The Beautiful South

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10000 Feet

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Verse 1 The part of love I'm scared of Is the actual taking off I can take a bumpy landing But the start must be soft

101 Man

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I've seen these people described as mad But find men kissing too odd Say all their friends are gay when in fact They gave a man in tight vest a quick nod

36D

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[Verse 1] Close your legs, open your mind Leave those compliments well behind Dig a little deeper into yourself And you may find

A Little Blue

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You can't write a novel from a briefcase You can write a poem from a trench You can dream a dream from A___ to B But you can't catch a bus from a bench

A Little Piece Of Advice

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Guard your body with the best barbed wire And ward off foe with the fiercest of fire But let love unguarded into the strangest of nights Wear your dresses like they're up for hire And leave them with your humor in the tumble dryer

A Little Time

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[Verse 1] I need a little time To think it over I need a little space Just on my own

A Piece Of Sky

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No piece of sky For you Jimmy lad They always blame him They knew Jimmy was bad His own fault entirely

Bell-Bottomed Tear

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This is the dinner prepared This is the dress that I made This is the child I brought up And this is the woman you laid This is the woman you laid

Blackbird On The Wire

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[Verse 1] Eyes to take you dancing, Mouth to leave your wife, Legs to run away with, and you wonder why

Blitzkrieg Bop

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[Verse 1] They're forming in straight line They're going through a tight wind The kids are losing their minds The Blitzkrieg Bop

The Cat Loves The Mouse

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[Verse 1] We've come a long way from the cave What, you started to shave? Now we know just how to behave Since chivalry decided to bathe

Ciao

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[Verse 1] I've been so happy since I walked away I never thought that I could feel as great as I do today 'cause you were nothing but a big mistake And life is wonderful, now that I'm rid of you

Closer Than Most

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Well I kept fantasizing your eyes were wide open And it made me long for little last night Yes it was frantic, it was young, it was sweet But a sweet worth every bite Now I'm not normally one to be greedy

Domino Man

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Through ugly pints and Sunday breath Sit men whose stare is cold as breath Through wide lapels and glued up eyes Through made up kids and made up wives

Dont Marry Her

C Fmaj7 G D

Artist - The Beautiful South Song - Dont Marry Her Album - "Blue Is The Colour" Tabbed By JINX

Dont Stop Moving

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DJ's got the party started Theres no end in sight Everybody's moving to the Rhythm that's inside It's a crazy world

Dream A Little Dream

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Stars shining bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you" Birds singin' in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me

Dumb

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It doesn't take a mathematician To add a simple sum Either you are simply beautiful Or I am simply dumb Dumb, dumb, dumb, (Ah, ah, ah)

Especially For You

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[Verse 1] Only buy this if you're lonely Only listen if you're blue If you're married and you are happy This song is not to do with you

Everybodys Talkin

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I`m going where the sun keeps shining Thru´ the pouring rain Going where the weather suits my clothes Backing off from the North East wind Sailing on summer breeze

Foundations

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Artist - The Beautiful South Song - Foundations Album - Blue Is The Colour Tabbed By Fonkun

Frank And Delores

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Frank loved the blue Big open skies Played an old concertina Singing loola lullabies Frank loved an angel

From Under The Covers

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[Verse 1] It's six a.m. and even Big Ben Is trying to get his head down for a kip But no sooner is it down And then it's on with dressing gown

Good As Gold

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Don´t know what I´m doing here I´ll carry on regardless Got enough money for one more beer I`ll carry on regardless

Half Of Him

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[Verse 1] Why forbidden fruit Always looks so sweet Hanging down like devil's food From highest branch on tree

Hold On To What

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Verse 1: She'd given everything she could give Twenty years of kindness made her sad Kindness never made enough to live So she sold the very last thing that she had

Hooligans Dont Fall In Love

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[Verse 1] Vagabonds don't fall in love They just wheel and they deal So if I turn a funny colour when you kiss me I can't help the way that I feel

How Longs A Tear Take To Dry

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[Verse 1] How long's a tear take to dry When a woman has no breeze? How long's a tear take to dry When a woman, when a woman's on her knees?

I Cant Put My Finger On It

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As Martin said to Xanthe As they played with wooden toys, "You may have Wendy's playhouse, But where the hell's your boys?"

