Stand Up Tragedy Acoustic chords by The Fratellis

Intro:
G Em X4

Verse:
G     Em      G    Em        G Em X2
Pardon me sugar I'm the man underneath your thumb
  G         Em       G        Em    G Em X2
But I won't take your violence and I won't chew your bubblegum
G      Em     G      Em    G Em X2
White heat, indiscreet, any day now obsolete
G            Em
Though you've seen your best days
G              Em
I would still walk down your empty street
   C                D          G Em X2
Well you look like salvation but you taste like a refugee
   C
Well you say you got no soul but you look like you do to me

  G
If I was the melody you were the symphony
       C         D
Honey loving you took the very best of me
  G
I don't need your red wine covered sympathy
       C         D
Just another punchline in your stand up tragedy

Break:
G Em X4

Verse:
   G          Em
Well I've been pushing up daisies
    G         Em       G Em X2
Just to catch a glimpse of something real
G       Em
When I see you coming
 G         Em        G Em X2
I might just as well give up and kneel
  G    Em
I came saw broke your law
G        Em    G Em X2
Any day now I'll withdraw
G        Em     G      Em     G Em X2
I chewed on your intentions just to dislocate my jaw
   C               D          G Em X2
Well if you saw me broken won't you put me out my misery
   C              D
Well I don't do handsome and you don't do sympathy

Chorus:
  G
If I was the melody you were the symphony
       C         D
Honey loving you took the very best of me
  G
I don't need your red wine covered sympathy
       C         D
Just another punchline in your stand up tragedy

G       C  C7 G      C C7
Wrong from the get go, let it slide
G       C     C7
Tell them what they don't know
D         C    C7
Sing them praises far and wide
G     C  C7 G     C  C7
Eat those peaches, ring them bells
G        C   C7
Mama don't know what she preaches
D
But she sure looks dignified

Well she sure looks dignified

Well she sure looks dignified

Chorus:
  G
If I was the melody you were the symphony
       C         D
Honey loving you took the very best of me
  G
I don't need your red wine covered sympathy
       C         D
Just another punchline in your stand up tragedy

G
Take my hungry guarantee
         C         D
I could be your slave if you'd only beg for me
G
I don't need your red wine covered sympathy
       C
Just another punchline in your
D7
Stand up, sit down, lie back, turn round, play dead for me

Stand up tragedy