Las - Son Of A Gun guitar chord

heliocentric@breathe.com

February 4th 2001.  1.36pm

SON OF A GUN by THE LA'S

Written by Lee Mavers

From the album 'The La's' (Go! Discs, 1990)

Chords used:

Standard tuning (EADGBe)

          

C:  x32010

Bb: x1333x

F:  133211

Or alternatively you could tune your guitar down a tone to

DGCFAd

and use these shapes:

C:  xx0232

Bb  x32033 (Bbadd9)

F:  320033

C Bb (x4)

       C    Bb  C    

If you want

     Bb         C    Bb     C

I'll sell you a life story

Bb     C           Bb    C              Bb           C     Bb  C

About a man who's a loggerheads with his past all the time

Bb    C    Bb  C

He's alive

    Bb        C    Bb     C  Bb

and living in purgatory

         C        Bb         C

All he's doing is rooming in hotels

    Bb          C       Bb   C  

And scooping up lots of wine

          F      Bb     C      Bb

There was once a boy of life

    F      Bb      C      Bb

Who lived upon the knife

   F        Bb       C    Bb

He took his share of everywhere

       F     Bb     C      

But he never took a wife...

Bb     C    Bb  C

He was born

   Bb          C    Bb    C  Bb

To live like a mercenary

     C    Bb      C            Bb

Well personally I think that's fine

          C      Bb         C

If you're in the right mind

Bb     C Bb  C          Bb        C         Bb  C  Bb

He was bur - ned by the twentieth century

    C          Bb          C           Bb

Now he's doing time in the back of his mind

       C         Bb

He can hear them outside

       F    Bb     C     Bb

Better run, rabbit run

F     Bb     C    Bb

Run into the sun

F         Bb           C       Bb

Kick your heels in the killing fields

F   Bb     C

Run rabbit run

           Bb       C   Bb  

You're the son of a gun

C Bb (x8)

He was born to live like a mercenary

Well personally I think that's fine

If you're in the right mind.

F