Chords with lyrics
Key: C
Standard tuning - GCEA
Intro:
G Gmaj7 C D
G Gmaj7 C D
Verse 0:
G Gmaj7 C D G
The temptation is all too great and now it's gone and it's all too late.
Gmaj7 C D G
I tried and I tried, I never applied any of the morals that I wish I had.
Fill 1:
Gmaj7 C D
G Gmaj7 C D
Verse 1:
G Gmaj7 C D G
You wait fifty-one weeks through all your hides and all of your seeks.
Gmaj7 C D C
When the time finally arrives
it dawns on me attention derives
Pre-Chorus 1:
D D
from the girlfriend that you left at home,
D D
sitting in your living room all alone.
Chorus 1:
G Gmaj7 C D G
You hate the suntan and you can't stand to be 'round the short-sleeved man
Gmaj7 C D
and the gaggle o' girls who are singing too loud, well, they do my head in.
G Gmaj7 C D
You hate the tattoos and you can't handle the skinheads, the ones who cannot
G Gmaj7 C
handle their booze, they're making you scared to be proud.
C (D) C C (D) C
Are you scared to be proud? How can that still be?
D G
Come and sing your heart out with me.
Fill 2:
Gmaj7 C D
G Gmaj7 C D
Verse 2:
G Gmaj7 C D G
But if you bide your time and you stand there and you wait in line.
Gmaj7 C D C
It won't be long before her sarong is lying on your bathroom floor.
Pre-Chorus 2:
D D
But what about the girlfriend that you left at home,
D D
sitting in her living room all alone.
Chorus 2:
G Gmaj7 C D G
You hate the suntan and you can't stand to be 'round the short-sleeved man
Gmaj7 C D
and the gaggle o' girls who are singing too loud, well, they do my head in.
G Gmaj7 C D
You hate the tattoos and you can't handle the skinheads, the ones who cannot
G Gmaj7 C
handle their booze, they're making you scared to be proud.
C (D) C C (D) C
How is that still allowed? Are you scared to be proud?
D G
When you're on cloud number nine.
Fill 3:
Gmaj7 C D
G Gmaj7 C D
Pre-Chorus 3:
D D
And the girlfriend you left at home,
D D
sitting in your living room all alone.
Chorus 3:
G Gmaj7 C D G
You hate the suntan and you can't stand to be 'round the short-sleeved man
Gmaj7 C D
and the gaggle o' girls who are singing too loud, they fuckin' do my head in.
G Gmaj7 C D
You hate the tattoos and you can't handle the skinheads, the ones who cannot
G Gmaj7 C
handle their booze, they're making you scared to be proud.
C (D) C C (D) C
Are you scared to be proud? How is that still allowed?
D G
When you're on cloud number nine.
Outro:
Gmaj7 C D
G Gmaj7 C D
G Gmaj7 C D
G
NB. Chords not in brackets fall on the first beat of the bar
Chords in brackets fall mid-bar (note 2)
