Son Of A Gun Chords

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Bbadd9

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heliocentric@breathe.com
February 4th 2001.  1.36pm
 
SON OF A GUN by THE LA'S
 
Written by Lee Mavers
 
From the album 'The La's' (Go! Discs, 1990)
 
Chords used:
 
Standard tuning (EADGBe)
 
C:  x32010
Bb: x1333x
F:  133211
 
Or alternatively you could tune your guitar down a tone to
 
DGCFAd
 
and use these shapes:
 
C:  xx0232
Bb  x32033 (Bbadd9)
F:  320033
 
 
C Bb (x4)
 
       C    Bb  C
If you want
     Bb         C    Bb     C
I'll sell you a life story
 Bb     C           Bb    C              Bb           C     Bb  C
About a man who's a loggerheads with his past all the time
Bb    C    Bb  C
He's alive
    Bb        C    Bb     C  Bb
and living in purgatory
         C        Bb         C
All he's doing is rooming in hotels
    Bb          C       Bb   C
And scooping up lots of wine
 
          F      Bb     C      Bb
There was once a boy of life
    F      Bb      C      Bb
Who lived upon the knife
   F        Bb       C    Bb
He took his share of everywhere
       F     Bb     C
But he never took a wife...
 
Bb     C    Bb  C
He was born
   Bb          C    Bb    C  Bb
To live like a mercenary
     C    Bb      C            Bb
Well personally I think that's fine
          C      Bb         C
If you're in the right mind
Bb     C Bb  C          Bb        C         Bb  C  Bb
He was bur - ned by the twentieth century
    C          Bb          C           Bb
Now he's doing time in the back of his mind
       C         Bb
He can hear them outside
 
       F    Bb     C     Bb
Better run, rabbit run
F     Bb     C    Bb
Run into the sun
F         Bb           C       Bb
Kick your heels in the killing fields
F   Bb     C
Run rabbit run
           Bb       C   Bb
You're the son of a gun
 
C Bb (x8)
 
He was born to live like a mercenary
Well personally I think that's fine
If you're in the right mind.
 
F
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I think that the chords are like this for the verse: e----- ----- B--3-- --3-- G--0-- --2-- D--2-- --0-- A--3-- --0-- E----- ----- And Like this for the Chorus: e----- ----- ----- ----- B--3-- --3-- --3-- --3-- G--0-- --0-- --2-- --0-- D--0-- --2-- --0-- --2-- A--2-- --3-- --0-- --3-- E--3-- ----- ----- -----

Yep the chords are one semitone higher. So C# B F#. Also there is a little turn around I think at the end of each verse He took his share... C# B C# B C# F#m B

i think with a capo at first fret it sounds okay