Chords to some songs
 
Fletcher Christian
Millionaire
Hard to be human again
Last dance
Big Zombie
Memphis Egypt
Club Mekon
Amnesia
Echo
As darkness falls
Lyric
100% song

A BIG Thank you to Dan O'Connell for sendinmg me the chords

FLETCHER CHRISTIAN

            D                     G
Sometimes I feel like Fletcher Christian

           D           A
Staring out across the sea

          D            G
Torn apart by duty's shackles

            D      A        D
The twisted tongues of loyalty


                            G
Well I sucked hard on every pleasure

        D             A
Till my head began to spin

               D                  G
He'll choose between the whip and feather

           D     A           D
And that is where his crimes begin


            G                  D
Sometimes I feel like Fletcher Christian

       A                    D
In paradise with the tables turned

                                    G
Yes, and I can feel the tattooist's needle

          D   A           D
I feel my neck and ankles burn


                                   G
Those South Sea isles are cold and barren

               D                  A
But this civil war's been good to me

              D                  G
Well, we took drugs and tore our uniforms

             D      A          D
And gave our captain up to the sea


            G                  D
Sometimes I feel like Fletcher Christian

         A                 D
Twisting off the serpent's head

                               G
For the mutiny, I'll shoot the big one

        D      A         D
Hot and hungry, far from home


                                    G
Through the sun and sea, my skin is peeling

             D                 A
But it don't make the pictures fade

                 D                     G
Those shapes and symbols, I know their meaning

              D     A             D
The shameless riches from another world


                             G
If I return, they're sure to hang me

     D                   A
So I guess, I'll have to stay

                D                   G
And if I should croak out in the darkness

            D   A            D
No one will know I've gone away.

MILLIONAIRE

A                  E
Everybody's so in love
A                        E
But they don't touch or meet
D                           E
Eyes all weeping eyes all red
D                          E
A bunch of flowers in the street
A                E                      D
I love a millionaire, I love a millionaire
D                E                      A
I love a millionaire, I love a millionaire
A                        E
The champagne was never cheap
A                           E
But I could pay someone to drink it for me
D                         E
Never rise up from these sheets
D                         E
Watching time just roll away

[repeat chorus]
A                  E
Stretching out my bones
A                     E
A million miles from home
D
Lust corrodes my body
E
I've lost count of my lovers
D
But I can count my money
E
Forever and forever

[repeat chorus]
A  E  A  E
[instrumental break]
G                                  Em
Dreaming of a creature who is too pale and large to stand
    G                                 C                        D
And only feels the terror on his vain flight from earth
C
Lust corrodes my body
D
I've lost count of my lovers
C
But I can count my money
E
Forever and forever

[repeat chorus]
FEAR AND WHISKEY
HARD TO BE HUMAN
G                /C           /G                  /
Well I made a mistake when I looked over my shoulder
                  /       /C             /D
Cromwell was right behind me in the driving rain
    G             /        /C             /G 
I came out of the bathroom looking for my ticket
      /G        /D           /C     /G
It's hard to be (hard to be) human again

........................................................................................
THE LAST DANCE
     C            F      C     G
The dance floor's nearly empty now
C    F          C
Everyone's gone home
C          F          C     G
We're fragmented and broken up
     C        F       C
Like love affairs

  C       F       C       G
And as I see you for the first time
C          F        C
Something whispered
C       F         C     G
Looking at you in desperation
C        F            C
Knowing nothing ever happens

    Am           G        F
I wanted to say fall in love
    Am           G        F
I wanted to say fall in love with me
    Am           G        F
I wanted to say fall in love
D
   It'll be alright


So beautiful, you were waltzing
Little frozen rivers all covered in snow
All fragmented and broken up
Oh, well, I guess it's time to go

VIOLIN RIFF (as played on guitar)
      C       F          C       G          C       F          C    
e---------------------------------------------------------------------------/
B-----1---3-1-------------------------------1---3-1----------------------/
G--2-----------2---0----0-----2-----------2---------2-----0----0----2----/
D3--------------------3-----3---3-------3--------------------3----3--------/
A---------------------------------------------------------------------------/
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------/
Correction: Last Dance is wrong on the chorus - should be Am G F X3 then D

........................................................................................
The Edge of the World BIG ZOMBIE
        G                   D                  A               D
e-0-1-2-3-33-333-2-1-0-------------------------------------------------/
B---------------------------3-33-333-2-1-0---------------------3-33-333/
G----------------------------------------------2-22-222-1-0-------------/
D------------------------------------------------------------4----------/
A-----------------------------------------------------------------------/
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------/

D
I drove east but I didn't go home
         A                                   D
I just drove out past the false front neon signs
D
Great double trucks rumbling on the coast road
A                      D
I'm just not human tonight

G               
Well they're just restless
G
They're just like you
      D                             A
They want to take the car out and drive somewhere

D
Pardon, merci
     G
Je suis le gran zombie
A                      D
I'm just not human tonight

Bridge:

F                  C                  G
People falling down on their knees

F                               C                     G       A
Watch the night crash down upon their ears.

