[E]chael the lover, [B]the fighter that [F#]won,
[A]But now just [E]look at me as I'm a-[B]looking down on [F#]you,
[A]No I'm not [E]being flash it's [B]what I'm built to [F#]do.
A B F# E (x2) A B C#
(Instrumental)
[C#]
Oh Ge[B]no,[C#]
Woah [B]Geno
(repeat to fade)
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