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Snookeroo – Ringo Starr
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Ringo Starr
Snookeroo (1974)
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
From: "Goodnight Vienna"
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capo: 1st fret
play: D
key: Eb
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CHORDS
E-A-D-G-B-e
E/G# 4-x-2-1-0-0
A/C# x-4-2-2-2-0
G/B x-2-0-0-0-3
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INTRO
One, two, three, four
| D | A | D | A |
VERSE
D A
I was born in the north of England
Bm G
I was raised in a working town
D A
I broke all the rules when I went to school
Bm E/G#
But the teacher's couldn't pin me down
BRIDGE
A D
I tried to make my parents proud
F# Bm
By adapting the social powers
D A
Oh, pigs will fly and the Earth will fry
G E/G#
When they get me doing honest hours
CHORUS
Bm E A D
Snookeroo, Snookeroo, daddy's going on the booze
Bm E A G/B A/C#
Mother used to cut my hair and sister used to make the news
Bm G
Well, it was two rooms up and two rooms down
E/G# A
We were sentenced by the wrecking crane
D A/C# Bm A
Oh, I was born on the eve of Halloween
Bm E A C G/B | A | % |
And Snookeroo, Snookeroo, Snookeroo's my name (break)
VERSE
D A
I need someone to cook for me
Bm G
And turn me lose at night
D A
I could spend my life with a factory girl
Bm E/G#
'Cause a factory girl's my type
BRIDGE
A D
I hear them gossip on the street
F# Bm
Most of what they say is true
D A
Oh, don't you know that I hear them say
G E/G#
"There goes that lazy, no good Snookeroo"
CHORUS
Bm E A D
Snookeroo, Snookeroo, daddy's going on the booze
Bm E A G/B A/C#
Mother used to cut my hair and sister used to make the news
Bm G
Well, it was two rooms up and two rooms down
E/G# A
We were sentenced by the wrecking crane
D A/C# Bm A
Oh, I was born on the eve of Halloween
Bm E A C G/B | A | % |
And Snookeroo, Snookeroo, Snookeroo's my name (Snooke – roo)
(break)
SOLO (= verse + bridge)
| D | A | Bm | G |
| D | A | Bm | E/G# |
| A | D | F# | Bm |
| D | A | G | E/G# |
CHORUS
Bm E A D
Snookeroo, Snookeroo, daddy's going on the booze
Bm E A G/B A/C#
Mother used to cut my hair and sister used to make the news
Bm G
Well, it was two rooms up and two rooms down
E/G# A
We were sentenced by the wrecking crane
D A/C# Bm A
Oh, I was born on the eve of Halloween
CODA
Bm E
And Snookeroo, Snookeroo
Bm E
Snookeroo, Snookeroo
Bm E A C G/B | A
Snookeroo, Snookeroo, Snookeroo's my name (break)
