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Tab6
Bass2
This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.
Chords
A |x77655
A# |x88766
A#7|x86766
Cm |x35543
D# |x6888x
G |x55433
G# |x66544
Verse
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) (x2)
e|--------------------------------------------------| B|--------------------------------------------------| G|-------------------------3-3-3-3------------------| D|-----------------1-1-1-1--------------------------| A|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3----------------------------------| E|--------------------------------------------------|
Riff 1
(Guitar) (x2)
e|--------------------------------------------------| B|-----------------4-4-4----------------------------| G|-------------5-5-------5-5------------------------| D|-------5-5-5---------------5-5--------------------| A|-3-3-3--------------------------------------------| E|--------------------------------------------------|
[Riff 2] (x2)
e|--------------------------------------------------| B|-8-8-4--6-^(8)--8-8-4--6-^(8)--8-8-4--6~-4-4-3-3--| G|--------------------------------------------------| D|--------------------------------------------------| A|--------------------------------------------------| E|--------------------------------------------------|
[Riff 3] (x4)
e|--------------------------------------------------| B|--------------------------------------------------| G|--------------------------------------------------| D|--------------------3-5-6-5-3---------------------| A|-3-3-3-6-3-3-3-5-6------------6-5-----------------| E|--------------------------------------------------|
[Chorus] (x2)
Cm A# G
It's always better on holiday
Cm D# A
So much better on holiday
Cm A# G Cm D# A
That's why we only work when we need the money
Verse
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
e|--------------------------------------------------| B|-8-8-4--6-^(8)--8-8-4--6-^(8)--8-8-4--6~-4-4-3-3--| G|--------------------------------------------------| D|--------------------------------------------------| A|--------------------------------------------------| E|--------------------------------------------------|
[Chorus] (x2)
Cm A# G
It's always better on holiday
Cm D# A
So much better on holiday
Cm A# G Cm D# A
That's why we only work when we need the money
Break
e|--------------------------------------------------| B|--------------------------------------------------| G|--------------------------------------------------| D|-3-------5-6-8------------------------------------| A|-3-------5-6-8------------------------------------| E|-1-------3-4-6------------------------------------| e|--------------------------------------------------| B|-4-x-x--------------------------------------------| G|-5-x-x--3-----------------------------------------| D|-5-x-x--3-----------------------------------------| A|-3-x-x--1-----------------------------------------| E|--------------------------------------------------|
(work strumming out for tourself, repeat.)
[Chorus] (x2)
Cm A# G
It's always better on holiday
Cm D# A
So much better on holiday
Cm A# G Cm D# A
That's why we only work when we need the money
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| ~ Vibrato
| x Dead note
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