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Sweet Gene Vincent Ian Dury and The Blockheads
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Blue Gene baby..[F].
F, Dm (x2)
[F] Skinny white sailor,
The [Dm]chances were slender,
The [F]beauties were brief. [Dm]
Shall I [F]mourn your decline,
With some [Dm]thunderbird wine,
And a black [F]hankercheif? [Dm]
I miss your [F]sad;
Virginia [Bb]whisper.
I miss the [G7]voice;
That called my [C]heart. [C+]
[Bb] Sweet [Am]Gene [Dm]Vincent,
[Bb] Young and [Am]old and [Gm]gone,
[C] Sweet [A7]Gene [Dm]Vincent.
(n.C)
Who, who,
Who slapped John?
Interlude:
(Faster Tempo):
G, D, G
Break:
G (n.C)
White face,
Black shirt,
White socks,
Black shoes,
Black hair,
White strat,
Bled white,
Died black.
Verse 1:
[G] Sweet [C]Gene [G]Vincent,
Let the [C]blue cats,
Roll to-[G]night; [D]
At the [G]sock hop [C]ball,
In the [G]union [C]hall,
Where the [G]bop is,
[D] Their de-[G]light.
Verse 2:
Here come [G]duck-tailed [C]Danny,
Dragging [G]Uncanny Annie,
She's the [C]one with,
The flying [G]feet. [D]
You can [G]break the [C]peace,
Daddy [G]sickle [C]grease,
The [G]beat is [D]reet com-[G]plete.
Bridge 1:
And you [C]jump back honey,
In the dungerees,
Tight [G]sweater and,
A pony [G7]tail;
Will you [C]guess her age,
When she comes back stage?
The [A7]hoodlums bite,
Their [D7]nails. [C#7]
Solo:
C, G G7
[C] [D7] [G]
Break:
G (n.C)
Black gloves,
White frost,
Black crepe,
White lead,
White sheet,
Black knight,
Jet black,
Dead white.
Verse 3:
[G] Sweet [C]Gene [G]Vincent,
There's [C]one in every [G]town,[D]
And the [G]devil [C]drives,
'Till the [G]hearse ar-[C]rives,
And you [G]lay that [D]pistol [G]down.
Verse 4:
[G] Sweet [C]Gene [G]Vincent,
There's [C]nowhere,
Left to [G]hide. [D]
With [G]lazy [C]skin,
And [G]ash-tray [C]eyes,
A [G]perfo-[D]rated [G]pride.
Solo:
D C (x2)
Verse 5:
So farewell ma-[G]demoi-[C]selle,
Knicker-[G]bocker hotel,
Fare-[C]well to money [G]owed. [D]
But when your [G]leg still [C]hurts,
And you [G]need more [C]shirts,
You got to [G]get back [D]on the [G]road.
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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[F] [Dm] [Bb] [G7] [C] [C+] [Bb] [Am]
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[Gm] [A7] [G] [D] [D7] [C#7]
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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)
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