The Human Menagerie Album tab by Steve Harley

Tabs

but they are here for reference. Hope they help.


Hideaway                  Chords
 Intro Repeat 4 times            E minorEm     B minorBm    D MajorD
|---------------------8-7---8-7-------------------------------------|
|---7-8-----7--8-10-------------10-8-7------8----------7---------7--|
|7-9------9----------------------------9-7--9----------7---------7--|
|-------------------------------------------9----------9---------7--|
|-------------------------------------------7----------9---------5--|
|------------------------------------------------------7------------|
E minorEm                        B minorBm
Let them come a running, take all your money and hideaway
Let them come a running, take all your money and flee
Let them come a running, take all your money and hideaway, hideaway

D MajorD                   E minorEm
It was summer or maybe spring, I can't remember
It was summer or maybe spring, I can't recall
We found our hearts and stole them from our bodies
(We couldn't understand the Villain's call)
We'd often recall the beginnings
We'd often try in vain to change it all
We couldn't help but keep ourselves from sinning
D MajorD          E minorEm        E minorEm        E minorEm
In summer, in summer or maybe spring, or maybe spring, or maybe spring

What Ruthy Said
Start chugging away with an A augmentedA chord then
 D MajorD        D MajorD        A augmentedA     G+G A augmentedA
|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|7--------------|7--------------|---------------|
|7--------------|7--------------|6--------------|
|7--------------|7--------------|7----------5-7-|
|5--------------|5--------------|7----------5-7-|
|---------------|---------------|5----------3-5-|
 Your...     Berlin..    Model
You're wearing grey today, you're from Berlin I'd say you're a model

 A augmentedA        A augmentedA        D MajorD     G+G A augmentedA
|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|---------------|---------------|7--------------|
|6--------------|6--------------|7--------------|
|7--------------|7--------------|7----------5-7-|
|7--------------|7--------------|5----------5-7-|
|5--------------|5--------------|-----------3-5-|
 Can...     fashion too   Wobble
Can I be blue for you, like I'm in fashion too? See me wobble

 D MajorD        D MajorD        F# minorF#m
|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|7--------------|7--------------|---------------|
|7--------------|7--------------|2--------------|
|7--------------|7--------------|4--------------|
|5--------------|5--------------|4--------------|
|---------------|---------------|2--------------|
 We'll...    Best..     throttle
We'll be a pair of swells and dig the best hotels Hit the throttle

 B minorBm       B minorBm       A augmentedA
|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|3--------------|3--------------|---------------|
|4--------------|4--------------|6--------------|
|4--------------|4--------------|7--------------|
|2--------------|2--------------|7--------------|
|---------------|---------------|5--------------|
 We'll do..   life we knew.. gay
We'll do the rhumba too and say the life we knew was so gay

Repeat the chord pattern for the rest of the song.

Loretta's Tale
Intro
G+G
|--------------------|
|0-1-3--3-5-3--------|
|--------------------|
|------------3-------|
|--------------------|
|--------------------|twice

 Verse
 G+G Strum Chords G+G        G+G        C/GC/G
|3--------------|---------------|---------------|0--------------|
|3--------------|---------------|---------------|1--------------|
|0--------------|---------------|---------------|0--------------|
|0--------------|---------------|---------------|2--------------|
|2--------------|---------------|---------------|3--------------|
|3--------------|---------------|---------------|3--------------|
 Watch...       Kick....          behind
 Like         Ask            been
 C majorC        A minorAm       A minorAm       G+G        G+G
|3--------------|0--------------|---------------|---------------|
|5--------------|1--------------|---------------|---------------|
|5--------------|2--------------|---------------|---------------|
|5--------------|2--------------|---------------|---------------|
|3--------------|0--------------|---------------|---------------|
|---------------|---------------|---------------|-----------3-2-|
 Sprawl..    then      Speak...    again
 She says    lies      I've      times

