Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
Chords:
F#5 X91111XX
C#5 X466XX or 91111XXX
B5 799XXX or X244XX
G#5 466XXX
Intro: F#5 C#5 F#5 C#5 (only keyboards and lead guitar)
Verse 1: (rhythm guitar enters)
F#5
Make me a deal and make it straight
C#5
All signed and sealed, I'll take it
F#5
To Robert E. Lee I'll show it
C#5
I hope and pray he don't blow it 'cause
B5
We've been around a long time
G#5 (once) C#5 (once)
Just try to try, just try to make the big time
Verse 2:
F#5
Take me on a roller coaster
C#5
Take me for an airplane ride
F#5
Take me for a six-day wonder but don't you
C#5
Don't you throw my pride aside besides
B5
What's real and make believe
G#5 C#5
Baby Jane's in Acapulco, we are flyin' down to Rio
Solo: F#5 C#5 F#5 C#5 B5 G#5 C#5
Verse 3:
F#5
Throw me a line I'm sinking fast
C#5
Clutching at straws can't make it
F#5
Havana sound we're trying
C#5
A hard edge a hipster jiving oh
B5
Last picture shows down the drive-in
G#5
You're so sheer, you're so chic
C#5
Teenage rebel of the week
Verse 4:
F#5
Flavours of the mountain streamline
C#5
Midnight blue casino floors
F#5
Dance the cha-cha through till sunrise
C#5
Opens up exclusive doors oh wow!
B5
Just like flamingos look the same
G#5 C#5
So me and you, just we two, got to search for something new
C#5 C#5 C#5 (play once each chords)
F#5 C#5 x6 (play once each chords)
F#5 C#5
Verse 5:
F#5
Far beyond the pale horizon
C#5
Some place near the desert strand
F#5
Where my Studebaker takes me
C#5
That's where I'll make my stand but wait
B5
Can't you see that Holzer mane?
G#5
What's her name? Virginia Plain
