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Addle Brains
Written by Glenn Richards
Paino tab
Ukelele tab
guitar tab/chords
Tabbed by Tim Weekes
I believe it is in 4/4 - I am not THAT musically minded... but I am willing to make this statement!
Introduction:
D, G, A
E -10--14--9--12--7--5--7-10-9---------------------
B -------------------------------------------------
G -------------------------------------------------
D -------------------------------------------------
A -------------------------------------------------
E -------------------------------------------------
I suppose this can be played anywhere else on the guitar as long as it is the same notes…
Now... the actual song... pretty simple - my tab has a mammoth 3 chords in it... yah! Enjoy... I suspect that it could be wrong in parts...
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D
A Tuesday night in Winter,
A
holed up in the city of ravens,
D
The owls in the hills hoo-hooing and eyeing off the
A
field mice down in the cold grey centre,
D G A
Addle Brains lining up with the dead for the soup spoon,
D G A
Addle Brains and the legions of the passed for the bread bag,
D
Ladle the soup, pass the rolls,
A D G A
Addle Brains and the many not here and loose souls.
D A
One might fly off to the blank heavens and the lead high halls,
D A
O the hungry sky aches for blokes without folks and bulges with the bearers of palls.
D G A
Addle Brains would drink for four days and no eats,
D A
and sleep in the glens of botanical parks, and on the humped bus shelter seats,
D G A
Where it's cold,
D G A
where it's cold.
D A
One morning I woke up in a room in the nation's heart,
D A
and couldn't think for the life of me what I was doing, or where to start,
D G A
or what rehearsal was required, I was so sad and tired.
D
What does a bird want with money?
A
Was he made this way?
D
Do you have to earn the right to find all of this funny?
A
Nothing's funny today.
D G A
Addle Brains mixes his powders with his fateful blues,
D G A D
and the wide-eyed bubs of the Parliament couldn't give a hoot, or even two.
D A
All it takes, it takes, is a kind look and a word, a word,
D A
Some pretty eyes and skin, from your fine family you were given to win,
D G A
and spill it over into the basin of common sin,
D G A
just a drop, a drop of the stuff that makes us kin
D G A
Addle Brains perching way out on a limb.
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Have fun,
tim w.