The Great Escape chords by I Am Kloot

The Great Escape - I Am Kloot
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By: dr_silverrose

Originally performed by John Bramwell, the I Am Kloot lead guitar/vocalist, under the
name Johnny Dangerously. Can be found on I Am 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   x32010
Dm   xx0231
G   320033
F   xx3211


Capo 4

C         Dm          G      C
You were born with football boots and a suntan complexion

     F         Dm      G
You once thought that on reflection, I've really got it made

C        Dm         G    C
You shrugged and smiled and made the usual excuses

  F        Dm     G         C
You suffered small abuses, and settled for their pay

F      Dm         G    C
You want to learn to live like an aristocrat

F           Dm         G
But your girlfriend's earrings well they soon put pay to that

      F        Dm    G        C
and if the whole world came crashing, down around your ears

     F        Dm      G
You could dream of stucco wallpaper and crystal chandeliers


C     Dm         G        C
You cashed in your cards, you want to buy some glamour

  F     Dm          G
You really are enamoured, with that new soap on a rope

C       Dm       G        C
A thousand fat comedians came in disguised as clerics

   F       Dm     G
They got you in hysterics, and walked off with your soul

       F      Dm      G         C
and with that cheapskate, royalty, you get your flag and wave

   F        Dm     G
Well I've seen you on TV grinning at the motorcade

    F          Dm       G
 C
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, we'll string them up like drapes

     F        Dm      G
And I'll ride around like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape


C     Dm         G        C
You hung around too long, your mother read your letters

  F         Dm   G
You grinned like a go-getter, come and got and gone

C      Dm          G      C
The time the morning slips, blends into the wallpaper

  F       Dm       G
and once you could escape her, but where did you go wrong

     F        Dm         G       C
and your father's at the factory that makes money selling guns

   F          Dm         G
That fought the wars that spent the lives of other peoples sons

    F          Dm         G
   C
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, we'll string them up like drapes

     F        Dm      G
And I'll ride around like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape


C         Dm          G      C
You were born with football boots and a suntan complexion

     F         Dm       G       C
You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made

     F         Dm       G       C
You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made

     F         Dm           G
  C