Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking Album chords by Roger Waters

Chords with lyrics

This is a great album, but before you start, you must learn this:

  C majorC     A minorAm         C/BC/B
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B-------------------------------------|
G-------------------------------------|
D------0h2------0h2------0h2----------|
A--3---------0--------0--------0-2----|
E-------------------------------------|
this is basically the main riff of the album,
(sometimes played with variations, such as one more A minorAm bar)
it occurs in almost all of the songs (during the C/Am parts)
You should also kinda strum C majorC and A minorAm while playing this...
This riff will be signified by a *********************\/
at the beginning and ************/\ ending of the riff

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4:30 (Apparently They Were Running Abroad)
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C majorC  FF   C majorC  FF  C majorC  DmDm  E minorEm  G+G  G+G+  A minorAm

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A minorAm    C majorC          A minorAm
We were moving away from the border
 C majorC             A minorAm
Looking for somewhere to sleep
   C majorC           A minorAm
The two of us sharing the driving
   C majorC             A minorAm
Two hitchhikers slumped in the back seat
    Hello
  C majorC             A minorAm
I sneaked a quick look in the mirror
She gave me a smile
  C majorC         A minorAm
  I said "Is anyone hungry?
 C majorC               A minorAm
  Should we stop for a while?"
C majorC   A minorAm           A minorAm
So we pulled off into a layby
   C majorC           A minorAm
Her dress blew up over her head
C majorC             A minorAm
I said "Would you like to come with me?"
     C majorC                  A minorAm
She said  something foreign under her breath
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     FF           C majorC
And the sun shone down on her lovely young limbs
  FF              C majorC
I thought to myself she's much too good for him
  FF            C majorC      FF
I lay down beside her with tears in my eyes
      G+G FF *C A minorAm *G FF C majorC C/B...
She said

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4:33 (Running Shoes)
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A minorAm
  So I stood by the roadside
       (G+G) FF
The soles of my running shoes gripping the tarmac
     (G+G)  A minorAm   (G+G)   FF  (G+G)
Like gunmetal magnets
 A minorAm
Fixed on the front of her Fassbinder face
   (G+G) FF
Was the kind of a smile
          (G+G) A minorAm
That only a rather dull child could have drawn
               (G+G)   FF     (G+G)
While attempting a graveyard in the moonlight
 A minorAm
But she was impressed
                  (G+G) FF
You could see that she thought I looked fine
(G+G) A minorAm
And when she turned sweeter
             (G+G) FF
The reason (between you and me) was
               (G+G) A minorAm    FF
She'd just seen my green Lamborghini

(You can play a barre-chord G+G in the middle of A minorAm and FF
and visa-versa to link them together)
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A minorAm      C majorC           A minorAm
    So we went for a spin in the country
  C majorC          A minorAm
To feel the wind in our hair
  C majorC          A minorAm
To feel the power of my engine
  C majorC          A minorAm
To feel the thrill of desire
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C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm FF C majorC FF C majorC G+G FF (C majorC)

   FF         C majorC
And then in the trees I heard a twig snap
 FF              C majorC
Warning lights flashed on my map
 FF          C majorC
I opened my eyes and to my surprise

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4:37 (Arabs With Knives And West German Skies)
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      G+G      C majorC
There were Arabs with Knives
    FF      A minorAm
At the foot of the bed
 G+G      FF      C majorC
Right at the foot of the bed
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    C majorC          A minorAm
Oh my God how did they get in here?
   C majorC             A minorAm
I thought we were safe home in England
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      FF            C majorC       FF
She said "Come on now kid, it was wrong what you did
    G+G    FF      C majorC       A minorAm
You've got to admit it was wrong what you did
   G+G    FF      C majorC
You got to admit it was wrong"
    Oh god....Jesus
  C majorC
Sleep Sleep
            G+G
I know that I'm only dreaming
Leave her alone..get out..out..get out of my house
  C majorC
Through closed eyes
                 G+G
I see West German skies on the ceiling
    FF
And I want to get back to the girl with the rucksack
   C majorC
To feel her flaxen hair
        G+G
I want to be there
     FF
See the sun going down behind Krupps steelworks
C majorC           G+G
 On the outskirts of some German town
 C majorC
Guten Abend meiner Damen und Herren Ha Ha Ha Ha
G7G7
Willkommen in Konnigsburg Ha Ha Ha Ha
C majorC
 Wollen zie danzen mit mir oder drinken Bier Ha Ha Ha Ha
G7G7
   Thank you but......
 F#F#     FF
This young lady and I
                 C majorC  C7C7   G+G
Will just finish this bottle of wine
    FF
It was kind of you...but
              C majorC
I think we'll just say goodnight
    Leave us alone

Goodnight
    "Leave us alone
   C majorC
    Could I have the key to one four three please?
   FF
    There you are
    Thank you, goodnight

   C majorC     FF     C majorC

     DmDm
    Hello yes I'd like to order breakfast please
         E minorEm
    I'd like coffee for two, and toast with marmalade
  G+G           G+G+
    No...marmalade.

