Please Be Gentle With Me chords by Supernaturals

"Please be gentle with me" by
     "The Supernaturals" from the album
     "It doesn't matter anymore" on
     "Food Records".
     Transcribed by Gary Perkin, November 1997.
     Not many words with the CD, so this is what they sound like to me.


     Intro: (roughly)
     ------

     a) Opening bass riff which continues through the intro and most of the
        verse.

        D               G               D               D
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
     e---------------------------------------------------------------------
     B---------------------------------------------------------------------
     G---------------------------------------------------------------------
     D---------------------------------------------------------------------
     A--5-5---5-5-5---5-----------------5-5---5-5-5---5-5-5---5-5-5---5----
     E------------------3-3---3-3-3---3------------------------------------

     b) Next phrase, played on the CD on I don't know what instrument...

        D               G               D               D
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
     e------8-----7---------8-----7---------8-----7---------8-----7--------
     B---------------------------------------------------------------------
     G---------------------------------------------------------------------
     D------------------5--------------------------------------------------
     A--5-------------------------------5---------------5------------------
     E---------------------------------------------------------------------


     Verse 1: (Sung over the intro)
     --------

     D         G           D  D
     Please be gentle ...

               D         G                  D        D
     'cos I've been on a long, ...

              A                                 G
     And I've been down in the ...

            A
     And my clothes don't ...

            G                (DDDD D2D2D2 x 2)
     and my haircuts ...


     NB For the "A-G" part above, use the same "G" riff from the intro, and
     an "A" riff, which is exactly the same but (predictably!) up two
     frets.


     Verse 2: (Turn up the distortion!)
     --------

     D      D2 Gsus4  G    D D2 D D2
     Please be ...

            D       D2  Gsus4         G  D D2 D D2
     yes my singing has gone ...

             Asus4        A   Asus4 A           Gsus4     G Gsus4  G
     Oh I've been down in the bin, crawled ....

     (The Asus4/A might well be A/A2, or a combination of all three,
      but with all the distortion, who can tell?!?)


     Bridge:
     -------

     C  G        D    C     G      D
      I say to myself, have I ...

     C    G          D                C                    A
      Cos things are bad ....


     Verse 3:
     --------

     D         G           D  D
     Please be gentle ...

     D            G                   D      D
     backside, is hanging, out ....

             A                            G
     Oh I've been down in the dumps, ...

            A
     And my clothes don't ....

            G               (DDDD D2D2D2 x 2)
     yes my haircuts ....


     Solo (sort of):
     ---------------

        F#m             Bm              F#m             Bm
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
     e---------------------------------------------------------------------
     B--------7-------------------------------7----------------------------
     G------------6-----4-6-4-6-4-6-4-6-----------6-----4-6-4-6-4-6-4-6----
     D--7-------------7-----------------7-------------7--------------------
     A---------------------------------------------------------------------
     E---------------------------------------------------------------------

     Bend each note up a semitone and down again as it's played, and use
     some sort of effect. Alternatively, play it on a keyboard...


     Bridge:
     -------

     C  G        D    C     G      D
      I say to myself, have ....

     C    G          D                C                    A
      Cos things are bad can they ....


     Final part-verse: (different chord sequence)
     -----------------

     D          G           Bm     A           D
     Please, be gentle with....

     Tab to play under above phrase:-

        D               G               Bm              A
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
     e------8-----7---------8-----7---------7-----5---------10----9--------
     B---------------------------------------------------------------------
     G----------------------------------4----------------------------------
     D------------------5-------------------------------7------------------
     A--5------------------------------------------------------------------
     E---------------------------------------------------------------------


     Outro:
     ------

     C          G          (D Dsus4 x 4)
     Please, be ...


     CHORDS:
     -------

             6 5 4 3 2 1
             ===========

     C       x 3 2 0 1 0

     D       x x 0 2 3 2

     D2      x x 0 2 3 0

     Dsus4   x x 0 2 3 3

     A       0 0 2 2 2 0

     A2      0 0 2 2 0 0

     Asus4   0 0 2 2 3 0

     G       3 2 0 0 3 3

     Gsus4   3 2 0 0 1 3

     F#m     2 4 4 2 2 2

     Bm      x 2 4 4 3 2