Key: C
Introduction:
Cm
Jacqueline was seventeen, working on a desk
G# A#
When Ivor peered above her spectacle
A#7
Forgot that he had wrecked a girl
Cm G# A#
Sometime these eyes forget the face they're peering from
A#7
When the face they peer upon
G Cm
Well you know that face as I do
G#
And how in the return of the gaze
A# Cm
She can return you the face that you're staring from
x2
Cm A# G
It's always better on holiday
Cm D# A
So much better on holiday
Cm A# G Cm D# A
That's why we only work when we need the money
x2
Cm
Gregor was down again
G#
Said, 'Come on, kick me again'
A# A#7
Said, 'I'm so drunk I don't mind if you kill me'
Cm G#
Come on you gutless
A#
Yeah, I'm alive
A#7
I'm alive
G Cm
I'm alive and how I know it
G# A# Cm
But for chips, and for freedom I could die
Riff 2 (x1)