Chorus
 E minorEm       C majorC
|0--------------|0--------------|
|0--------------|1--------------|
|0--------------|0--------------|
|2--------------|2--------------|
|2--------------|3--------------|
|0--------------|---------------|
 I never lost control...
 It was a very.. show
 All I ever..  oh..............
 C majorC        G+G        G+G        D MajorD        D MajorD
|---------------|3--------------|---------------|2--------------|
|---------------|0--------------|---------------|3--------------|
|---------------|0--------------|---------------|2--------------|
|---------------|0--------------|---------------|0--------------|
|---------------|2--------------|---------------|---------------|
|---------------|3--------------|---------------|---------------|
 ..................       Are you ........go

For the slower bit ad lib on a C majorC with D MajorD bass and D MajorD chords
 C/DC/D       D MajorD
|0--------------|1--------------|
|1--------------|2--------------|
|0--------------|1--------------|
|0--------------|0--------------|
|---------------|---------------|
|---------------|---------------|
 For Loretta one
 She only played for fun
 She give her life away
 Counted hundreds, came to none...

Instrumental
Intro X 4 then
|----------------15-15-15-15-14-12-14p12-12---------------------|
|--------------------------twice--------------------------------|
|4-4-4-4-4.4h5-------------------------------5-5-5-5-4-2h4------|
|-twice---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|

|20-20-20-20-19-17-19----15-15-15-15-14-12-14p12-12-------------|
|------twice----------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
                          I never...

Crazy Raver
 Strum along on a D MajorD & G+G chord for the first 4 lines
D MajorD
Lazy stage-star; wanna be a raver
G+G            D MajorD
You've gotta make it all happen insane
D MajorD
Crazy raver; wanna be a big star
G+G            D MajorD
You've gotta make it all happen again

then
 D MajorD        B minorBm       A augmentedA        G+G        D MajorD
|---------------|2--------------|---------------|---------------|
|7--------------|3--------------|---------------|---------------|
|7--------------|4--------------|6--------------|4--------------|
|7----------7-6-|4--------------|7--------------|5--------------|
|5----------5-4-|2--------------|7----------7-6-|5--------------|
|---------------|---------------|5----------5-4-|3--------------|
         You want    They'll..    You'll...    all

G+G                 D MajorD
So while you're there you'd better show us a ball
And wear your sequins or wear nothing at all
Take us to heaven with our backs to the wall
The climbing's hard but it's easy to fall
Oh! here's a monkey with a message for us all
G+G       A augmentedA     D MajorD
Go be a Crazy Raver, oh! oh! yeah
Go be a Crazy Raver

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Sebastion
Note - Apparently this was written in C minorCm G minorGm Bb(Thanks Hans).
To play along with the song it's a semi tone lower.
So I use B minorBm F# minorF#m & A augmentedA

Intro - Pluck Chord
 B minorBm         Trill (hammer on & off quickly)
|2-------2----------2~3-------------------------|
|3---------3------------3~4-2~3-3-2-------------|
|4-----4-----4----------------------4-----------|
|4---4------------------------------------------|
|2-2--------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|

F# minorF#m                   B minorBm
Radiate simply, the candle is burning, so low for me
Generate me limply, can't seem to place your name, cherie
To rearrange all these thoughts in a moment is suicide
Come to a strange place, we'll talk over old times we never smile
A augmentedA           B minorBm
Somebody called me Sebastian
Somebody called me Sebastian
F# minorF#m    B minorBm   F# minorF#m     B minorBm  F# minorF#m   B minorBm
Work out a rhyme, toss me the time, lay me, you're mine
B minorBm        A augmentedA
And we all know, oh yeah!

Just before the ad lib fade out
Pluck with palm mute
|14-12-------14-12----------------|repeat
|------15-12-------15-12-12-14-15-|
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|

With orchestra
|---------------------------------|repeat
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|4-2-----4-2----------------------|
|----5-2-----5-2-2-4-5------------|
|---------------------------------|

F# minorF#m & B minorBm for the fade out

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Mirror Freak
Intro
 E minorEm
|0-0-0-3bp0-3/5br-5-5-3-0-0-------|repeat
|0--------------------------------|
|0--------------------------------|
|2--------------------------------|
|2--------------------------------|
|0--------------------------------|
E minorEm
Exhibition yourself we'll hold a show on the shelf
E minorEm     G+G        A augmentedA     E minorEm
Now we can feel a change is on the way

E minorEm
You're not a skin or a spiv boy who are you trying to kid
E minorEm      G+G        A augmentedA      E minorEm
You're jolly handsome, super, wizard, okay?

