Roger Waters - Pros and cons of hitchhiking
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PROS AND CONS OF HITCHHIKING-ROGER WATERS
This is a great album, but before you start, you must learn this:
C Am C/B
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A--3---------0--------0--------0-2----|
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this is basically the main riff of the album,
(sometimes played with variations, such as one more Am bar)
it occurs in almost all of the songs (during the C/Am parts)
You should also kinda strum C and Am while playing this...
This riff will be signified by a *********************\/
at the beginning and ************/\ ending of the riff
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4:30 (Apparently They Were Running Abroad)
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C F C F C Dm Em G G+ Am
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AmWe were moCving away from the boAmrder
LCooking for somewhere to slAmeep
The tCwo of us sharing the drAmiving
Two hCitchhikers slumped in the bAmack seat
Hello
I snCeaked a quick look in the Ammirror
She gave me a smile
CI said "Is anyAmone hungry?
C Should we stop for a while?&qAmuot;
CSo we pAmulled off into a layby Am
Her drCess blew up over her hAmead
CI said "Would you likeAm to come with me?"
She said C something foreign under her breath Am
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And the sFun shone down on her lCovely young limbs
I thFought to myself she's much tCoo good for him
I lFay down beside her with tCears in my eFyes
G F *C Am *G F C C/B...
She said
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4:33 (Running Shoes)
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Am So I stood by the roadside
(G) F
The soles of my running shoes gripping the tarmac
(G) Am (G) F (G)
Like gunmetal magnets
FAmixed on the front of her Fassbinder face
(G) F
Was the kind of a smile
(G) Am
That only a rather dull child could have drawn
(G) F (G)
While attempting a graveyard in the moonlight
BAmut she was impressed
(G) F
You could see that she thought I looked fine
(G) Am
And when she turned sweeter
(G) F
The reason (between you and me) was
(G) Am F
She'd just seen my green Lamborghini
(You can play a barre-chord G in the middle of Am and F
and visa-versa to link them together)
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Am So we wCent for a spin in the cAmountry
To fCeel the wind in our hAmair
To fCeel the power of my Amengine
To fCeel the thrill of desAmire
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C Am C Am F C F C G F (C)
And tFhen in the trees I Cheard a twig snap
WFarning lights flashed on my mCap
I Fopened my eyes and tCo my surprise
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4:37 (Arabs With Knives And West German Skies)
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There were GArabs with KnCives
At the fFoot of the bAmed
RGight at the fFoot of the bCed
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Oh my GCod how did they get Amin here?
I thoCught we were safe home in AmEngland
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She said &qFuot;Come on now kid, it wCas wrong what Fyou did
You've gGot to admFit it was wrCong what you dAmid
You gGot to admFit it was wrCong"
Oh god....Jesus
SleCep Sleep
I know that I'm only dreGaming
Leave her alone..get out..out..get out of my house
ThrCough closed eyes
I see West German skies on the ceGiling
And I wFant to get back to the girl with the rucksack
To feCel her flaxen hair
I want to be thGere
See the sFun going down behind Krupps steelworks
C On the outskirts of sGome German town
GCuten Abend meiner Damen und Herren Ha Ha Ha Ha
G7Willkommen in Konnigsburg Ha Ha Ha Ha
C Wollen zie danzen mit mir oder drinken Bier Ha Ha Ha Ha
G7 Thank you but......
TF#his young lFady and I
Will just finish this bottle of wCine C7 G
It was kFind of you...but
I think we'll just say goodnCight
Leave us alone
Goodnight
"Leave us alone
C Could I have the key to one four three please?
F There you are
Thank you, goodnight
C F C
HDmello yes I'd like to order breakfast please
I'd like cEmoffee for two, and toast with marmalade
G G+
No...marmalade.
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4:39 (For The First Time Today Part 2)
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For the Cfirst time today
I hFeld her naked bGody next to mCine
In this hotFel overlAmooking the RhDm7ine
G G+
I made her mine
Am Ooh babe...oGoh babe C F Am Dm
G G+ Am
Come with me and stay with me
PlFease stAmay with me
Uh...what is it?
F Stay with me
SAmtay with me F
SCtay with me F
No...
