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The Guteratti? - The Fratellis
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Tabbed by: Richard Freed
Email: freenrich@hotmail.com
Tuning: Standard
I was at a fratellis gig earlier today at the ABC in Glasgow. Awesome show, and I was
at the front so I managed to pick up most of the chords of this song!
Played using 3 simple open chords
Chords Used:
D - X00232
G - 320003
A - 002220
Intro: D G D D A D x2
Verse:
D G D
Well I was chasing down flies and shooting up women
D A D
Trying to get the whole thing straight in my head
D G D
Lookin for a girl who’d come with me swimming
D A D
And come and play tunes at the end of my bed
D G D D A D x2
D G D
And all the hardmen were drinkin down petrol
D A D
Bamming up the girls when in came the law
D G D
Heading for the door and getting tongue tied
D A D
When they asked me what exactly I saw
Chorus:
D G
So I’ll get some Monte Christo’s
D A
And we can all go see the band
D G
Well I may not be a looker yeah
D A D A D
But I’ll help you any way I can
D G D D A D x2
Verse:
D G D
Back at my room I was making me nervous
D A D
Watching TV and picking my feet
D G D
Wishing I was pretty and burning my shoes
D A D
And wishing for once I’d kept the receipt
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D G D
I called myself and wondered out loud
D A D
Tried to get the whole thing straight in my head
D G D
I left the tape running and played it back twice
D A D
But I couldn’t make sense of what I had said
Chorus:
D G
So I’ll get some Monte Christo’s
D A
And we can all go see the band
D G
Well I may not be a looker yeah
D A D A D
But I’ll help you any way I can
(play chorus chords again at Harmonica interlude)
D G D A D G D
D A D
Verse:
G
Well it may not make you handsome
G D
And it may not even make you feel aliiiiiiive
G
You may not have the ransom
G
But you can always count on this
A
It’s him and them and she and me
And sick and muddy, everybody
D G D D A D x2
Chorus:
D G
So I’ll get some Monte Christo’s
D A
And we can all go see the band
D G
Well I may not be a looker yeah
D A D A D
But I’ll help you any way I can
D G
So you can bring your wasters banjo
D A
Bring yer sister and her friend Diane
D G
Well I may not have a big boys pistol
D A D A D
But I’ll help them any way I can
D G
And you can call me Cinderella!
D A
You can make me your best man
D G
Well you may be a right old queen
D A D A D
But I’ll help you any way I can
(play chorus chords again at Harmonica outro)
D G D A D G D
D A D
Comments welcome.
