...SWEET GENE VINCENT... by Ian Dury & The Blockheads
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*from 'New Boots and Panties!' (1977)*
Intro:
(Spoken):
F
Blue Gene baby...
F, Dm (x2)
F
Skinny white sailor,
Dm
The chances were slender,
F Dm
The beauties were brief.
F
Shall I mourn your decline,
Dm
With some thunderbird wine,
F Dm
And a black hankercheif?
F
I miss your sad;
Bb
Virginia whisper.
G7
I miss the voice;
C C+
That called my heart.
Bb Am Dm
Sweet Gene Vincent,
Bb Am Gm
Young and old and gone,
C A7 Dm
Sweet Gene Vincent.
(n.C)
Who, who,
Who slapped John?
Interlude:
(Faster Tempo):
G, D, G
Break:
G (n.C)
White face,
Black shirt,
White socks,
Black shoes,
Black hair,
White strat,
Bled white,
Died black.
Verse 1:
G C G
Sweet Gene Vincent,
C
Let the blue cats,
G D
Roll to-night;
G C
At the sock hop ball,
G C
In the union hall,
G
Where the bop is,
D G
Their de-light.
Verse 2:
G C
Here come duck-tailed Danny,
G
Dragging Uncanny Annie,
C
She's the one with,
G D
The flying feet.
G C
You can break the peace,
G C
Daddy sickle grease,
G D G
The beat is reet com-plete.
Bridge 1:
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/i/ian_dury_and_the_blockheads/sweet_gene_vincent_crd.html ]
C
And you jump back honey,
In the dungerees,
G
Tight sweater and,
G7
A pony tail;
C
Will you guess her age,
When she comes back stage?
A7
The hoodlums bite,
D7 C#7
Their nails.
Solo:
C, G G7
C D7 G
Break:
G (n.C)
Black gloves,
White frost,
Black crepe,
White lead,
White sheet,
Black knight,
Jet black,
Dead white.
Verse 3:
G C G
Sweet Gene Vincent,
C G D
There's one in every town,
G C
And the devil drives,
G C
'Till the hearse ar-rives,
G D G
And you lay that pistol down.
Verse 4:
G C G
Sweet Gene Vincent,
C
There's nowhere,
G D
Left to hide.
G C
With lazy skin,
G C
And ash-tray eyes,
G D G
A perfo-rated pride.
Solo:
D C (x2)
Verse 5:
G C
So farewell ma-demoi-selle,
G
Knicker-bocker hotel,
C G D
Fare-well to money owed.
G C
But when your leg still hurts,
G C
And you need more shirts,
G D G
You got to get back on the road.
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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F Dm Bb G7 C C+ Bb Am
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
133211 xx0231 x13331 323000 x32010 x32110 x13331 x02210
Gm A7 G D D7 C#7
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
355333 x02223 320003 xx0232 xx0212 x46464
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)
