Song: War baby
Artist: Tom Robinson
Album: War baby
Tabbed by DJ
3rd Jun 2015
Gmaj7 = 320002 B7sus4 = 797977 Em/G# = 4xxxxx
G6 = 320000 Dmaj7 = x57675 Em/A = x0xxxx
Em7 = 075700 Em = 0xxxxx Em/B = x2xxxx
Dmaj7sus2 = x57655 Em/F# = 2xxxxx Em/C = x3xxxx
D#maj7sus2 = x68766 Em/G = 3xxxxx Em/C# = x4xxxx
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[Intro]
(Gmaj7) (G6) (Gmaj7) (G6)
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Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
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[Verse 1]
B7sus4
Only the very young, and the very beautiful can be so aloof,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
Hanging out with the boys, all swagger and poise,
Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6
I don't even care what other people are there,
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
I just stare, and stare, and stare!
[Verse 2]
B7sus4
I see your shadow in the swimming pool,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
I see your face in the shaving mirror,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
Time, and time, and time a - gain,
Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6
I follow your foot steps, so quietly up the backstairs,
Em7
And I hope, and I pray,
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
You ain't never gonna find me there!
[Verse 3]
B7sus4
Smooth skin and tenderness, long ago on a dark night,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
Wish I could ...see you once a - gain,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
Just to re - member that it was true,
Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6
I want to be still be - side you, quiet and still be - side you,
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
Listening to your breathing, and feeling your warmth a - gain!
[Chorus]
B7sus4 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
War baby, you were a war--- baby,
Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6 Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G#
This means war, baby, ...I'm scared, so scared,
Em/A Em/B Em/C Em/C#
Of what - ever it is you keep putting me through!
[Verse 4]
B7sus4
I don't think I could stand another ten years of this fighting,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
All this stabbing and wounding, only getting my own back,
Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6
I don't want to batter you to your feet and knees and elbows,
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
When I'm kneeling by the candle at the foot of my own bed!
[Verse 5]
B7sus4
Corresponding disasters ...every night on the TV,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmajsus2 Dmaj7
Sickening re - ality keeps gripping me in its guts,
Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6
All my friends talk and joke, and laugh about Arma - geddon,
Em7
But, like a nightmare,
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
It's still waiting there at the end of each and every day!
[Chorus]
B7sus4 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
War baby, you were a war--- baby,
Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6 Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G#
This means war, baby, ...I'm scared, so scared,
Em/A Em/B Em/C Em/C#
Of what - ever it is you keep putting me through!
[Sax Break]
B7sus4 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
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Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6 Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G# Em/A Em/B Em/C Em/C#
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 6]
B7sus4
I don't think I could stand another ten years of this fighting,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
Always stabbing and wounding, only getting my own back,
Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6
Later that seem evening, when we were out in the car talking,
Em7
I suddenly wondered...
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
Who the hell it was we were trying to fool?
[Verse 7]
B7sus4
'Cause you were the first one ...I ever wanted,
Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
And it's ...you I come home to at the end of every day,
Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6
Like a mother-sucking baby, de - manding and so helpless,
Em7 Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2
A little old balding man, all wrinkles and bulging eyes!
[Chorus]
B7sus4 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
War baby, ...war--- baby,
Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6 Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G#
This means war, baby, ...I'm scared, so scared,
Em/A Em/B Em/C Em/C#
Of what - ever it is you keep putting me through!
[Coda]
B7sus4 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Dmaj7
You were a war baby, talking about the Third World War---, baby,
Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6
| / / / / | War---, baby!
Em Em/F# Em/G Em/G# Em/A Em/B Dmaj7sus2 D#maj7sus2 B7sus4
...So scared!(...scared, scared, scared!)
