Chords with lyrics
Album: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Year: 1974
Tabbed by: Wiktor Ko owiecki
E-mail: [email protected]
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Verse 1:
A augmentedA F#F#
These are your orders - seems like it's do it or die
A augmentedA F#F#
So please read them closely, When you've read them be sure that you eat them up -
E MajorE
They're specially flavoured with Burgundy, Tizer and Rye
A augmentedA F#F#
Twelve sheets of foolscap: don't ask me why.
Verse 2:
A augmentedA F#F#
We hit the jungle, Just as it starts to monsoon:
A augmentedA F#F#
Our maps showed no rainfall. All the boys were depressed by this circumstance
E MajorE
"Trust in the weather" said less agricultural men
A augmentedA F#F#
Who gives birth to more farmhands, don't ask me why.
Chorus:
A augmentedA F#F#
Fifteen was chosen because he was dumb, seven because he was blind:
A augmentedA F#F#
I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind.
E MajorE
Drifting about through the cauliflower trees with a cauliflower ear for the birds,
A augmentedA F#F#
The squadron assembled what senses they had and this is the sound that they heard...
Instrumental:
A augmentedA E MajorE D MajorD A augmentedA
Verse 3:
A augmentedA F#F#
Back at headquarters, khaki decisions are made
A augmentedA F#F#
File under "Futile": that should give you its main point of reference
E MajorE
It's all so confusing, what with pythons and then deadly flies
A augmentedA F#F#
But to them, it's a picnic, don't ask me why.
Chorus:
A augmentedA F#F#
Thirteen was chosen because of his luck, eleven because of his feet:
A augmentedA F#F#
One got signed up for exceptional pluck, another because he was mute.
E MajorE
Roaming about through the gelatine swamps with a gelatine eye on the stripes,
A augmentedA F#F#
The squadron assembled what senses they had and this is the sound that they heard...
Outro:
A augmentedA E MajorE
Back in Blighty, there was you There were milkmen every morning
D MajorD A augmentedA
But these endless shiny trees, never used to be that way.
(repeat until fade)
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25.07.2015
Lublin, Poland