English Boy tab by Pete Townshend

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English Boy | guitar tab
By Pete Townshend
>From Psychoderelict, 1993
Written by Pete Townshend (c)1993 Towser Tunes Inc./Eel Pie Publishing Ltd.





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transcribed by               Whotabs
[email protected]     1998-07-22     www.thewho.net/whotabs
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[note: use non-dialogue or 'Best of PT' version]

Capo on 3 [dropped 'D' tuning: FCFBbDG with capo]

FF   (3)(3)3565
Bb majorBb   x53366
C majorC    x3555x
C#7sus2 xxx 13 12 10
D7sus2 xxx 14 13 11
E7E7   xx 12 13 12 x
F7F7   xx 13 14 13 x
Bb majorBb   xx3366 (bridge)
Bbmaj7Bbmaj7 xx3365
Ebadd9Ebadd9 x63363

[intro]
 F5F5 F/Ab F5F5
|---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
|---------6-----------|---------6-----------|---------6-----------|
|---------5-----------|-5-------5-----------|-5-------5-----------|
|-3-------3-----------|-3-------3-----------|-3-------3-----------|
|-3-------3-----------|-3-------------------|-3-------3------0-3--|
|-3-3-6^--------------|-3-3-6^--------------|-3-3-6^--------------|

|---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
|---------6-----------|---------6-----------|---------6-----------|
|-5-------5-----------|-5-------5-------3---|-5-------5-----------|
|-3-------3---3/0/3/0~|-3-------3------3--6~|-3-------3------3-6-6|
|-3-------3-----------|-3-------3---3h6-----|-3-------3---3h6-----|
|-3-3-6^--------------|-3-3-6^--------------|-3-3-6^--------------|

|---------------------|---------------------|---------|--------------|
|---------6-----------|---------------------|---------|--------------|
|-5-------5--------3--|---------------------|---------|--------------|
|-3-------3------3---6|-6/8-6p3-6p3---3-----|---------|--------------|
|-3-------3---3h6-----|-------------6--6-3--|---------|--------------|
|-3-3-6^--------------|--------------------6|-3---5-7-|-8-10--10-12--|

|-------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|--------------|
|-13-12----10--7----|-8--10--5^-3--|

[chorus]
    FF     Bb majorBb Bb C majorC
I'm an English boy
I was brought up right
Hold me down and I will bite
I know no fear, I serve with joy
I'm proud to be here, an English boy

[verse]
 C#7sus2        D7sus2 E7E7           F7F7
I feel like a stray dog    Blurred like a movie
        C#7sus2     D7sus2      E7E7          F7F7
You say you've come to arrest me   But you're just trying to test me

I'm bored with your prejudice spreading like a fever
Your promises to train me are just attempts to restrain me

[repeat chorus]
I am an English boy, precisely made
You can pin me down, I am not afraid
I show no fear, I will serve with joy
I'm proud to be here, an English boy

[repeat verse]
Use me like a headline, cut pieces to pieces
I'm black on the tube line, red on the touch-line
Freezing up a future, stopping every stopwatch
You say we're moving like an oilslick, thicker than a housebrick

[bridge]
    FF    Ebadd9Ebadd9  Bb majorBb     Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
I'm an English boy, I was brought up right
If you raise your dress, then I will bite
My voice is clear, I got perfect poise
    FF    Ebadd9Ebadd9      Bb majorBb   Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
Good to be down here with all the English boys

Eb/BbEb/Bb       Bb majorBb        F/Bb       Bb majorBb
 And I don't know where I am know or where I'm gonna go
       Cm7/Ab             Bb majorBb
I keep going round and round on the Circle Line
               FF           Bb majorBb
Like some demented kind of commuter trying to avoid paying for my ticket
Eb/FEb/F  C majorC     FF              C majorC
 I'm a lost soul, I read about myself in the newspapers
   F/CF/C    C majorC       C majorC         F5F5
I'm a pig, I'm a thug, I've got nowhere to go but down

[repeat intro]

[repeat verse]
Feel like I'm kicking at a dead man, kicking in the chorus
I'm broken by hatred, while politicians just ignore us
You never gave me any value, you didn't give me any reason
There's no tools and no toys for any English boys

[repeat chorus]
I'm an English boy, I was brought up right
Hold me down and I will bite
I know no fear, I will serve with joy
I'm proud to be here, an English boy, yeah...

[outro]
    FF    Ebadd9Ebadd9  Bb majorBb   Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
I'm an English boy, yeah...
No tools, no toys for any English boys

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