I Love You But Youre Boring

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Birds are singing in the trees As we rise up on a beautiful morning But I can't hear That beautiful sound Because I'm permanently yawning

I Think The Answers Yes

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I'm walking through these pastures I'm picking up sweet fruit I'm shaking hands with people That previously I'd shoot But nothing will dissuade me

Ill Sail This Ship Alone

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If, if you choose that we will always lose Well then I'll sail this ship alone And if, if you decide to give him another try Well then I'll sail this ship alone

Im Your Number One Fan

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I was handed down the looks of a man with a broken nose That's the way our family was I suppose But at least you gave me deeply profound As we lay and chattered late upon the cricket ground

The Last Waltz

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Don't feel bad if you're feeling past you sell-by date Like the roller coaster ride slowed down to a serious debate Oh the weather you tell them you're ready or whether you wait Does someone place a hand on your shoulder you point the way to the gate

Let Go With The Flow

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[Verse 1] The super fly guy that you're courtin' now Used to be a super-swot And the clothes he thinks look retro Are more 'Land That Time Forgot'

Let Love Speak For Itself

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So when you feel a little tatty and unhappy with your face Let it breathe into us and put you back in place Let it breathe, let it breathe From the day it came into us 'till the day it wants to leave For it will, it will go

Life Vs The Lifeless

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When was the last time you felt so happy You had to give yourself a good pinch When did you ever feel one of life's highs Without using stepladder or winch That's why the lifeless crave the past

Look What I Found In My Beer

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Look what I found in my beer A couple of dancing ladies and a ticket out of here Look what I found in my beer A start to being lonely and an end to my career

Love Is

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Uuh, you care, you really really care From the first 12 inch I made to the color of my underwear Uhh, you know, you really really know Inside outside in, from head to toe But where were you in the colder days?

Manchester

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From Northenden to Partington its ra-a-ain From Altrincham to Chadderton its rain From Moss Side to Swinton hardly Sp-a-ain It’s a picture postcard of wish they never came.

Masculine Eclipse

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That grand facade will finally diminish When he breaks your heart from start to finish Sisters dream of isles in paradise That ain't no use when the captain's just capsized The smile that you now know, was a guise

The Mediterranean

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This ocean puts in motion All our wildest Crusoe thoughts Turns brain to Kontiki When it?s always been left in port

Mirror

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[Verse 1] They could be fat or could be thin They could be black, they could be white Tell me who's knocking at the knocking shop door tonight

Mothers Pride

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Here he comes - Mother's Pride With the first ever satchel she bought him swinging by his side Here he comes Mother's Pride With a headful of 'get your laces tied' and 'woe betide'

My Book

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[Verse 1] This is my life and this is how it reads For every chapter, a thousand memories A murder, a mystery where everybody bleeds A fantasy, a thriller with romance and disease

Number One Fan

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I was handed down the looks of a man with a broken nose That's the way our family was I suppose But at least you gave me deeply profound As we lay and chattered late upon the cricket ground

Oh Blackpool

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[Verse] I wasn't sure if it was Marx or Hitler that was in this year I hadn't been to Brighton for a while so it wasn't too clear So imagine my surprise when I opened my eyes To find it was the Liberals who were hip to sloganeer

Old Red Eyes Is Back

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[Verse 1] Old Red eyes is back Red from the night before the night before Walked into the wrong bar walked into a door

One God

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[Verse 1] Like the toupee on a fading fame The final whistle in a losing game Thick lipstick on a five year old girl It makes you think that it's a plastic world

One Last Love Song

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[Verse 1] I once had a friend who I loved from my heart But I went on and left her 'fore I'd made a start Now I'm moaning the blues like the rest of the charts Take me back

Perfect 10

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[Chorus] 'Cause we love our love, in different sizes I love her body, especially the lies Time takes it's toll, but not on the eyes Promise me this, take me tonight

Poppy

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I fought hard in the Second World War you'll hear them shout It's no good bragging about the Afrika Korps it was Beadle's About They dressed you up and took you off to World War One Armed you and surrounded you with wire Sat in stinking mud you sang your stupid songs

Pretenders To The Throne

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Is it Cologne with its great cathedral? Milan with its glamour and its pace? London with its river and its bridges? Lisbon with its beauty and its grace?

