Chords
The boy with the arab strap

Key: G

Introduction:

difficulty
very easy |||||
                    G  C  G  
G  
A mile and a half on a bus takes a long time
                                                                                                                                C  
The odour of old prison food takes a long time to pass you by
G  
Day upon day of this wandering gets you down
                                                                                                             C  
Nobody gives you a chance or a dollar in this old town
G  
Hovering silence from you is a giveaway
Squalor and smoke's not your style
C  
We better go
G  
Then I compare notes with your older sister
                                                                                                          C                                            D      G  
I am a lazy gett, she is as pure as the cold driven snow
G  
What did you learn from your time in the solitary
Cell of your mind?
                                                                                                  C  
There was noises, distractions from anything good
And the old prison food
G  
Colour my life with the chaos of trouble
Cause anything's better than posh isolation
C  
I missed the bus
You were laid on your back
                                                                          D  
With the boy from the arab strap
                                                                          G  
With the boy from the arab strap
 G  C  G  C  D  C  G)  
G  
It's something to speak of the way you are feeling
To crowds there assembled
                                                                                             C  
Do you ever feel you have gone too far?
G  
Everyone suffers in silence a burden
The man who drives minicabs down in Old Compton
          C  
The Asian man
With his love hate affair
                                                             D  
With his racist clientele
G  
A central location for you is a must as you stagger about making free with your lewd and
                             C  
lascivious boasts
G  
We know you are soft cause we've all seen you dancing
                                                                                                                                                     C  
We know you are hard cause we all saw you drinking from noon
Until noon again
                                                                                  D  
You're the boy with the filthy laugh
                                                                                G  
You're the boy with the arab strap
 G    C)  
G  
Strapped to the table with suits from the shelter shop
                                                                                                                                        C  
Comic celebrity takes a back seat as the cigarette catches
And sets off the smoke alarm
G  
What do you make of the cool set in London?
                                                                                                                                                     C  
You're constantly updating your hit parade of your ten biggest wanks
                                                                  D  
She's a waitress and she's got style
                                                                          G  
Sunday bathtime could take a while
             G-  
        C-  
        D-  
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