THE BUSY GIRL BUYS BEAUTY Tabbed by Tcoldsteel One of my favourite Billy Bragg songs. LITTLE DISTORTION (maybe overdrive) & DELAY (3+) or echo. Heavy on the treble and turned up LOUD. Tuning: standard Open chords with picking on bass note at chord changes. Like all Billy’s early songs of palm-muting. CAPO 3!!! Intro: G G D C G The busy girl buys beauty C G D And the pretty girl buys style. C G Am C And the simple girl buys what she’s told to buy. Em C And sees her world D Through the brightly lit eyes D Of the glossy romance of fashion Where she can learn... D Em C D Top tips for the gas cook D Em C D Successful secrets of a sexual kind D Em C D The daily drill for beautiful hair NC And the truth about pain GGCC GGCC GGCC D Em D What was Anna Ford wearing? Em D What did Angela Rippon say? C What will you do Em When you wake up one morning D To find that God's made you plain In a beautiful person's world? And all those quick recipes Have let you down And you're 20 & a1/2 and not yet engaged Will you go look for the boy who says D I love you let's get married and have kids The busy girl buys beauty The pretty girl buys style And the simple girl buys What she's told to buy Through the brightly lit eyes Of the glossy romance of fashion Where she can learn... Top tips for the gas cook Successful secrets of a sexual kind The daily drill for beautiful hair In a mail order paradise... Please rate. Any suggestions are welcome. Can anyone work out ‘lover’s town revisited’? Also what is that beaten up, brown guitar that billy played in his early days?
