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Date: 19-04-02
The Stereophonics
Handbags and Gladrags
by Russell Reading
Based loosely on a tab originally transcribed by Ian McAllister


This is the "easy to play" version, as the "correct"
version has Capo on 3rd fret and uses G, G7, C and C/D
but sounds essentially the same, (probably).

All you need is the progression A A7 D E  with two strums
on each, (then getting fancy oncy you have it down).

Capo on 1st

Intro: A A7 D E  x 3

A              A7               D
Ever see a blind man cross the road
 E                        A  A7  D  E
Trying to make the other side
A              A7               D
Ever see a young girl growing old
 E                        A   A7   D  E
Trying to make herself a bride

F#                  E
So what becomes of you my love
A                                   B
When they have finally stripped you of

D
The handbags and the gladrags
            E                                A
That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you

E
A              A7     D
Once I was a young man
 E                                A  A7  D  E
And all I thought I had to do was smile
A              A7            D
Well you are still a young girl
 E                                A  A7  D  E
And you bought everything in style

F#                       E
So once you think you're in you're out
A                                     B
'Cos you don't mean a single thing without

D
The handbags and the gladrags
            E                                A
That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you

E

A                A7                  D
Sing a song of six-pence for your sake
 E                         A  A7  D  E
And take a bottle full of rye
A                A7                  D
Four and twenty blackbirds in a cake
 E                        A  A7  D  E
And bake them all in a pie


F#                             E
They told me you missed school today
A                              B
So what I suggest you just throw them all away

D
The handbags and the gladrags
            E                                A
That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you


F#                             E
They told me you missed school today
A                              B
So what I suggest you just throw them all away
D
The handbags and the gladrags
            E                                A
That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you

A A7 D E