Edwyn Collins

Edwyn Collins - Campaign For Real Rock guitar tab

The Campaign for Real Rock

by EDWYN COLLINS

INTRO

Abm Abm Gb6 Eb

Abm Abm Gb6 Eb

1st VERSET

Abm

Don't try so hard to be different

Abm

The cracks are beginning to show

Gb6

You drift like a cloud through the festival crowd

Eb

In a frock coat from Saville Row

Abm

You've just been an all-night party

Abm

Where I have to admit it takes pluck

Gb6

To go out on the floor and proclaim "What a bore"

Eb

In a T-shirt that reads "Disco Sucks"

Abm

Yes, here he comes, the not-so-young

Abm

Pretender to the Throne

Gb6

He's singing "Rag, Momma, Rag"

Eb

Won't you give that poor dog a bone?

Abm

And he's wondering why we can't connect

Abm

When he's sworn to us that he's totally wrecked

Gb6

On the rustic charm that he affects

Eb

On a public schoolboy whim

Abm

With a raggle taggle plastic gypsy

Abm

Robert Zimmerframe

Gb6

With a synthesized accordian

Eb

A-scramblin' up my brain

Abm

With a fiddle-dee-dee a fiddle on high

Abm

Excuse me folks while I kiss the sky

Gb6

Or at any rate give it one more try

Eb

before I

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die

Eb

before I

SOLO

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die

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Abm Abm Gb6 Eb

2nd VERSET

Abm

The overrated hit the stage

Abm

Overpaid and over here

Gb6

And their idea of counter-culture's

Eb

Momma's charge account at Sears

Abm

And they're wondering why we can't connect

Abm

With the ritual of the trashed guitar

Gb6

One more paltry empty gesture

Eb

The ashes of a burned out star

Abm

Yes here they come, both old and young

Abm

A contact low or high

Gb6

The gathering of the tribes descending

Eb

Vultures from a caustic sky

Abm

The rotting carcase of July

Abm

An ugly sun hung out to dry

Gb6

You gorgeous hippy dreams are dying

Eb

Your frazzled brains are putrifying

Abm

Repackaged, sold and sanitizied

Abm

The devil's music exorcised

Gb6

You live, you die, you lie, you lie, you

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die perpetuate the

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lie

Abm

perpetuate the

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lie

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perpetuate the

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lie

Abm

Just to perpetuate the

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lie

Eb

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Yes yes yes it's the summer festival the truly detestable summer festival

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Yes yes yes it's the summer festival the truly detestable summer festival

...etc

IMPROVISATION : B

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