Prettiest Eyes

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Line one, Is the time, That you, You first stayed over at mine And we drank our first bottle of wine, And we cried Two, We're away, And we both, We both had nowhere to stay Well the bus shelters always okay, When you're young Now you're older and I look at your face, Every wrinkle is so easy to place

Pretty

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[Verse 1] You're kind of pretty you can cover in make-up Cover in perfume too Moonlight, mud fight, any kinda sunlight Still comes shining through

Property Quiz

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All the secrets we have shared Have moved to a couple better paired So if he impales himself on javelin or spike I will try my best to be the perfect lookalike

The Rocking Chair

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Here I walk, here I walk Loooking for an angel's wings in the den of the hawk Here I am, here I am

The Root Of All Evil

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This is my first tab, not sure whether its fully correct. Chords sound great When strumming along and I think I have the main chord progression down so Please give any feedback you can. Peace! Beautiful South - The Root of All Evil - 2:40

Rose Of My Cologne

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Distant friends and relatives Each of them a problem they would share From the in-laws to the out laws Quietly she would soak their despair

Rotterdam

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The whole place is pickled The people are pickles for sure And no-one knows if they've done more here Than they ever would do in a jar

Shouldve Kept My Eyes Shut

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[Verse 1] I should've kept my eyes shut But I had to go and peep But when you saw what I saw Well, it's hard just to roll back to sleep

Shouldve Kepy My Eyes Shut

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I should've kept my eyes shut But I had to go and peep But when you saw what I saw Well, it's hard just to roll back to sleep

The Slide

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When you're too old for the swings You tend to choose the slide And they never seem to warn you The slide's your final ride And when you're at the top of it

Something That You Said

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The perfect love song, it has no words, it only has death threats And you can tell, a classic ballad, by how threatening it gets So if you walk into your house, and she's cutting up your mother She's only trying to tell you that, she loves you like no other, No other, she loves you like no other

Song for Whoever

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I Love you from the bottom, of my pencil case I love you in the songs, I write and sing Love you because, you put me in the rightful place And I love the PRS checks, that you bring

The Sound Of North America

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Ginger Elvis Presley looked a fraction sad Roaming the whole town from bin to bin Well living on the streets wasn't all that bad Where no-one seemed to know that he was King

The Table

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[Verse 1] This table has four sturdy legs A heart of very near wild oak When others would have screamed out loud my friend This one never even spoke

Tattoo

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Sadness has filled a lonely place Before that there was just a hole At least now there's sadness on my face My lower lip has finally found its role

This Old Skin

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It was '96 in South Carolina That's the place and not the goddamn year Sittin' on the porch out at Bobby's place Just tuggin' on a Lukewarm beer

Tonight I Fancy Myself

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"Do you love me like you used to" he sighs "I love you twice as much" she replies They were on the train to Venice, where else? I think tonight I fancy myself

Tupperware Queen

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[Verse 1] This reign of plastic That replaced the reign of gold Couldn't have known that you Would feel so undersold

We Are Each Other

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There's no more little secrets we haven't yet disclosed We bore the living daylights of anyone too close And all our cards at Christmas are written to us both Count them up, who's got the most

When I'm 84

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Verse Queuing with the old folk There's an old man with a wicked smile Not through smug politeness He's doing it in st-yle, st-yle

When The Romance Is Dead

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[Verse 1] You’ll know when the romance is dead Your make up in a toolbox somewhere in the shed His face is unshaven, the grass overgrown From the shed to the bed is a web you call home

Window Shopping For Blinds

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[Verse] One day I'm loaded, next day I'm broke Spent all my money on whisky and coke Riding high 'till the rock hit the spoke

Woman In The Wall

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[Verse 1] He was just a social drinker but social every night He enjoyed a pint or two or three or four She was just a silent thinker, silent every night He'd enjoyed the thought of killing her before

Les Yeux Ouverts Open Eyes

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Ce souvenir je te le rends (This memory I'm giving back to you) Des souvenirs, tu sais j'en ai tellement (These memories, you know I have so many) Puisqu'on reva de jours errants

You Keep It All In

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You know your problem You keep it all in You know your problem You keep it all in

You Play Glockenspiel Ill Play Drums

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Verse There's a boy with a brace across his teeth White socks, tattooed underneath Bus tickets chitched up in his palm Stood there he's spinning a yarn

Your Father And I

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It was the middle of winter And I drove us in my car Well, the snow started fallin' So we stopped off at a bar

You're Only Jealous

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Verse: 1 Perhaps it was the holiday we spent abroad last year It could have been the wine we drank last night Possibly the palace needs a second coat of paint But that doesn't condone setting it alight