Cm
Jacqueline was seventeen, working on a desk
G# A#
When Ivor peered above her spectacle
A#7 A#7
Forgot that he had wrecked a girl
Cm G# A#
Sometime these eyes forget the face they’re peering from
A#7 A#7
When the face they peer upon
G Cm
Well you know that face as I do
G#
And how in the return of the gaze
A# Cm
She can return you the face that you’re staring from
Bass arranged for guitar:
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------3-3-3-3------------------|
|-----------------1-1-1-1--------------------------|
|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
x2
Riff 1:
Guitar:
|--------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------4-4-4----------------------------|
|-------------5-5-------5-5------------------------|
|-------5-5-5---------------5-5--------------------|
|-3-3-3--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
x2
Riff 2:
|--------------------------------------------------|
|-8-8-4--6-^(8)--8-8-4--6-^(8)--8-8-4--6~-4-4-3-3--|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
x2
Riff 3:
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------3-5-6-5-3---------------------|
|-3-3-3-6-3-3-3-5-6------------6-5-----------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
x4
Chorus:
Cm Bb G
It’s always better on holiday
Cm D# A
So much better on holiday
Cm Bb G Cm D# A
That’s why we only work when we need the money
x2
Cm
Gregor was down again
G#
Said, ’Come on, kick me again’
A# A#7
Said, ’I’m so drunk I don’t mind if you kill me’
Cm G#
Come on you gutless
A#
Yeah, I’m alive
A#7
I’m alive
G Cm
I’m alive and how I know it
G# A# Cm
But for chips, and for freedom I could die
Riff 2 (x1)
Chorus (x2)
Break:
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|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|-3-------5-6-8------------------------------------|
|-3-------5-6-8------------------------------------|
|-1-------3-4-6------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|-4-x-x--------------------------------------------|
|-5-x-x--3-----------------------------------------|
|-5-x-x--3-----------------------------------------|
|-3-x-x--1-----------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
(work strumming out for tourself, repeat.)
Chorus (x2)
