Belsen Was A Gas chords by The Sex Pistols

Chords with lyrics

artist: Sex Pistols
title: Belsen Was a Gas
album: The Great Rock and Roll Swindle
tuning: standard

There are two differing versions of this tune, the Sex Pistols version
with Johnny Rotten and the one with Ronald Biggs. Here's both.

F-G means slide up from the FF to the G+G

w/ Johnny Rotten

intro: D MajorD C majorC D MajorD Eb MajorEb D MajorD C majorC G+G  x2
D MajorD      C majorC    D MajorD       Eb MajorEb
Belsen was a gas I heard ...
D MajorD       C majorC       G+G
In the open graves ...
D MajorD    C majorC     D MajorD       Eb MajorEb
Life is fun and I wish ...
D MajorD         C majorC     G+G
They wrote on ...

chorus (played twice)
C majorC  G+G  C majorC  G+G C majorC  G+G  F-G  F-G
oh dear oh ...

second verse
Sergeant majors on the ....

chorus (twice)
so bad so ...

intro

repeat first verse

outro: ad lib chorus


with Ronald Biggs:

ok, this time for real Belsen was a gasser


intro: D MajorD C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC  D MajorD C majorC G+G  x2

verse
D MajorD      C majorC    Bb majorBb      C majorC
Belsen was a gas I heard ...
D MajorD       C majorC        G+G
In the open graves ...
D MajorD     C majorC     Bb majorBb     C majorC
Life is fun and I wish you ...
D MajorD      C majorC        G+G
They wrote on postcards ...

chorus (same as other version)

second verse
Dentists search their teeth ....

chorus
kill a man be a ....

intro

third verse
Wonder what the jews ....

chorus
Ledbetter Ledbetter Ledbetter

outro: ad lib chorus


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