Belsen Was A Gas chords by The Sex Pistols

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 F to the G

w/ Johnny Rotten

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

chorus (played twice)
C  G  C  G C  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 C Bb C  D C G  x2

verse
D      C    Bb      C
Belsen was a gas I heard ...
D       C        G
In the open graves ...
D     C     Bb     C
Life is fun and I wish you ...
D      C        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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