Real Men Acoustic chords by Joe Jackson

Tuning: EADGBE

REAL MEN - Joe Jackson

Em  D  G  D  Em  D  C  D  C  D  C  D

Em          D      G
Take your mind back, I don't know when.
D         Em        D       C
Sometimes when it always seemed to be just us and them.
Em          D       G
Girls that wore pink, boys that wore blue.
D        Em       D        C D C D C D
Boys that always grew up better men than me and you.
Em        D      G
What's a man now, what's a man mean.
   D       Em      D      C
Is he rough or is he rugged, is he cultural and clean.
Em             D       G
Now it's all changed, it's got to change more,
     D         Em      D       C
cause we think it's getting better but no-body's really sure.

CHORUS
  C   D    C    D
And so it goes, go round a-gain,
  C    D    C   D    G  A  B
but now and then we wonder who the real men are.

B  A  B  A  G  Bm  C  D  C  D

Em         D     G
See the nice boys, dancing in pairs.
D        Em     D        C
Golden earring, golden tan, blow wave in the hair.
Em             D       G
Sure they're all straight, straight as a line.
D        Em        D         C D C D C D
All the gays are macho, can't you see their leather shine.
     Em            D     G
You don't want to sound dumb. Don't want to of-fend,
  D        Em       D       C
so don't call me a faggot, not un-less you are a friend.
Em           D      G
Then if you're tall and handsome and strong,
D        Em     D       C
you can wear the uniform and I could play a-long.

CHORUS

Em         D       G
Time to get scared, time to change plan.
      D       Em        D      C
Don't know how to treat a lady, don't know how to be a man.
Em         D      G
Time to admit what you call de-feat,
       D       Em        D         C D C D C D
cause there's women running past you now and you just drag your feet.
Em        D      G
Man makes a gun, man goes to war.
D       Em        D       C
Man can kill, man can drink and man can take a whore.
Em          D      G
Kill all the Blacks, kill all the Reds.
      D        Em         D      C
If there's war between the sexes then there'll be no people left.