heliocentric@breathe.com
February 4th 2001. 1.36pm
SON OF A GUN by THE LA'S
Written by Lee Mavers
From the album 'The La's' (Go! Discs, 1990)
Chords used:
Standard tuning (EADGBe)
C: x32010
Bb: x1333x
F: 133211
Or alternatively you could tune your guitar down a tone to
DGCFAd
and use these shapes:
C: xx0232
Bb x32033 (Bbadd9)
F: 320033
C Bb (x4)
C Bb C
If you want
Bb C Bb C
I'll sell you a life story
Bb C Bb C Bb C Bb C
About a man who's a loggerheads with his past all the time
Bb C Bb C
He's alive
Bb C Bb C Bb
and living in purgatory
C Bb C
All he's doing is rooming in hotels
Bb C Bb C
And scooping up lots of wine
F Bb C Bb
There was once a boy of life
F Bb C Bb
Who lived upon the knife
F Bb C Bb
He took his share of everywhere
F Bb C
But he never took a wife...
Bb C Bb C
He was born
Bb C Bb C Bb
To live like a mercenary
C Bb C Bb
Well personally I think that's fine
C Bb C
If you're in the right mind
Bb C Bb C Bb C Bb C Bb
He was bur - ned by the twentieth century
C Bb C Bb
Now he's doing time in the back of his mind
C Bb
He can hear them outside
F Bb C Bb
Better run, rabbit run
F Bb C Bb
Run into the sun
F Bb C Bb
Kick your heels in the killing fields
F Bb C
Run rabbit run
Bb C Bb
You're the son of a gun
C Bb (x8)
He was born to live like a mercenary
Well personally I think that's fine
If you're in the right mind.
F
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