Am Stay with me F Am F
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4:41 (Sexual Revolution)
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Em Hey, girl take out the dagger
And let's have a stab at the sCexual D revolEmution
EmHey girl let freedom for all be our rallying call
TomCorrow lets make...our nDew resolEmution
Yeah, but tonCight lie stDill
While I plGunder yDour sweet grEmave
And remCember Donly the poor can be Emsaved
EmHey girl as I've always said I prefer your lips red
Not Cwhat the good Lord made D but what he inEmtended
EmHey girl don't point the finger at me
I am only a Crat in a maze like youD and only the Emdead go free
So Cplease hold my Dhand
As we bGlunder thDrough the mEmaze
And rCemember nDothing can grow without rEmain
(Thunder)
(Em C Em C Em C Em C )
Em........... C.... Em C D G D Em
CDon't poDint your Emfinger at me
G I aG/F#woke in a fEmever
The bGedclothes wereG/F# all soaked in swEmeat
She sGaid "You've G/F#been havinEmg a nightmare
G And it's G/F#not over Emyet"
Then she pCicked up the doggy in the wDindow
(The Gone with the G/F#waggly tEmail)
And she pCut him to bed D between two bits ofEm bread
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4:47 (The Remains Of Our Love)
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G I just coG/F#wered in the coEmrner
My pyjGama coat oG/F#ver my hEmead
And she smGiled as she fiG/F#nished her sEmandwich
G G/F# Em
And her cFold eyes fixed me to my dCark history F
As she brGushed the remains
Of our lFove from the bCed
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And wChen she had turned back the Amcovers
When Call of the prayers had been rAmead
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She said &qFuot;Come on over here you silly boy
Before you cFatch your death of cold
I was only jCoking
Let's lFeave behind the city grime
Let's not compFete
It could be fine in the cCountry
CGouldn't it though...come Fon lets go
C F C F...
I said "OK"
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4:50 (Go FIshing)
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To rGeach for the pie in the sky
Go fishing my boy! Cm
Bsus4 B Cdim Bsus4 B Em C D
We setBsus4 out in the spring
With a trunk full of books about Deverything
About Bsus4solar devices
And how nice natural chDildbirth is
We Cdimcut down some trees
And we trailed our ideals
Through the Bsus4forest glade B
We Cdimdammed up the stream
And the kids cooled their heels
In the Bsus4fishing pool we'd made B
Em We held hands and weEm/D exchanged bands
And we prCactically lived off the lDand
You aBsus4dopted a fox cub
Whose mother was somebody's cDoat
YouBsus4 fed him by hand
And then snuggled him down
In the grDandfather bed while I wrote
We Cdimgrew our own maize
And I only occasionally Bsus4went into town
To sCdimtock up on antibiotics
And shells for the sBsus4hotgun that I kept arBound
I tEmold the kids stories whileEm/D you worked your loom
And the sCun went down sooner each dDay.
G *Chapter six in which Eeyore has a birthday
ACnd gets two presents
Daddy.D..coGme on dad
Eeyore the old grey donkey stood by the side
Of the strCeam and he looked at himself in the water
"Pathetic" heD said, "That's what it is"
Bsus4 B &quDot;Good morning Eeyore" said Pooh
Cdim Bsus4"Oh" said Pooh, He thought for a Blong time
Then the Bsus4leaves all fell down
Our crops all turned brown
It was Dover
As the Bsus4first snowflakes fell
I realized all was not wDell in the camp
The Cdimkids caught bronchitis
The space heater ran out of Bsus4diesel B
One wCdimeekend a friend from the East,
Rot his soul, stole your Bsus4heart B
I said Em "**** it then
Take the Em/Dkids back to town
MCaybe I'll see you arDound"
G C D G Am7 G C G/B
Am7 And so...leGaving all our hopes and dreams
To the wCind and the Am7rain D
Taking Gonly our stash
Left our Am7litter and trGash
And sCet out on the road again
G/B On the Am7road agGain
On the road again C
On the rDoaGd Em
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4:56 (For The First Time Today Part 1)
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For the fAmirst time today
I fFeel it's really Gover C
You were my Feveryday excDmuse
G G+
For playing deaf, dumb and blind
Am Who'd have ever thought
ThFis was how it would Gend for you and mCe
To carry my Fown millstDmone
G G+
Out of the trees
Am And I have to admit
I don't like it a bit
Being left here bFeside this lAmonesome road.