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4:39 (For The First Time Today Part 2)
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    C majorC
For the first time today
  FF       G+G      C majorC
I held her naked body next to mine
      FF    A minorAm      Dm7Dm7
In this hotel overlooking the Rhine
G+G       G+G+
 I made her mine
A minorAm      G+G     C majorC  FF A minorAm DmDm
 Ooh babe...ooh babe
 G+G         G+G+      A minorAm
Come with me and stay with me
 FF   A minorAm
Please stay with me
    Uh...what is it?
FF
 Stay with me
 A minorAm        FF
Stay with me
 C majorC        FF
Stay with me
    No...
A minorAm         FF     A minorAm     FF
  Stay with me

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4:41 (Sexual Revolution)
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E minorEm
  Hey, girl take out the dagger
               C majorC   D MajorD   E minorEm
And let's have a stab at the sexual  revolution
E minorEm
Hey girl let freedom for all be our rallying call
  C majorC           D MajorD    E minorEm
Tomorrow lets make...our new resolution
       C majorC     D MajorD
Yeah, but tonight lie still
     G+G   D MajorD      E minorEm
While I plunder your sweet grave
    C majorC   D MajorD          E minorEm
And remember only the poor can be saved

E minorEm
Hey girl as I've always said I prefer your lips red
  C majorC            D MajorD        E minorEm
Not what the good Lord made  but what he intended
E minorEm
Hey girl don't point the finger at me
      C majorC           D MajorD       E minorEm
I am only a rat in a maze like you and only the dead go free
  C majorC       D MajorD
So please hold my hand
    G+G    D MajorD     E minorEm
As we blunder through the maze
   C majorC    D MajorD            E minorEm
And remember nothing can grow without rain
    (Thunder)

(E minorEm C majorC E minorEm C majorC E minorEm C majorC E minorEm C majorC)

Em........... C.... E minorEm  C majorC D MajorD G+G D MajorD E minorEm

C majorC    D MajorD    E minorEm
Don't point your finger at me

G+G  G/F#    E minorEm
 I awoke in a fever
   G+G       G/F#       E minorEm
The bedclothes were all soaked in sweat
   G+G        G/F#   E minorEm
She said "You've been having a nightmare
G+G     G/F#   E minorEm
 And it's not over yet"
     C majorC             D MajorD
Then she picked up the doggy in the window
   G+G      G/F#  E minorEm
(The one with the waggly tail)
     C majorC       D MajorD          E minorEm
And she put him to bed between two bits of bread

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4:47 (The Remains Of Our Love)
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G+G     G/F#      E minorEm
 I just cowered in the corner
   G+G     G/F#  E minorEm
My pyjama coat over my head
     G+G       G/F#    E minorEm
And she smiled as she finished her sandwich

G+G    G/F#   E minorEm

     FF            C majorC      FF
And her cold eyes fixed me to my dark history
     G+G
As she brushed the remains
    FF       C majorC
Of our love from the bed
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   C majorC              A minorAm
And when she had turned back the covers
   C majorC              A minorAm
When all of the prayers had been read
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      FF
She said "Come on over here you silly boy
      FF
Before you catch your death of cold
      C majorC
I was only joking
    FF
Let's leave behind the city grime
       FF
Let's not compete
             C majorC
It could be fine in the country
 G+G            FF
Couldn't it though...come on lets go
    C majorC     FF    C majorC    F...
I said "OK"

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4:50 (Go FIshing)
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  G+G
To reach for the pie in the sky
             C minorCm
Go fishing my boy!

