The Great Escape chords by I Am Kloot

Chords with lyrics

The Great Escape - I A minorAm Kloot
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By: dr_silverrose

Originally performed by John Bramwell, the I A minorAm Kloot lead guitar/vocalist, under the
name Johnny Dangerously. Can be found on I A minorAm Kloot's Album "B", a B-side compilation
album, released 2009. Featured prominently in the 2003 BBC Comedy Early Doors, Series 2,
Episode 5.

This is a very simple song with standard chords and strumming, easy to learn, fun to
sing and play.


Standard tuning

C majorC   x32010
DmDm   xx0231
G+G   320033
FF   xx3211

Capo 4

C majorC         DmDm          G+G      C majorC
You were born with football boots and a suntan complexion

     FF         DmDm      G+G
You once thought that on reflection, I've really got it made

C majorC        DmDm         G+G    C majorC
You shrugged and smiled and made the usual excuses

  FF        DmDm     G+G         C majorC
You suffered small abuses, and settled for their pay

FF      DmDm         G+G    C majorC
You want to learn to live like an aristocrat

FF           DmDm         G+G
But your girlfriend's earrings well they soon put pay to that

      FF        DmDm    G+G        C majorC
and if the whole world came crashing, down around your ears

     FF        DmDm      G+G
You could dream of stucco wallpaper and crystal chandeliers


C majorC     DmDm         G+G        C majorC
You cashed in your cards, you want to buy some glamour

  FF     DmDm          G+G
You really are enamoured, with that new soap on a rope

C majorC       DmDm       G+G        C majorC
A augmentedA thousand fat comedians came in disguised as clerics

   FF       DmDm     G+G
They got you in hysterics, and walked off with your soul

       FF      DmDm      G+G         C majorC
and with that cheapskate, royalty, you get your flag and wave

   FF        DmDm     G+G
Well I've seen you on TV grinning at the motorcade

    FF          DmDm       G+G
 C majorC
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, we'll string them up like drapes

     FF        DmDm      G+G
And I'll ride around like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape

C majorC     DmDm         G+G        C majorC
You hung around too long, your mother read your letters

  FF         DmDm   G+G
You grinned like a go-getter, come and got and gone

C majorC      DmDm          G+G      C majorC
The time the morning slips, blends into the wallpaper

  FF       DmDm       G+G
and once you could escape her, but where did you go wrong

     FF        DmDm         G+G       C majorC
and your father's at the factory that makes money selling guns

   FF          DmDm         G+G
That fought the wars that spent the lives of other peoples sons

    FF          DmDm         G+G
   C majorC
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, we'll string them up like drapes

     FF        DmDm      G+G
And I'll ride around like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape


C majorC         DmDm          G+G      C majorC
You were born with football boots and a suntan complexion

     FF         DmDm       G+G       C majorC
You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made

     FF         DmDm       G+G       C majorC
You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made

     FF         DmDm           G+G
  C majorC