........................................................................................
         Honky Tonkin PRINCE OF DARKNESS
      C    G                Am
And now he is the prince of darkness
     C         G                     Am
He holds old friends in such high esteem
    C      G            Am               F
He sees a red town and wants it painted black
         C            F          C   
For the Catholic girls  at Halloween


Well he said to me, I've waited seven years
And I am a very patient man
After all those things that you've gone and done
I still need someone to tell

His pleasures were a mystery to us all
You'd never see him out after dawn
In a German seaport town, he takes his coffee in the red light
And now he is the prince of darkness

FILL RIFF - last 6 notes below optional before 1ST, 2ND, 3RD lines
before C chord
  C           G           Am
e-------------------------------------------/
B-------------------------------------------/
G-------------------------------------------/
D-------------------------------------------/
A–3-33--333----------------0-00-0000----0020/
E--------------3-33--333--------------33----/

ALTERNATIVE: C scale fill staring 2 beats earlier than above riff
(this isn't exactly what jon plays live, a couple of notes are
different, but I can't figure them)
   C            G        Am
e---------------------------------------/
B-------------------------------------01/
G-----------------------------------02--/
D--------------------------------023----/
A–3-33--333--------------0-00-003-------/
E---------------3-33--333---------------/

........................................................................................

Mekons Rock n Roll
MEMPHIS, EGYPT
  E
e
0--12--11-9---11-9-7-7---0---12---11-9---11-9-7----7---5---4---2---0----/
B0---------------------------------------------------------------/
G1---------------------------------------------------------------/
D2---------------------------------------------------------------/
A2---------------------------------------------------------------/
E 0---------------------------------------------------------------/

E
Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late
E
The battles we fought were long and hard
                                     B
Just not to be consumed by rock and roll
              E (insert above riff here)
Rock and roll


Capitalismos, favorite boy child, we must apologise,
Up in the rafters a rope is danglin',
Spots before the eyes of rock n' roll...

We know the devil and we have shaken him by the hand,
Embraced him and thought his foul (stinking) breath was fine perfume
Just like rock n' roll...

East berlin can't buy a thing
There's nothing they can sell me,
Walk through the wall no pain at all
I'm born inside the belly of rock n' roll...

It's something to sell your labor for when hair sprouts out below,
The microscope on that secret place where
We all want to go, it's rock n' roll.

........................................................................................
CLUB MEKON

G-G--------------DDDDDDDG-G
G-G--------------DDDDDDDG-G

G         /D       /            /G      /G        /D       /        
/G                 
e------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
B------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
G------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
D--------------0-------0--------------------------------0------0---------------/
A------------2---2--------2-02-0----------------------2---2------2-02-0-------/
E03330333------------------------333-----03330333-----------------------333---/

C        /       /       /           /G          /C       /D    
/G      
e------------------------------------------------------------------------/
B------------------------------------------------------------------------/
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------/
D---------------------------------------------------0-----0--------------/
A-3333----3333----3333----3----3------------------2---2-----2-02-0-------/
E-------------------------------------03330333---------------------333---/

GG              GG                      
When I was just 17               
GG                    CC
Sex no longer held a mystery
GG             DD         
I saw it as a commodity         
      G          C          D        G
To be bought and sold like rock and roll

G          D
Day by day I plunged deeper
                 G   
Into a world of cheap sensation
                      C
This held a great attraction more me
D             G
And I dreamt of  my own club

CCCC                 CCCC
And when I danced,   And saw you dance        
CCCC              C           C
I saw a gambling room in the back
      G                   C
With prostitutes skilled in the art
     D                   G
Of tango lies and exploitation


My club is open to all
The brightest lights you ever saw
The darkest corners for having fun
Happy faces no questions asked

Late one night the club was heaving
I saw a vampire move across the floor
Old and white with a silver cane
Lusting for youth through the mirror

And when i danced and saw you dance
I saw a world where the dead are worshipped
This world belongs to them now they can keep it,

I live alone and I walk the dark edge
Of the shoplights shadow,
In each display a private hell
Name your price you're up for sale.

........................................................................................
AMNESIA
INTRO
e-5-2-0-----5-2-0---/
B--------2----------2/
G---------------------/
D---------------------/
A---------------------/
E---------------------/

BASS RIFF
e---------------------------------------------------/
B---------------------------------------------------/
G---------------------------------------------------/
D-------------------------------------0-2-0-------/
A--------------------------------0-2--------2-0---/
E5-3-0-5--------5-3-0-5----3--------------------/

A                                                                    G
It was a dark and stormy night and the ship was tossing on the open seas
A                                                                          
C
Rolling and tossing and turning in the bunk, the first mate, the bossun
and me
A                                              G
>From Bristol to the Ivory Coast, then on to Jamaica
A                                                                      D
Down in the hold there is no sound, we're bringing rock'n'roll to



(chorus breaks in 1 bar early with last word of verse)
   D

   Bless my soul what's wrong with me
     C
I forgot to forget to remember

The king of England waits in exile in the crack fields of Bolivia
The Burning White House, the Shining Path, back to reconquer Americay
Eric Burden stunned in Mississippi on the Animals US tour
Mardi Gras Indian segregation, 1964