  Bsus4Bsus4 BB CdimCdim Bsus4Bsus4 BB E minorEm C majorC D MajorD

   Bsus4Bsus4
We set out in the spring
                 D MajorD
With a trunk full of books about everything
   Bsus4Bsus4
About solar devices
            D MajorD
And how nice natural childbirth is
  CdimCdim
We cut down some trees

And we trailed our ideals
      Bsus4Bsus4     BB
Through the forest glade
  CdimCdim
We dammed up the stream

And the kids cooled their heels
    Bsus4Bsus4           BB
In the fishing pool we'd made
E minorEm          Em/DEm/D
 We held hands and we exchanged bands
     C majorC            D MajorD
And we practically lived off the land
   Bsus4Bsus4
You adopted a fox cub
               D MajorD
Whose mother was somebody's coat
  Bsus4Bsus4
You fed him by hand

And then snuggled him down
     D MajorD
In the grandfather bed while I wrote
  CdimCdim
We grew our own maize
            Bsus4Bsus4
And I only occasionally went into town
  CdimCdim
To stock up on antibiotics
          Bsus4Bsus4        BB
And shells for the shotgun that I kept around
  E minorEm            Em/DEm/D
I told the kids stories while you worked your loom
     C majorC             D MajorD
And the sun went down sooner each day.
   G+G
    *Chapter six in which Eeyore has a birthday
     C majorC
    And gets two presents
       D MajorD  G+G
    Daddy...come on dad

    Eeyore the old grey donkey stood by the side
         C majorC
    Of the stream and he looked at himself in the water
                D MajorD
    "Pathetic" he said, "That's what it is"
Bsus4Bsus4 BB  D MajorD
    "Good morning Eeyore" said Pooh
CdimCdim  Bsus4Bsus4                   BB
    "Oh" said Pooh, He thought for a long time

     Bsus4Bsus4
Then the leaves all fell down

Our crops all turned brown
    D MajorD
It was over
    Bsus4Bsus4
As the first snowflakes fell
            D MajorD
I realized all was not well in the camp
  CdimCdim
The kids caught bronchitis
              Bsus4Bsus4  BB
The space heater ran out of diesel
   CdimCdim
One weekend a friend from the East,
             Bsus4Bsus4 BB
Rot his soul, stole your heart
    E minorEm
I said  "**** it then
     Em/DEm/D
Take the kids back to town
 C majorC          D MajorD
Maybe I'll see you around"

 G+G   C majorC  D MajorD G+G Am7Am7 G+G C majorC G/BG/B

Am7Am7      G+G
  And so...leaving all our hopes and dreams
    C majorC      Am7Am7   D MajorD
To the wind and the rain
    G+G
Taking only our stash
     Am7Am7     G+G
Left our litter and trash
   C majorC
And set out on the road again
G/BG/B    Am7Am7  G+G
  On the road again
             C majorC
  On the road again
      D MajorD G+G  E minorEm
  On the road
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4:56 (For The First Time Today Part 1)
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     A minorAm
For the first time today
  FF        G+G    C majorC
I feel it's really over
      FF      DmDm
You were my everyday excuse
      G+G         G+G+
For playing  deaf, dumb and blind
A minorAm
 Who'd have ever thought
 FF          G+G        C majorC
This was how it would end for you and me
      FF     DmDm
To carry my own millstone
       G+G     G+G+
Out of the trees
A minorAm
  And I have to admit

I don't like it a bit
         FF      A minorAm
Being left here beside this lonesome road.
D/F#D/F#
  Lonesome road
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4:58 Dunroamin Duncarin Dunlivin
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C majorC            A minorAm
 I nailed ducks to the wall
G+G C majorC            A minorAm
  Kept my heart in dark ruins
  G+G   C majorC           A minorAm
I built bungalows all over the hills
 G+G C majorC          A minorAm
Dunroamin, duncarin, dunlivin
G+G C majorC           A minorAm
  Took my girl to the country
G+G   C majorC         A minorAm
To sleep out under the moon
 C majorC           A minorAm
Next thing she's going crazy
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G+G  C majorC           A minorAm
She waits for the real Mr. Right to come
G+G  C majorC          A minorAm
  Gently removing her heart
      FF            G+G
With his promises of real communication
F#F#  FF
Who's always picking up the tab
                   C majorC
Who built a bungalow for his mum and dad
   FF
Who took you out to all the shows
                C majorC
Who worked his fingers to the bone
         G+G
While you were asleep
           F#F#  FF
I kept you in buttons and bows
               C majorC
So you could encourage this creep
 F#F#   FF
With his  neat feet
      C majorC
And his clean fingernails
 F#F#    FF         C majorC
With his wise but twinkling eyes
    FF           C majorC
He's a rock standing out in an ocean of doubt
FF       G+G
And compromise
F#F#  FF            C majorC
I'd like to go on with this bit of a song
FF           C majorC
 Describing this schmuck
   FF      G+G            C majorC
I'd like to go on, but I'm going to throw up
                            A minorAm
[Not in my rig you don't boy...get the hell out of here]

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5:01 The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking
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Intro: A augmentedA G+G C majorC A minorAm D MajorD G+G