D/F# Lonesome road
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4:58 Dunroamin Duncarin Dunlivin
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C I nailed ducks to the Amwall
G C Kept my heart in dark rAmuins
I bGuilt bCungalows all over the hAmills
DGunrCoamin, duncarin, dunAmlivin
G C Took my girl to the cAmountry
GTo sleCep out under the mAmoon
NCext thing she's going cAmrazy
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GShe wCaits for the real Mr. AmRight to come
G GCently removing her hAmeart
With his prFomises of real communicatGion
F#Who's Falways picking up the tab
Who built a bungalow for his mum and dCad
Who tFook you out to all the shows
Who worked his fingers to the bCone
While you were aslGeep
I kept you in buttons F#and bFows
So you could encourage this crCeep
WF#ith his F neat feet
And his cleCan fingernails
WF#ith his wFise but twinkling Ceyes
He's a rFock standing out in an Cocean of doubt
FAnd compromiseG
F#I'd lFike to go on with this bCit of a song
F Describing this schmCuck
I'd lFike to go on,G but I'm going to throw Cup
[Not in my rig you don't boy...get the hell out of here]Am
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5:01 The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking
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Intro: A G C Am D G
An Dmangel on a Harley
Pulls across to greet a fellow rolling stAmone
Puts his Dmbike up on it's stand
Leans back and then extends
A scarred and greasy Amhand...he said
G How ya doin bro?...where ya been?...where ya gCoin'? Am
Then he tDakes your hand
In some strange Californian handshake
And breaks the bGone
A hDmousewife from Encino
Whose husband's on the golf course
With his bAmook of rules
BrDmeaks and makes a 'U' and idles back
To take a second look at yAmou
GYou flex your rod
Fish takes the hCook Am
Sweet vDodka and tobacco in her breath
G Another number in your little black book
C These are the pros and cons of Emhitchhiking
C These are the pros and cons of hEmitchhiking
D Oh babe, I must be drGeaming
I'm stDmanding on the leading edge
The Eastern seaboard spread before my Ameyes
&qDmuot;Jump" says Yoko Ono
"I'm too scared and too good looking&Amquot; I cried
&Gquot;Go on", she says
"Why don't you give iCt a try? Am
WDhy prolong the agony all men must dGie"
Dm Am Dm Am C C/B Am G
Dm Do you remember Dick Tracy?
Do you remember SAmhane?
And mother wants you
Could you sDmee him selling tickets
Where the buzzard circles over [SAmhane]
The body on the plain
Did you Gunderstand the music Yoko
Or was it all in vCain? [Shane] Am
The *D**** said something mystical "Herro"
So I stGepped back on the kerb again
C These are the pros and cons of hEmitchhiking
C These are the pros and cons of hEmitchhiking
D Oh babe, I must be drGeaming again
C Em (repeat and fade)
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
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5:06 (Every Stranger's Eyes)
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C Hello...you wanna cup of coffee?
I'm sDmorry, would you like a cup of coffee?
Ok you take crGeam and sugar?
In trCuck stops and hamburger joints
In Cadillac limousines
In the company of hDmas-beens
And bent-backs G and sleeping forms
On pavement steps
In lCibraries and railway stations
In books and banks
Dm In the pages of history
In sGuicidal cavalry attacks
I recognise... C C/B Am
F Myself in Gevery stranger's eCyes
And in whCeelchairs by monuments
Under tube trains and commuter accidents
Dm In council care and county courts
G At Easter fairs and sea-side resorts
In drCawing rooms and city morgues
In award winning photographs
Of life rafts in the China seas
In trDmansit camps, under arc lamps
On unloading ramps
G In faces blurred by rubber stamps
I recognise...C C/B Am
F Myself in Gevery stranger's Ceyes
And nCow from whereC/B I sAmtand
Upon this Dmhill I plundered from the pGool
I look arCound, I search tC/Bhe sAmkies
I shade my eDmyes, so nearly blGind
And I see sCigns of half reC/Bmembered dAmays
I hear bells tGhat chFime in strDmange familiar wayGs
I recognCaiC/B----Amise...
F The hope you kGindle in your eyCes F
C F G C Am Dm G
CIts oh so easy now
As we lFie here in the dGark
Nothing Eminterferes it's obvious
How to bAmeat the tears
That thrDmeaten to snuff out
The spGark of our lCove
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5:11 (Moment Of Clarity)
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And the mComent of clarity
Faded like charity dAmoes
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AmAnd sometimes
I pFut out my hand just to tCouch your soft hair
To make sFure in the darkness that yCou were still there
And I hFave to admit
I wCas just a lAmittle afrGaid, F oh yCeah
But tAmhen...
I hFad a little bit of luck
You were awake
I couldn't take another moment alCone.