Up the river wah wah throbbing heavy artillary
Blackface painted floodlit jungle gringo military
Any old army high on drugs fighting that rock n' roll war
Truth justice and Led Zeppelin heavy metal marine corps

........................................................................................
ECHO
G (intro)
G                             C
The road up to the past has long be closed
                      G
And what is that path to me now
                          D
And echo that could not keep
C                                G
   A bloody slab, a bricked up door
     
The crystal clearness of that summer morning
Ttwo lines of sulfate sparkled on the glass
The same thing happened with that echo
As with what happened in my heart                             

I'll take a free ride on a wooden horse
That's going round and round and up and down
Don't ask me to give up my Polish dream
I ought to know just who I am

Honey I'm an expert in having fun
But it seems to me like you've just had a wake
I'll sing all night I'm a loaded gun
The rich rise early and the poor sleep late

Right doors won't open but the wrong one's do
Why waste time waiting just walk on through
Take this pill and wash it down
It'll bring out the beast in you

The road up to the past has long been closed
And what is that past to me now
An echo that just could not keep
>From bouncing off a bricked up door
(Multiple repeat on below notes 12,10,8)
           C                     G                    D    
C              G
e15-14-15-12-----------15-14-15-10-----------15-14-15-10-----8-----12-10-12-8
------/
B----------------------------------------------------------------/
G----------------------------------------------------------------/
D----------------------------------------------------------------/
A----------------------------------------------------------------/
E----------------------------------------------------------------/

........................................................................................

AS  DARKNESS  FALLS

     C            F           D       
G                                           
e3-1/-----------0-31-1-1-1-0---------------------/
B---/1----1-3-----------------3-33-31-0---------/
G---/----------------------------------------0------/
D---/------------------------------------------------/
A---/------------------------------------------------/
E---/------------------------------------------------/
     C
Why must you speak so loudly
      G
While I am on your mind
    D                                          
My caution's lost to vengeance
         G
As you snore

     F            E     D
Now I'll cut out your tongue
       E        D   C 
Cause you have said enough
           F              E    D
Watch the blood drip down the wall
              C    
As darkness falls

(With above riff)
C-------------/F-----------/D----------/G-----------
C-------------/F-----------/D----------/G-----------

It took seven days to catch that man
Who's stolen from me twice
Seven hours of questioning and calls

Now i'll cut off your hands 'cos they have gone too far
Watch that ring roll down the hall as darkness falls
  D                               G
see the (little) children outside playing
hear their voices                 sing
flowers in my hair and            pockets
swinging on that                  swing

C
will you take a taxi?
G
will i make you walk?
D                G
we make big decisions every day

i'll chop off your head
your thougts have all turned bad
make you bend and make you crawl as darkness falls

i'll pluck out your eyes
'cos you have seen too much
you know you should be ready when (as) darkness falls


........................................................................................
The Curse of the Mekons
LYRIC
Em   /G   /Am   /C   /G   /D   /Am   /G   /
Em          G 
I said yes, I said no,
Am           C
I said ask again
G                  D    
They've called a snap,
Am               G
last judgment
Em                             G
The weight of this room was impossible to assess
Am                   C
Strange attractors, letter of the alphabet
G                     D
I was shaking like a fruit tree
Am             G
Casting apples to the ground


Em               G            Am
Where do murders go man
G                       D               C
Who's to doom when the judge is up for trial
Em        G      Am
I cannot tell a lie
G         D         C
I cannot tell the truth

100% SONG (live guitar based version)
    EEDD/CC      CC       CC      CCBB AA    AA     AA    EEDD
e-------/--------------------------------------------------------------/
B-------/--------------------------------------------------------------/
G-------/--------------------------------------------------------------/
D-------/--------------------------------------------------------------/
A7-7-5-5/-3-3-----3-3------3-3------3-3-2-2---------------------7-7-5-5/
E-------/-------3--------3--------3-----------5-0—0-5-0—0-5-0—0--------/

  CC    CC      CC       CCBBAA          DD        DD      DD       EEDD
e------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
B------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
G------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
D------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
A3-3----3-3------3-3-----3-3-2-2-5-5------5-5------5-5-----5-5------7-7-5-5/
E------3--------3--------3------------------5--------5--------5--------5----------/
(G can be played in place of B below)
CC            CC           CC        CCBBAA
This is a simulation of a song
    AA             AA            EEDD
are you ashamed or what?
CC       CC          CC        CCBBDD
here is cruelty so strong
    DD          DD   EE DD
cruelty without beauty

in your country you have nothing,  Jesus walking in the garden;
a paradise of violence we'd like to thank him for this song
a paradise of nuffink,  we'd like to thank him for these beers
how come you taste so good? we'd like to thank him for our careers
(thank you Jesus)
a writhin and a moanin, dig him up and ask forgiveness
just like money coming back again         assembled on the ground like a
man
you can't have too much money, he's the monster from Loch Ness
no you can't have too much money in a halo and a dress

F
people working all day long the wind and water are singing
G where the naked are tied
now they're going out from tip to toe
F stroking delicate skin
to join us all in our song
G
for the industry of night

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