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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 19:00:29 +0000
From: Nic.Boulton@cw.mercury.co.uk


/b/Billy_Bragg/Walk_away_Renee(version).tab

>From the other side of the Levi Stubbs'Tears single


Here's BB's poem of young love. Can't really imagine playing this one at
a party, but the melody's really sweet.


[intro]:

D(x5777x)

Dmaj7(x5767x)

Bm7/F# (xx4542)
      She said it was just a figment of speech

  F(133211)
& I said "you mean figure" and she said "no, figment"
                          Dmaj7
because she could never imagine it happening, but it did.....


[verses] :

   A              E             G             D
e -------------0--0-------------------------------------------|
B (2)----2--3-----0----3-2-0-----------0-2-3--3-------------3-|
G -2--------------1---------------------------2---(2)-----2---|
D -2--------------2---------------------------0-----(0)-------|
A -0--------------2-----------0h2-----------------------------|
E ----------------0---------------3---------------------------|
1. -                             when    met played shy boy
2. -                              but l.is   got crunchy smooth sps
3. I confronted  it, I sd illegible       yeah      silly letters
4. -                       [fade out]


   C             A              B
e --------------------------------------------------------------|
B -----------0h1-2--0-------------------------------------------|
G ---------2-----2----2\1--------4----4h6-4------4-h-6----------|
D ---------------2--------2/4------4-(4)-(4)--------------------|
A -0-3-----------0----------------------------------------------|
E --------------------------------------------------------------|
1. when s spoke time    to bleed  guess rest            next ferry
2. -             began   mr.potatohead        it was when  car park
3. -                     & then 1 day  hair loving her


     A          A                       D       C#m E
e ------------4-5-4------------------------------------------|
B --------5-7-------7-------------------3---3-3--2--0--------|
G --------------------6-----------------2---2-2--1--1----1---|
D --------------------------(0)---------0---0-0--2--2---2----|
A ----0---------(0)-------(0)------(0)--------------2--2---0-|
E --0----------------------------(3)-------------------------|
1.      & when  fares special          I couldn't  her
2.      with coat shoulders           home    2 of     bath
3. -


A          A              D       C#m E      D   D/C#      A
e ------------4-5-4-------------------------------------------0-|
B --------5-7-------7-----3---3-3--2--0--------3----3---------2-|
G --------------------6---2---2-2--1--1----1--2----2----------2-|
D ------------------------0---0-0--2--2---2--0------------------|
A --------------(0)-------------------2--2-------4----2h4--0----|
E --------------------------------------------------------------|
1. radio s.body else 2 us   just being      sort        scary off
2.     around    eyes   breasts  point met [strumD(5),C#m(4),Bm(2)]
3. -



Those lyrics in full :


She said it was just a figment of speech
& I said "you mean figure" and she said "no, figment"
because she could never imagine it happening, but it did.....


1.
When we first met I played the shy boy
and when she spoke to me for the first time
my nose began to bleed
she guessed the rest

the next day we went on a bus ride to the ferry
and when nobody came to collect our fares
well I knew then this was something special

I couldn't stop thinking about her and every time I switched on the radio
there was someone else singing a song about the two of us

it was just like being on a fast ride at the funfair
the sort you wanna get off because its scary
and then as soon as you're off, you wanna get straight back on again


2.
but, oh, love is strange
and you have to learn to take the crunchy with the smooth I s'pose
she began going out with Mr.Potatohead

It was when I saw her in the car park with his coat around her shoulders
that I realised

I went home and thought about the two of them together until the bath
water went cold around me

I thought about her eyes and the curve of her breasts and about the point
where their bodies met


3.
I confronted her about it,
I said "I'm the most illegible bachelor in town"
and she said "yeah that's why I can never understand any of those silly
letters you send me"

and then one day it happened, she cut her hair and I stopped loving her



chords :

EADGBe

x5777x - D       )
x5767x - Dmaj7   ) intro, - not too sure about these
xx4252 - Bm7/F#  )

x02220 - A
022100 - E
320003 - G
xx0232 - D
x02120 - C#m

x57775 - D(5)    )
x46654 - C#m(4)  ) end 2nd verse
x24432 - Bm(2)   )



h is a hammer on
/ is a slide up
\ is a slide down

improvements welcome.....


Nic.Boulton@cw.mercury.co.uk