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...GANGSTERS... by The Specials
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*Released 1979*
(modified from Winston Campbell's original tab: jieuryli@eden.rutgers.edu)
Intro:
(Spoken):
Bernie Rhodes knows; don't argue!
A
e|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|
D|-----------------------------|
A|-----------------------------|
E|--5-3-0-3--5-5--5-3-3--0--3--| (x2)
Verse 1:
Am Ab Am
Why must you record my phone calls?
Ab Am
Are you planning a bootleg L-P?
Am Ab Am
Said you've been threatened by gangsters;
D C E7
Now it's you that's threatening me.
Verse 2:
Am Ab Am
Can't fight cor-ruption with con tricks,
Ab Am
They use the law to commit crime.
Ab Am
And I dread, dread to think, what the future will bring,
C G E7
When we're living in gangster time.
(Spoken):
Don't call me scar face!
Interlude:
A
e|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|
D|-----------------------------|
A|-----------------------------|
E|--5-3-0-3--5-5--5-3-3--0--3--| (x2)
Solo:
(Guitar plays):
Am Ab Am (x3), D C E7
e|---------------------------------|
B|--5------------5-6-5-------------|
G|------8--5--8---------8-5-4-2-0--|
D|---------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------| (x3)
e|--5--5-5-5--5--5-8--8-8-8--8--8--|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|
e|--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12--|
B|---------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------|
Verse 3:
Am Ab Am
Can't inter-rupt while I'm talking,
Ab Am
Or they'll confiscate all your gui-tars,
Ab Am
And catch 22 says, if I sing the truth;
D C E7
They won't make me an overnight star.
Verse 4:
Am Ab Am
Don't offer us legal pro-tection,
Ab Am
They use the law to commit crime.
Ab Am
And I dread, dread to think, what the future will bring,
C G E7
When we're living in gangster time.
(Bernie Rhodes knows; don't argue!)
Outro:
A
e|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|
D|-----------------------------|
A|-----------------------------|
E|--5-3-0-3--5-5--5-3-3--0--3--| (x8)
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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A Am Ab D C E7 G
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
577655 577555 466544 x57775 x35553 x79797 355433
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)