  DmDm
An angel on a Harley
                     A minorAm
Pulls across to greet a fellow rolling stone
     DmDm
Puts his bike up on it's stand

Leans back and then extends
           A minorAm
A augmentedA scarred and greasy hand...he said
G+G                        C majorC   A minorAm
 How ya doin bro?...where ya been?...where ya goin'?
     D MajorD
Then he takes your hand

In some strange Californian handshake
        G+G
And breaks the bone
  DmDm
A augmentedA housewife from Encino

Whose husband's on the golf course
     A minorAm
With his book of rules
 DmDm
Breaks and makes a 'U' and idles back
             A minorAm
To take a second look at you
G+G
You flex your rod
        C majorC     A minorAm
Fish takes the hook
    D MajorD
Sweet vodka and tobacco in her breath
G+G
 Another number in your little black book

C majorC                E minorEm
 These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
C majorC                 E minorEm
 These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
D MajorD           G+G
 Oh babe, I must be dreaming
   DmDm
I'm standing on the leading edge
                   A minorAm
The Eastern seaboard spread before my eyes
 DmDm
"Jump" says Yoko Ono
                     A minorAm
"I'm too scared and too good looking" I cried
 G+G
"Go on", she says
             C majorC    A minorAm
"Why don't you give it a try?
 D MajorD                 G+G
Why prolong the agony all men must die"

DmDm A minorAm DmDm A minorAm C majorC C/BC/B A minorAm G+G

DmDm
 Do you remember Dick Tracy?
         A minorAm
Do you remember Shane?

And mother wants you
      DmDm
Could you see him selling tickets
                 A minorAm
Where the buzzard circles over [Shane]

The body on the plain
    G+G
Did you understand the music Yoko
         C majorC       A minorAm
Or was it all in vain? [Shane]
   D MajorD
The ***** said something mystical "Herro"
    G+G
So I stepped back on the kerb again
C majorC                 E minorEm
 These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
C majorC                 E minorEm
 These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
D MajorD           G+G
 Oh babe, I must be dreaming again
C majorC                 E minorEm (repeat and fade)
 These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking

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5:06 (Every Stranger's Eyes)
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 C majorC
 Hello...you wanna cup of coffee?
    DmDm
 I'm sorry, would you like a cup of coffee?
        G+G
 Ok you take cream and sugar?
   C majorC
In truck stops and hamburger joints

In Cadillac limousines
          DmDm
In the company of has-beens
        G+G
And bent-backs  and sleeping forms

On pavement steps
  C majorC
In libraries and railway stations

In books and banks
DmDm
 In the pages of history
  G+G
In suicidal cavalry attacks
        C majorC C/BC/B A minorAm
I recognise...
FF      G+G         C majorC
 Myself in every stranger's eyes

     C majorC
And in wheelchairs by monuments

Under tube trains and commuter accidents
DmDm
  In council care and county courts
G+G
 At Easter fairs and sea-side resorts
   C majorC
In drawing rooms and city morgues

In award winning photographs

Of life rafts in the China seas
   DmDm
In transit camps, under arc lamps

On unloading ramps
G+G
 In faces blurred by rubber stamps
       C majorC C/BC/B A minorAm
I recognise...
FF      G+G        C majorC
 Myself in every stranger's eyes

   C majorC      C/BC/B A minorAm
And now from where I stand
     DmDm             G+G
Upon this hill I plundered from the pool
     C majorC        C/BC/B A minorAm
I look around, I search the skies
      DmDm        G+G
I shade my eyes, so nearly blind
      C majorC       C/BC/B    A minorAm
And I see signs of half remembered days
       G+G   FF      DmDm        G+G
I hear bells that chime  in strange familiar ways
    C majorC C/BC/B A minorAm
I recognai----ise...
FF        G+G        C majorC  FF
 The hope you kindle in your eyes

C majorC FF G+G C majorC A minorAm DmDm G+G

C majorC
Its oh so easy now
    FF        G+G
As we lie here in the dark
    E minorEm
Nothing interferes it's obvious
    A minorAm
How to beat the tears
    DmDm
That threaten to snuff out
   G+G      C majorC
The spark of our love
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5:11 (Moment Of Clarity)
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     C majorC
And the moment of clarity
          A minorAm
Faded like charity does
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A minorAm
And sometimes

  FF            C majorC
I put out my hand just to touch your soft hair
     FF             C majorC
To make sure in the darkness that you were still there
    FF
And I have to admit
  C majorC     A minorAm    G+G  FF    C majorC
I was just a little afraid,   oh yeah
   A minorAm
But then...
  FF
I had a little bit of luck

You were awake
                 C majorC