Tom Robinson - War baby
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Song: War baby
Artist: Tom Robinson
Album: War baby
Tabbed by DJ
3rd Jun 2015
Gmaj7 = 320002 B7sus4 = 797977 Em/G# = 4xxxxx
G6 = 320000 Dmaj7 = x57675 Em/A = x0xxxx
Em7 = 075700 Em = 0xxxxx Em/B = x2xxxx
Dmaj7sus2 = x57655 Em/F# = 2xxxxx Em/C = x3xxxx
D#maj7sus2 = x68766 Em/G = 3xxxxx Em/C# = x4xxxx
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[Intro]
(Gmaj7) (G6) (Gmaj7) (G6)
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Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
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[Verse 1]
B7sus4 Only the very young, and the very beautiful can be so aloof,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
Hanging out with the boys, all swagger and poise,
Gmaj7 I don't even cG6are what other Gmaj7people are there, G6
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
I just stare, and stare, and stare!
[Verse 2]
B7sus4 I see your shadow in the swimming pool,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
I see your face in the shaving mirror,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
Time, and time, and time a - gain,
Gmaj7 I follow your fG6oot steps, so qGmaj7uietly up the bacG6kstairs,
Em7 And I hope, and I pray,
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
You ain't never gonna find me there!
[Verse 3]
B7sus4 Smooth skin and tenderness, long ago on a dark night,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
Wish I could ...see you once a - gain,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
Just to re - member that it was true,
I Gmaj7want to be still be - sG6ide you, Gmaj7quiet and still be - sG6ide you,
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
Listening to your breathing, and feeling your warmth a - gain!
[Chorus]
B7sus4 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
War baby, you were a war--- baby,
Gmaj7 TG6his meansGmaj7 war, bG6aby, ...I'm scEmared, Em/F# so sEm/Gcared, Em/G#
Of what - Em/Aever it Em/Bis you keep puEm/Ctting me tEm/C#hrough!
[Verse 4]
B7sus4 I don't think I could stand another ten years of this fighting,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
All this stabbing and wounding, only getting my own back,
Gmaj7 I don't want to baG6tter you to your Gmaj7feet and knees and elG6bows,
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
When I'm kneeling by the candle at the foot of my own bed!
[Verse 5]
B7sus4 Corresponding disasters ...every night on the TV,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
Sickening re - ality keeps gripping me in its guts,
All my fGmaj7riends talk and jG6oke, and Gmaj7laugh about Arma - gG6eddon,
But, like a niEm7ghtmare,
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
It's still waiting there at the end of each and every day!
[Chorus]
B7sus4 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
War baby, you were a war--- baby,
Gmaj7 TG6his meansGmaj7 war, bG6aby, ...I'm scEmared, Em/F# so sEm/Gcared, Em/G#
Of what - Em/Aever it Em/Bis you keep pEm/Cutting me tEm/C#hrough!
[Sax Break]
B7sus4 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
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Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6 Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G# Em/A Em/B Em/C Em/C#
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[Verse 6]
B7sus4 I don't think I could stand another ten years of this fighting,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
Always stabbing and wounding, only getting my own back,
Gmaj7Later that seem evG6ening, when we wereGmaj7 out in the car taG6lking,
Em7 I suddenly wondered...
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
Who the hell it was we were trying to fool?
[Verse 7]
B7sus4 'Cause you were the first one ...I ever wanted,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
And it's ...you I come home to at the end of every day,
Like a Gmaj7mother-sucking bG6aby, de - mGmaj7anding and so heG6lpless,
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
A little old balding man, all wrinkles and bulging eyes!
[Chorus]
B7sus4 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
War baby, ...war--- baby,
Gmaj7 TG6his meansGmaj7 war, bG6aby, ...I'm scEmared, Em/F# so sEm/Gcared, Em/G#
Of what - Em/Aever itEm/B is you keep pEm/Cutting me tEm/C#hrough!
[Coda]
B7sus4 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
You were a war baby, talking about the Third World War---, baby,
| Gmaj7 / / G6/ / | Gmaj7 War---, G6baby!
Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G# Em/A Em/B Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2 B7sus4
...So scared!(...scared, scared, scared!)