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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