Artist: | Billy Bremner (English) |
User: | Roger Huxley |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: |
Performed by The Refreshments (Swedish) Written by Billy Bremner with verse 4 added by myself. The arrangement is mine too |
No Smoking
4 bar Opening rolling riff in A
A A A A
1. When I was young they told me it was cool.
A A E7 E7
Well times have changed and I’m the fool
A A
Two packs a day. Without a doubt
D7 D7
I'm truly hooked. I can't put it out.
A E7 A
Ain't gonna stop until I drop.
A A A A
2. Well I’ve had this habit for more than forty years
A A E7 E7
I'm feeling just fine, so don't shed me no tears.
A A
I oughta think about the money I could save
D D
The doctor's talking about an early grave.
A E7 A
Lungs as black as coal and I'm a lonesome soul.
Chorus
D7 D7
Well, we can't smoke here, can't smoke there.
A D7 D7
I can't smoke anywhere. It's getting tough. I ain't joking.
A F E7 A F E7 A
Signs everywhere sayin’ "no Smoking here
solo Repeat Chorus
A
3. Now it's sweeping right across the nation.
A E7 E7
Its poor ol' me in a non-smoking generation.
A
They got me standing on the balconies by kitchen fans.
D7
When I ask for a light, they say no chance.
A E7 A
I’m all alone in the smoking zone.
4. [A] Giving up's the toughest thing on earth
It makes me mad and concentrates my [E7] thirst [E7]
My [A] throat’s still dry and my money's spent
My [D] liver's gone where my lungs just went
and [A] I’m all alone [E7] at the end of the [A] bar.
Bridge
D A
Well an ashtrays as rare as a rocking horse.
D A
Everywhere I go, people slammin' their doors.
F A F E7
Everybody's after me. Soon there's no place left to be.
Repeat Chorus