Stand Up Tragedy chords by The Fratellis

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: A augmentedA

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
|A augmentedA x4

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

Chorus:
A augmentedA
If I was the melody you were the symphony
       D MajorD         E MajorE
Honey loving you took the very best of me
          A augmentedA
I don’t need your red wine covered sympathy
       D MajorD         E MajorE     A augmentedA
Just another punch line in your stand up tragedy

Verse:
        A augmentedA
Well I’ve been pushing up daisies
Just to catch a glimpse of something real
 A augmentedA
When I see you coming
I might just as well give up and kneel
   D MajorD
Well if you saw me broken
     E MajorE       A augmentedA
Would you put me out my misery?
    D MajorD              E MajorE      A augmentedA
Well I don’t do handsome and you don’t do sympathy

Verse:
E MajorE       A augmentedA
If I was the melody you were the symphony
       D MajorD        E MajorE
Honey loving you took the very best of me
         A augmentedA
I don’t need your red wine covered sympathy
        D MajorD        E MajorE
Just another punchline in your stand up tragedy

Bridge:
A augmentedA            D MajorD    C majorC
Wrong from the get go, let it slide
A augmentedA
Tell them what they don’t know
Sing them praises far and wide
D MajorD          C majorC
Give those speeches, ring them bells
      A augmentedA
Mama don’t know what she preaches
E MajorE
But she sure looks dignified
E MajorE
Well she sure looks dignified
E MajorE
Well she sure looks dignified

Chorus:
        A augmentedA
If I was the melody you were the symphony
       D MajorD         E MajorE
Honey loving you took the very best of me
          A augmentedA
I don’t need your red wine covered sympathy
       D MajorD         E MajorE
Just another punchline in your stand up tragedy

Outro:
A augmentedA
Take my hungry guarantee
         D MajorD          E MajorE
I could be your slave if you’d only beg for me
         A augmentedA
I don’t need your red wine covered sympathy
       D MajorD
Just another punchline in your
 E MajorE
Stand up, sit down, lie back, turn round, play dead for me
 E MajorE
Stand up tragedy

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