It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career Chords & Tabs
It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career Chords
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It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career – Belle and Sebastian
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Belle and Sebastian
It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career (1998)
From: "The Boy With the Arab Strap"
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SPECIAL VOICINGS
E-A-D-G-B-E
B/D# x-6-4-4-4-x
A/E x-x-2-2-2-x
[ch]F#/E[/ch] x-x-2-3-2-2
E/G# 4-x-2-1-0-0
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E A
A stroke at the age of 24
A E
It could have been a brilliant career
C#m B A
Painting lines in a school that was too well known
C#m B/D# A/E
Painting lines with a friend that had gone before
[ch]F#/E[/ch] B
She challenged everyone to a fight
A E/G# B
But the prefects all backed down
A E/G# B
And they ran her out of town
A E/G# B
Cause she drank and swore and spoke
A E/G# F#
Out of turn, she was the village joke
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E A
She had a stroke at the age of 24
A E
It could have been a brilliant career
C#m B A
Getting clients to finance her strategies
C#m B/D# A/E
Filling time in on Safeways on Saturday
[ch]F#/E[/ch] B
She wears the clothes of an emperor
A E/G# B
But her paintings are a sham
A E/G# B
And they're going for a grand
A E/G# B
When the dealers come to view
A E/G# [F#]
Do they ever see the real you?
SOLO
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| F# | % | % | % |
E F#m
He had a stroke at the age of 24
A E
It could have been a brilliant career
C#m B A
Selling lies to the boys with the old Dansettes
C#m B/D# A/E
Pulling the wool, playing the fool, it's no wonder that
[ch]F#/E[/ch] B
He is dribbling spit tonight
A E/G# B
And the one he sent away
A E/G# B
Was the only one who stayed
A E/G# B
With a spoon and a decent book
A E/G# B
And you can tell by the way she looks
A E/G# B
He is sorry and resigned
A E/G# F#
As he wets himself for the final time