Fly Boy Blue Lunette Chords

by Elbow
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Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 3rd fret
Author nicholas.s.harr [a] 41.
2 contributors total, last edit on Oct 14, 2024

Chords

Em
Bm
C
B7
Cadd9
G
D

Strumming

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This is from a couple hours of jamming along. It sounds pretty close.
 
Elbow's 'Fly boy blue / Lunette' from the album 'The taking off and landing of everything'
 
 
Standard tuning
start with the capo on 3
 
[Intro]
Em Em
 
 
[Verse 1]
Em
It's a lethal ballet
Air traffic congestion
I'm having a baby
Second thoughts, scotch, dinner
     Bm
And someone's dancing on the box
A former MP
And no one was watching
     C
My oldest friends are a serious habit
                                   B7
Fly boy blue, so bring your faces home,
To my sweet trampoline
                        Em
And acres of crash site love
 
 
[Instrumental]
Em
 
 
[Chorus]
     Bm
And someone's dancing on the box
A former MP
And no one was watching
     C
My oldest friends are a serious habit
                                   B7
Fly boy blue, so bring your faces home,
To my sweet trampoline
                        Em
And acres of crash site love
 
 
[Instrumental]
Em Bm C B7 Em
 
 
[Verse 2]
Em
Presidential delays
Suppose I'm just lucky
I'm having a shindig
Me, Red Bob and The Ivory Host
    Bm
And someone's shouting on the box
A chinless prefect gone Godzilla
   C
My newest friends have forgotten my name
                                 B7
But so have I so far so good and home
You and me trampoline
                         Em
And oceans of crash site love
 
 
[Instrumental]
Em Bm C B7
 
 
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The first part is like this all the way through, but the moment the second part starts,
PULL OFF THE CAPO. I'm certain the guitarist in the video does this too
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NO CAPO
 
 
[Bridge]
Cadd9 G Em D x3
 
 
[Verse 3]
Cadd9
What can be said of the cigarette smokes?
  G
A prop for a joke or a mark on the clock
     Em
If I stopped would the bus ever come
                    D
Would the dawn ever kiss me, forgiven me, knowing what's done?
          Cadd9
Would the drivel make scribble make sense and then song?
          G
Would the woodbines denied like the northern man's thumbs?
   Em
Perverse as it may sound I sometimes believe
    D
The tip to my lips just reminds me to breathe
 
 
[Verse 4]
Cadd9
What can be said of the whiskey and wine
G
Random abandon or ballast for joy
         Em
That was scuppered with trust little more than a boy 
      D
And besides I'm in excellent company
    Cadd9
I'm reaching the age when decisions are made 
       G
on the life and the liver and I'm sure, last ditch 
          Em
that I'll ask for more time, but Mother forgive me
  D
I still want a bottle of good Irish whiskey
      Cadd9                          G
And a bundle of smokes in my grave
 
 
[Verse 5]
          Em
But there isn't words yet for the comfort I get
         D
From the gentle lunette at the top of the nape 
       Cadd9
of the neck that I wake to
    G
And where are the words for the leap in my chest
     Em
When mischief appears either side of the scar 
        D
on your nose, made by a rose thorn
       Cadd9
So you claim, by a rose thorn
 
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Fly Boy Blue Lunette – Elbow
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3 comments
bingleymarcus
by the way the correct lyric (from lunette) is Would the Woodbines denied black another man's lungs although northern man's thumbs is great too but in a different way haha
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adamcummings20
Strumming pattern follows the bass on Lunette
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bingleymarcus
sounds bloody perfect to me, mate. great tab, fantastic song.
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