Song: The word girl (Flesh and blood)
Artist: Scritti Politti
Composers: Green Gartside & David Gamson
Album: Cupid & psyche
Tabbed by: DJ
29th April 2014
CAPO: 2nd fret (sounds in the key of B)
Original recording is very slightly sharp of concert pitch
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
A = x02220 Bm = x24432 F = 133211
Amaj7 = x02120 G = 320003 A# = x13331
D = xx0232 G7/F = 120001 Dm7 = xx0211
E7sus4 = 020200 C = x32010 D# = xx5343
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[Intro]
A Amaj7 D E7sus4
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Bm G G7/F
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[Verse 1]
A Amaj7 D E7sus4
To do what I should do, to long for you to hear,
Bm G G7/F
Open up my heart, and watch her name ap - pear,
A Amaj7 D E7sus4
A word for you to use, a girl without a cause,
Bm G G7/F
A name for what you lose, when it was never yours,
C G
Oh---, you! Doo'n, doo'n, doo!
[Chorus]
D A
The first time, baby, that I came to you,
Bm G
Oh, I'd do things that you want me to,
D A
The second time, baby, that I came to you,
F G
Oh, you found... my love for you,
D A
The third time, baby, that I came to you,
Bm G
Oh--, hoh--, hoh---, ...I knew,
D A
The last time, baby, that I came to you,
A# C D
Oh, how your flesh and blood became the word!
[Verse 2]
A Amaj7 D E7sus4
The name the girl out - grew, the girl was never real,
Bm G G7/F
She stands for your abuse, that girl is no i - deal,
A Amaj7 D E7sus4
It's a word for what you do, in a world of broken rules,
Bm G G7/F
She found a place for you ...a - long her chain of fools,
C G
Oh---, you! Doo'n, doo'n, doo!
[Chorus]
D A
The first time, baby, that I came to you,
Bm G
Oh, I'd do things that you want me to,
D A
The second time, baby, that I came to you,
F G
Oh, you found... my love for you,
D A
The third time, baby, that I came to you,
Bm G
Oh--, hoh--, hoh---, ...I knew,
D A
The last time, baby, that I came to you,
A# C D
Oh, how your flesh and blood became the word!
[Coda]
Dm7 G D# F
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Dm7 G D# F Dm7
Oh, how... you're flesh and blood,
G D# F Dm7
Oh, how... you're flesh and blood,
G D# F Dm7
Oh, how... you're flesh and blood,
G D# F Dm7
Oh, how... you're flesh and blood!
[Suggestion for ending]
Dm7 G D# F G
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