Boomtown Rats - Diamond smiles
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Diamond Smiles by The Boomtown Rats
Intro 2 bars of E
CTraffics wild tonight
Diamond smiles her cocktail Fsmile
Tonight she’s in heavy dGisguise
She looks at her wrist to clock the Cpassing time
CWeathers mild tonight
She wonders will they notice her Feyes
She wonders will her glamour surGvive
And can they see she’s going down Ca third time
COh everybody tries
It’s Dale Carnegie gonFe wild
But Barbara Cartland’Gs child
Long ago perfected the Cmotionless glide
CAnd in the low voltage noise
Diamond seems so sure and so Fpoised
She shimmers for the bright young Gboys
And says ‘love is for others but foCr me it destroys’
The girl in the cake
Jumped out too soon by mistake
Somebody said the whole things half baked
And Diamond lifts her glass and says ‘Cheers’
She stands to one side
There’s no more to this than meets the eye
Everybody drinks Martini dry
And talks about clothes and the latest styles
Chorus
COh, oh they said she Fdid it with grace
They said she Gdid it with style
They said she Fdid it all
They said beGfore she died
Whoa, Fwhoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
GI remember Diamond’Cs smile
Nobody saw her go
They said they should have noticed ‘cause her dress was cut so low
Well it only goes to show
Ha, ha how many real men any of us know
She went up the stairs
Stood upon the vanity chair
Tied her lame belt around the chandelier
And went out kicking at the perfumed air
Chorus
COh, oh they said she Fdid it with grace
They said she Gdid it with style
They said she Fdid it all
They said beGfore she died
Whoa, Fwhoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
GI remember Diamond’Cs smile
Na, na, na, na, na, na
(This is repeated over and over again to a recurring 2 bar pattern of E, A, B and E)
This is my first go at this so please forgive any mistakes. I play this using
some palm muting. Its a brilliant little tune, from long ago. Enjoy!