E minorEm    G+G         A augmentedA        E minorEm
Would you resort to telling all your friends lies
E minorEm      G+G           A augmentedA      E minorEm
When they can see right through your flimsy disguise?
E minorEm
We all consider you far out so there can be little doubt
E minorEm      G+G      A augmentedA     E minorEm
You're gonna make it in a big, big way

Chorus:
E minorEm     D MajorD     A augmentedA      E minorEm
Oh we can feel a new existence beginning
And the yobs have made a go at forgiving
And the new man he appears to be winning
E minorEm          BB
What a shame such a bore!

D MajorD       A augmentedA     E minorEm
I don't wanna turn on tonite
Said I don't wanna turn on tonite

Outro D MajorD A augmentedA E minorEm pattern

E minorEm
|17-17-17-17-15-12-15-12-12----------12-12-12-------20-20-20--|
|---------------------------etc-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------|continue using note from E MajorE blues scales
|-------------------------------------------------------------|         (close enough)
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------|


My Only Vice (Is The Fantastic Prices I Charge For Being Eaten Alive)
(Chords supplied by Hans Peters)
Use this beat line D-C-G-G
D MajorD        C majorC        G+G
Simply Lorraine sings for a while
In a three-octave harmonica style

C majorC              C majorC          D MajorD  C majorC G+G G+G
It's easy to see her harmony stabbing at my songs from behind
Trying to stick her cosmic philosopher's words into rhymes......

Nobody can tell it the same
To her evcrything's just like a game
But she'll make it seem some big machine's driving you clean outa your mind
Come on admit it, that's just the limit, we've travelled from mad to sublime

Chorus:
E minorEm           C majorC       D MajorD
Oh she's a lady from a background of pearls
Who's tormenting and bending my world

E minorEm      D MajorD C majorC  G+G      C majorC  D MajorD G+G   D MajorD  C majorC  G+G D MajorD C majorC  G+G
My only vice is the fantastic prices I charge for being eaten alive. . .

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Muriel the Actor
C majorC
She, got my number and she - chasing me so far

FF
Me, out of slumber, I can do with no faut-pas

G+G           FF
Mixed-up and bleeding, I's high on beleiving

C majorC
It's all surreal

Slip on a T-shirt, me - gotta look so cool
Me Biba braces are making me so cruel
She, dinosaur and me, her He-whore
Sleep Muriel

Chorus:
C majorC                G+G
Oh! See her move so right in her big baggy strides

    FF           C majorC
And her golden top made of satin

See her wriggle her hips, take the almighty piss
This is Muriel the Actor who's rapping,

G+G     FF      C majorC
Muriel the actor she's rapping ping - ping

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Chameleon
C majorC      FF    G+G  C majorC
and Louise, cowering into nowhere

FF      G+G     C majorC    FF           C majorC
speaking in terms of a foreign land where winter lies easy

FF            G+G    C majorC        FF
and she will surmise the guise of chateau eyes and rise . . .


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Death Trip (Thanks to Hans again)
Chord Pattern G-------F-------Em------Eb--D7--
G+G
So now we're on a death trip
FF
listen to the blood drip
E minorEm
oozing from a curled lip
Eb MajorEb      D7D7    G+G      FF
ever thought of dying slowly
E minorEm          Eb MajorEb D7D7 G+G
ever thought of dying totally unholy

D MajorD     D/G
We'll grow Sweet Ipomoea

 G+G
|--------------------------------------------|repeat
|--------------------------------------------|
|----------5--5-7-5-----5--5-7-5---------7---|
|5---7-8-5----------8-5----------8-5---5-----|
|------------------------------------------5-|