Poetry And Jazz chords by John Otway

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: D MajorD

Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:
D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD D5/A Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD  x8


Verse 1:
        D MajorD                 A augmentedA
She said it’s hard for me to explain to you the brightness of the light,
               D MajorD
I can still remember when my life was like that
                A augmentedA                             D MajorD
A augmentedA real and painless beauty I remember as a kid, when I thought that I knew everything, and in a way I did
      D MajorD    G+G   F# minorF#m     A augmentedA       D MajorD     G+G       F# minorF#m    A augmentedA
She was a virgin then, a child in a million, with deep round hazel eyes of blazing intuition
   D MajorD       G+G       F# minorF#m          A augmentedA
She called me over to her side and said will you please listen
  D MajorD        G+G     F# minorF#m          A augmentedA
I want to show you something, something I’ve just written
     G+G     G+G  F# minorF#m  D MajorD
And I’m calling it Poetry And Jazz

Verse 2:
   D MajorD               A augmentedA                            D MajorD
She watched her happy family turn to a broken home, her father left with someone else, her mother on her own
               A augmentedA                          D MajorD
Her fourteenth birthday her mother spent in tears, she celebrated on her own her adolescent years
    D MajorD     G+G  F# minorF#m      A augmentedA        D MajorD     G+G      F# minorF#m       A augmentedA
It was hell then,  caught in the crossfire of an emotional triangle she couldn’t keep together
D MajorD      G+G       F# minorF#m       A augmentedA
I held her softly and she sobbed upon my shoulder
    D MajorD        G+G        F# minorF#m      A augmentedA
Saying as you are the closest thing that I’ve got to a brother
  G+G      G+G   F# minorF#m   D MajorD
Explain to me, why is life so sad


Verse 3:
 D MajorD             A augmentedA                 D MajorD
Sixteen was better, cause sixteen was boys, makeup, parties, alcohol and clothes
                  A augmentedA                           D MajorD
And saying to your boyfriend, come on get out of bed, its 3 o’clock in the afternoon, my mother’s coming back
     D MajorD   G+G    F# minorF#m        A augmentedA       D MajorD       G+G         F# minorF#m      A augmentedA
And she smiled then, her eyes filled with laughter, she didn’t know if it was love but it didn’t really matter
   D MajorD         G+G      F# minorF#m      A augmentedA
She called me on the phone and said get this big brother
   D MajorD        G+G        F# minorF#m     A augmentedA
I’ve just got rid of one boyfriend and got myself another
     G+G    G+G  F# minorF#m   D MajorD
And listen, this one drives a Jag

Verse 4:
   D MajorD               A augmentedA                D MajorD
She left school and boyfriend for university, three years of study for an arts degree
                 A augmentedA                       D MajorD
Her clothes were outrageous, her hair was many colours, her work was radical and so were her ideas
   D MajorD       G+G    F# minorF#m       A augmentedA   D MajorD       G+G      F# minorF#m       A augmentedA
She said this is brilliant, this place is heaven – on a score of 1 to 10 I’d give this place 11
  D MajorD         G+G     F# minorF#m       A augmentedA   D MajorD        G+G      F# minorF#m        A augmentedA
It kicks you up the arse and it fires you with ambition, I often used to feel as if my life was just a prison
    G+G     G+G   F# minorF#m    D MajorD
Now I realise it isn’t quite that bad


Verse 5:
     D MajorD            A augmentedA                           D MajorD
I was invited to an exhibition a little while ago to an art gallery in Paris where she has a studio
                  A augmentedA                           D MajorD
She looked sophisticated, she was wearing a bronze tan, and she’d sold all her work for some outrageous sum
    D MajorD     G+G   F# minorF#m     A augmentedA
And I looked at her and I started laughing
         D MajorD       G+G        F# minorF#m     A augmentedA
I said you’re supposed to be an artist, you’re supposed to be suffering
   D MajorD        G+G      F# minorF#m       A augmentedA
And she just smiled back and she pointed to this picture
    D MajorD      G+G         F# minorF#m       A augmentedA
Of a young girl around which she’d written out this poem
    G+G       G+G  F# minorF#m  D MajorD
She’d shown me once, Poetry And Jazz


Verse 6:
 D MajorD          A augmentedA                          D MajorD
My name is Angela, I am 12 years old, I’ve given up on working hard and doing as I’m told
                  A augmentedA                       D MajorD
I see a child psychologist who’s spotted in my head a recipe for delinquency or something just as bad
     D MajorD   G+G   F# minorF#m   A augmentedA      D MajorD         G+G        F# minorF#m      A augmentedA
And I’ll fight   for my independence, I see the world in another way to my teacher and my parents
   D MajorD      G+G        F# minorF#m       A augmentedA    D MajorD      G+G   F# minorF#m    A augmentedA
My priorities are different and my life is not as aimless, I am not disruptive, I am not dangerous
    G+G          G+G  F# minorF#m     D MajorD
I've rhythm and purpose, like Poetry and Jazz


Verse 7:
        D MajorD                 A augmentedA
She said it’s hard for me to explain to you the brightness of the light,
               D MajorD
I can still remember when my life was like that
                A augmentedA                             D MajorD
A augmentedA real and painless beauty I remember as a kid when I thought that I knew everything, and in a way I did


Riff:
   D MajorD           A augmentedA
e|-------0---0-2---2-3-2-0----|
BB|-3---3-----------------3----|
G+G|---2-----2-----2-------3----|
D MajorD|-----------------------3----|
A augmentedA|----------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------|