The Best Years Of Our Lives Album tab by Steve Harley

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THE MAD, MAD MOONLIGHT
Intro
A augmentedA  AsusAsus A augmentedA  AsusAsus A augmentedA G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
A majorA  AsusAsus A augmentedA  AsusAsus A augmentedA G+G F#F# FF
   D MajorD              G+G           D MajorD
It was just like a dream, yeah, a surreal scene, like a blue orange
I thought my senses had gone, like I was writing a song about a foot-long syringe
A augmentedA       G+G      D MajorD
And she said, "Hello, dear, it's my party
"So I     hope you'll be smart, hee hee  And I
said,"I don't know, but I think I'll go fix me
A(Intro riff")
a stiff drink"
    D MajorD                G+G
Well, I sat there and stared, because at first I was scared of this female tarzan
And while she talked with the apes about champagne and grapes, I approached her garden
   A augmentedA         G+G      D MajorD
And she said,"Now, now, don't try to leave me,
       "It's unfair to deceive me
       "I could kill if you try to escape me,
A augmentedA (intro riff)
come upstairs my friend"
 Emin   Bmin  FF        A augmentedA
Now I knew, I knew, I couldn't be that mean,
Emin     Bmin        FF       G+G       A augmentedA A augmentedA sus
so I tried, yeah I really tried to leave her but she was a big, big, big girl, big girl

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MR. RAFFLES
E MajorE                           G#G#
Man, it was mean to be seen in the robes you wore for Lent
               E MajorE
you must've known that it was Easter
                          G#G#
There for a while, in your smile, I could see Mexico blood say
           E MajorE
"This is true I was a teaser"
BB                B(b5) (see below)
There were a thousand manitas
being exchanged for pesetas

 B(b5) - BB with 5th flattened  G#7/C
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|--6-----4-6---4--------4-6-| |-------|
|------4---------4----4-----| |---5---|
|------------------3--------| |---4---|
|---------------------------| |---3---|
|---------------------------| |-------|

E MajorE      BB     G#7/C   C#min
Man, It was hard not to laugh out loud
                  G#G#
I couldn't believe the size of the crowd
               E MajorE
You must have fooled them into coming
E MajorE        BB    G#7/C   C#min
Wow, There were women and children, too
                 G#G#
They would have hanged us if they knew I think I know for certain
A augmentedA
Inside you sniggered so hearty, you only came for the party
E MajorE      BB      Amin  FF  G+G FF  E MajorE
Man, it was mean, it was mean, Man, it was mean
A augmentedA            E MajorE
You think you're so importantly clever
A augmentedA               E MajorE
I'll tell you now where thats at
A augmentedA           E MajorE
You can be this way forever and ever
Amin          BB   (BB C majorC G/DG/D B/Eb E MajorE)
sooner or later you'll fall
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IT WASN'T ME
B7B7             A augmentedA
It wasn't me who wrote the epitaph
I only burned the old girl's photograph
And threw the kitten in the fire, see
You ask me your father he'll remember me
G+G      E MajorE      G+G       E MajorE
It was so fantastic, he burned like a matchstick
A augmentedA                BB
You know I'm sorry for what I've done

 G+G   A augmentedA      BB  D MajorD  C majorC  BB    E MajorE
Now you say I'm responsible for killing them

 G+G  A augmentedA    BB   D MajorD C majorC BB      E MajorE D MajorD E/A D/G
I say it was God  He was willing them

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PANORAMA
C majorC
Murder follows me like a leech from sunset, hard on my

             FF
heels to the midnight beach

C majorC
Multitudes of every skin, around the glowing sparks
             FF
they begin to sing

G+G                 Emin
Everybody is watching the dancer, all the way from Barcelona

FF         G+G     FF        G+G
Teddy Boy's are farming, it's all a little alarming

C majorC           D MajorD
I felt forty-five and was barely alive

FF   Emin  D MajorD    G+G
Whoa oh woh oh

     C majorC            D MajorD
I saw a human tribe and was terrified

FF   Emin  D MajorD    G+G
Whoa oh woh oh

(solo over Amin G+G FF Emin Emin G+G)
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Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me)
Intro
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|----------------1-3-5-3-----0---|---------------|
|----------0-2-4-2-4-5-4-----0---|---------------|
|----0-2-3-----------------------|5-7-3-5----3---|
|2-3-----------------------------|5-5-5-3----3---|
|--------------------------------|---------------|
                          You've done it all..

FF             C majorC          G+G
...         You've broken every code....
     And pulled the rebel   to the floor...  You spoilt the
Game           no matter what you say....
        For only metal   what a bore..........
FF             C majorC
       Blue eyes    Blue eyes
FF             C majorC          G+G
    How come you tell...  So many lies..
DmDm             FF          C majorC         G+G
     Come up and see... me     make me smile..............
     Or do what you want      run on wild...............
FF             C majorC
Ooh...........................la la la
Ooh...........................la la la
G+G             G+G
Ooh..........................
DmDm             FF          C majorC         G+G
     Come up and see... me     make me smile..............
     Or do what you want      run on wild...............

Chords in solo FF E minorEm FF A minorAm E minorEm Em G+G G MajorG DmDm FF C majorC G+G DmDm FF C majorC G+G G MajorG
Solo starts like
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|2-0-2-2-0-2-2------02p0------0------------------------------------|
|------------------------------3-2-3-5-3-0---2---------------------|
|------------------------------------------3-----------------------|
|------------------------------------------------5-5-5-5-5---3-3---|

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BACK TO THE FARM
Emin      FF         Emin       G+G
Only twilight, calm and barkless; no more daylight, only darkness;

Emin     FF           D MajorD      C majorC  BB
Only twilight, only twilight made the change without delay

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49TH PARALLEL
E MajorE
Think I'll have lines on my face

             Fmin7
When I get out of this place

    D MajorD           BB
So I guess I'll be ever so careful

       E MajorE
It wouldn't help to deny

   Fmin7      D MajorD
I'm well advised to comply

               BB
By the rules or be ever so tearful

B7B7
I caught a vulture, he came up behind me
I put a chain on his claws
I caught another, been trying to find me
I slit a vein in his jaws
A augmentedA                      BB
Tied the two of them up with guitar-strings (only fed them a bone)
A augmentedA
Grinned and put my hands in my pockets
Amin              E MajorE   BB
To drift away to a land of my own
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THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
C majorC  C/BC/B  Amin  G+G   FF   C majorC
European Maids, hard to ignore
 You, me and the boys, barred from the shore
FF            C majorC
Fresh-faced imbeciles, laughing at me
I've been laughing myself, is that so hard to see?
Do I have to spell each letter out, honestly!
      FF              C majorC
If there's no room for laughter there's no room for me
Dmin        G+G
For me....
FF         Emin       Dmin   C majorC
You'll think it's tragic when that moment arrives