Pete Townshend - English boy
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English Boy | guitar tab
By Pete Townshend
>From Psychoderelict, 1993
Written by Pete Townshend (c)1993 Towser Tunes Inc./Eel Pie Publishing Ltd.
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transcribed by Whotabs
litgo@aol.com 1998-07-22 www.thewho.net/whotabs
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[note: use non-dialogue or 'Best of PT' version]
Capo on 3 [dropped 'D' tuning: FCFBbDG with capo]
F (3)(3)3565
Bb x53366
C x3555x
C#7sus2 xxx 13 12 10
D7sus2 xxx 14 13 11
E7 xx 12 13 12 x
F7 xx 13 14 13 x
Bb xx3366 (bridge)
Bbmaj7 xx3365
Ebadd9 x63363
[intro]
F5 F/Ab F5
|---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
|---------6-----------|---------6-----------|---------6-----------|
|---------5-----------|-5-------5-----------|-5-------5-----------|
|-3-------3-----------|-3-------3-----------|-3-------3-----------|
|-3-------3-----------|-3-------------------|-3-------3------0-3--|
|-3-3-6^--------------|-3-3-6^--------------|-3-3-6^--------------|
|---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
|---------6-----------|---------6-----------|---------6-----------|
|-5-------5-----------|-5-------5-------3---|-5-------5-----------|
|-3-------3---3/0/3/0~|-3-------3------3--6~|-3-------3------3-6-6|
|-3-------3-----------|-3-------3---3h6-----|-3-------3---3h6-----|
|-3-3-6^--------------|-3-3-6^--------------|-3-3-6^--------------|
|---------------------|---------------------|---------|--------------|
|---------6-----------|---------------------|---------|--------------|
|-5-------5--------3--|---------------------|---------|--------------|
|-3-------3------3---6|-6/8-6p3-6p3---3-----|---------|--------------|
|-3-------3---3h6-----|-------------6--6-3--|---------|--------------|
|-3-3-6^--------------|--------------------6|-3---5-7-|-8-10--10-12--|
|-------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|--------------|
|-------------------|--------------|
|-13-12----10--7----|-8--10--5^-3--|
[chorus]
I'm an FEnglish boyBb Bb C
I was brought up right
Hold me down and I will bite
I know no fear, I serve with joy
I'm proud to be here, an English boy
[verse]
I C#7sus2feel like a stray dog D7sus2 E7Blurred like a movie F7
You say you've C#7sus2come to arrest mD7sus2e But you're E7just trying to test mF7e
I'm bored with your prejudice spreading like a fever
Your promises to train me are just attempts to restrain me
[repeat chorus]
I am an English boy, precisely made
You can pin me down, I am not afraid
I show no fear, I will serve with joy
I'm proud to be here, an English boy
[repeat verse]
Use me like a headline, cut pieces to pieces
I'm black on the tube line, red on the touch-line
Freezing up a future, stopping every stopwatch
You say we're moving like an oilslick, thicker than a housebrick
[bridge]
I'm an FEnglish bEbadd9oy, I was Bbbrought up Bbmaj7right
If you raise your dress, then I will bite
My voice is clear, I got perfect poise
Good to Fbe down Ebadd9here with all the BbEnglish Bbmaj7boys
Eb/Bb And I don't know Bbwhere I am know orF/Bb where I'm gonna Bbgo
I keep going Cm7/Abround and round on the Circle LBbine
Like some demented kind of coFmmuter trying to avoid Bbpaying for my ticket
Eb/F I'm a Clost soul,F I read about myself in the nCewspapers
I'm a F/Cpig, I'm a Cthug, I've got Cnowhere to go but F5down
[repeat intro]
[repeat verse]
Feel like I'm kicking at a dead man, kicking in the chorus
I'm broken by hatred, while politicians just ignore us
You never gave me any value, you didn't give me any reason
There's no tools and no toys for any English boys
[repeat chorus]
I'm an English boy, I was brought up right
Hold me down and I will bite
I know no fear, I will serve with joy
I'm proud to be here, an English boy, yeah...
[outro]
I'm an FEnglish Ebadd9boy, yeah.Bb.. Bbmaj7
No tools, no toys for any English boys
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