Hey, I wasnt really happy with the other version, Please rate, this is my first tab.
Verse: Listen to a youtube video to learn the pattern.
Also, try to keep the top B and E string open when strumming,
sounds better :)
For the Chorus:
Aadd9 - 077600
F#m x44200
Bmadd11 099700
E7 020100 or 076700
D xx0230
E 022100
A
I was sipping on a Whiskey when I got the call
F#m
Yeah my friend Lex was lying in the hospital
Bm
She'd been pretty sick for about half a year
E
But it seems liked this time the end was drawing near
A
So dropped my plans and jumped the next London train
F#m
I found her laid up and in a lot of pain
Bm
Her eyes met mine and then I understood
E E7
That the weather forecast wasn't looking too good
A
So I sat and spun her stories for a little while
F#m
Tried to raise her mood and tried to raise a smile
Bm Bm
But she silenced all my rambling with a shake of her head
E E7
Drew me close and listen this is what she said now
Aadd9 F#m Bmadd11
"You'll live to dance another day,
E7
it's just now you'll have to dance, for the two of us,
Aadd9 F#m Bmadd11
so stop looking so damn depressed
D
and sing with all your heart
E
that the Queen is dead"
A
Yeah she told me she was sick of all the hospital food
F#m
And of doctors, distant relatives, draining her blood
Bm
She said "I know I'm dying, but I'm not finished just yet,
E E7
I am dying for a drink and for a cigarette"
A
So we hatched a plan to book ourselves a cheap hotel
F#m
In the centre of the City and to raise some Hell
Bm Bm E
Lay waste to all the clubs and then when everyone else is long asleep
E7
We know we're good and done
Aadd9 F#m Bmadd11
"You'll live to dance another day,
E7
it's just now you'll have to dance, for the two of us,
Aadd9 F#m Bmadd11
so stop looking so damn depressed
D
and sing with all your heart
E D F#m E
that the Queen is dead__________
D F#m E
And South London's not the same anymore
D F#m E
The Queen is dead,
D F#m E
and the last of the great has finally gone to bed
A
Well I was working on some words when Sarah called me up
F#m
She said that Lex had gone asleep and wasn't waking up
Bm
And even though I knew that there was nothing to be done
E E7
I felt bad for not being there and now, well, she was gone
A
So I tried to think what Lex would want me to do
F#m
At times like this when I was feeling blue
Bm
So I gathered up some friends to spread the sad sad news
E E7
And we headed to the City for a drink or two
And we sang
Aadd9 F#m Bmadd11
"You'll live to dance another day,
E7
it's just now you'll have to dance, for the two of us,
Aadd9 F#m Bmadd11
so stop looking so damn depressed
D
and sing with all your heart
E D
long live the Queen"
