Steve Harley - The human menagerie
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I didn't do these tabs myself, they come from
but they are here for reference. Hope they help.
Hideaway Chords
Intro Repeat 4 times Em Bm D
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EmLet them come a running, take all your money and Bmhideaway
Let them come a running, take all your money and flee
Let them come a running, take all your money and hideaway, hideaway
DIt was summer or maybe spring, I can'tEm remember
It was summer or maybe spring, I can't recall
We found our hearts and stole them from our bodies
(We couldn't understand the Villain's call)
We'd often recall the beginnings
We'd often try in vain to change it all
We couldn't help but keep ourselves from sinning
DIn summer, in summer Emor maybe spring, Emor maybe spring, Emor maybe spring
What Ruthy Said
Start chugging away with an A chord then
D D A G A
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Your... Berlin.. Model
You're wearing grey today, you're from Berlin I'd say you're a model
A A D G A
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Can... fashion too Wobble
Can I be blue for you, like I'm in fashion too' See me wobble
D D F#m
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We'll... Best.. throttle
We'll be a pair of swells and dig the best hotels Hit the throttle
Bm Bm A
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We'll do.. life we knew.. gay
We'll do the rhumba too and say the life we knew was so gay
Repeat the chord pattern for the rest of the song.
Loretta's Tale
Intro
G
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Verse
G Strum Chords G G C/G
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Watch... Kick.... behind
Like Ask been
C Am Am G G
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Sprawl.. then Speak... again
She says lies I've times
Chorus
Em C
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I never lost control...
It was a very.. show
All I ever.. oh..............
C G G D D
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.................. Are you ........go
For the slower bit ad lib on a C with D bass and D chords
C/D D
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For Loretta one
She only played for fun
She give her life away
Counted hundreds, came to none...
Instrumental
Intro X 4 then
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I never...
Crazy Raver
Strum along on a D & G chord for the first 4 lines
DLazy stage-star; wanna be a raver
GYou've gotta make it all Dhappen insane
DCrazy raver; wanna be a big star
GYou've gotta make it all Dhappen again
then
D Bm A G D
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You want They'll.. You'll... all
GSo while you're there you'd better Dshow us a ball
And wear your sequins or wear nothing at all
Take us to heaven with our backs to the wall
The climbing's hard but it's easy to fall
Oh! here's a monkey with a message for us all
GGo be a Crazy ARaver, oh!D oh! yeah
Go be a Crazy Raver
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Sebastion
Note - Apparently this was written in Cm Gm Bb(Thanks Hans).
To play along with the song it's a semi tone lower.
So I use Bm F#m & A
Intro - Pluck Chord
Bm Trill (hammer on & off quickly)
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F#mRadiate simply, the candle is burning, sBmo low for me
Generate me limply, can't seem to place your name, cherie
To rearrange all these thoughts in a moment is suicide
Come to a strange place, we'll talk over old times we never smile
ASomebody called me SebaBmstian
Somebody called me Sebastian
F#mWork out a Bmrhyme, F#mtoss me the Bmtime, F#mlay me, Bmyou're mine
BmAnd we all know, Aoh yeah!
Just before the ad lib fade out
Pluck with palm mute
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With orchestra
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F#m & Bm for the fade out
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Mirror Freak
Intro
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EmExhibition yourself we'll hold a show on the shelf
EmNow we can Gfeel a change is Aon the wayEm
EmYou're not a skin or a spiv boy who are you trying to kid
EmYou're jolly Ghandsome, super, Awizard, okayEm'
EmWould you Gresort to telling Aall your friends Emlies
EmWhen they can Gsee right through your Aflimsy disguEmise'
EmWe all consider you far out so there can be little doubt
EmYou're gonna Gmake it in a Abig, big wEmay
Chorus:
EmOh we can fDeel a new Aexistence begEminning
And the yobs have made a go at forgiving
And the new man he appears to be winning
EmWhat a shame such a boBre!
DI don't wanna Aturn on tonEmite
Said I don't wanna turn on tonite
Outro D A Em pattern
Em
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My Only Vice (Is The Fantastic Prices I Charge For Being Eaten Alive)
(Chords supplied by Hans Peters)
Use this beat line D-C-G-G
DSimply Lorraine Csings for a whilGe
In a three-octave harmonica style
CIt's easy to see her harmony Cstabbing at my songs DfromC beGhinGd
Trying to stick her cosmic philosopher's words into rhymes......
Nobody can tell it the same
To her evcrything's just like a game
But she'll make it seem some big machine's driving you clean outa your mind
Come on admit it, that's just the limit, we've travelled from mad to sublime
Chorus:
EmOh she's a lady from a Cbackground of Dpearls
Who's tormenting and bending my world
EmMy only vice Dis Cthe Gfantastic prCices DI Gcharge Dfor bCeing GeatDen CaliveG. . .
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Muriel the Actor
CShe, got my number and she - chasing me so far
FMe, out of slumber, I can do with no faut-pas
GMixed-up and bleeding, FI's high on beleiving
CIt's all surreal
Slip on a T-shirt, me - gotta look so cool
Me Biba braces are making me so cruel
She, dinosaur and me, her He-whore
Sleep Muriel
Chorus:
COh! See her move so right in her Gbig baggy strides
And her Fgolden top made of satCin
See her wriggle her hips, take the almighty piss
This is Muriel the Actor who's rapping,
GMuriel the Factor she's Crapping ping - ping
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Chameleon
Cand Louise, Fcowering Ginto Cnowhere
Fspeaking in Gterms of a Cforeign Fland where winter liesC easy
Fand she will surmise the Gguise of Cchateau eyes and Frise . . .
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Death Trip (Thanks to Hans again)
Chord Pattern G-------F-------Em------Eb--D7--
GSo now we're on a death trip
Flisten to the blood drip
Emoozing from a curled lip
Ebever thought D7of dying Gslowly F
Emever thought of dying EbtotaD7lly Gunholy
DWe'll grow D/GSweet Ipomoea
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