Smiths - A Rush & A Push guitar tab

A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours

(Morrissey/Marr)

This piano song that opens up -Strangeways, Here We Come- is quite simple.

It is only three chords really. The intro can be played this way:

Dm Bb

E ---1---1---1---1-----------------||

B ---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-||

G ---2---2---2---2---3---3---3---3-||

D -0-------0---3-----3---3---3---3-||

A -----0-----------1-------1---3---||

E ---------------------1-----------||

That is basically how the piano plays the intro and possibly the rest of

the song. The lyrics without chords on top just go from Dm to Bb:

HELLO

i am the ghost of troubled joe hung by his pretty white neck

some eighteen months ago

i travelled to a mystical time zone but i missed my bed

so i soon came home, they said:

there is too much caffeine in your blood stream

and a lack of real spice in your life

i said:

leave me alone, because i~m alright, dad

just surprised to be on my own...

Eb Dm

ooh, but don~t mention love

Eb Dm

i~d hate the strain of the pain again

a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours

it has been before so i shall be again

and people who are uglier than you and i

they take what they need and leave

Eb Dm

ooh, but don~t mention love

Eb Dm

i~d hate the pain of the strain all over again

a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours

it has been before so why can~t it be now?

and people who are weaker than you and i

they take what they want from life

Eb Dm

ooh, but don~t mention love

Eb Dm

no, no- don~t mention love

a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours

your youth may be gone but you~re still a young man

so phone me, phone me, phone me

phone me, phone me, phone me

Eb Dm

ooh, i think i~m in love...

(I hope you have found this helpful. Bye-bye)