The Jam - Saturdays Kids guitar tab

Transcribed by Shaun Hand,

3rd October 2000, 9.43pm

heliocentric@breathe.com

SATURDAY'S KIDS

(Weller)

From the LP 'Setting Sons'

Chords used:

G: 355433 A: 577655

C: x3555x F: 133211

D: x5777x Gsus4: xx5533

E: 022100

C#m: x46654

N.C. (Riff 1 x4)

G C D (x2)

la,la,la,la...

G C D

Saturday's boys live life with insults,

G C D

Drink lots of beer and wait for half-time results.

E C#m

Afternoon tea in the lite-a-bite,

A D

Chat up the girls, they dig it!

G C D

Saturday's girls work in Tesco's and Woolworths,

G C D

Wear chep perfume cos it's all they can afford.

E C#m

Got to discos they drink Babycham,

A D

Talk to Jan - in bingo accents.

G C D (x2)

La la la...

G C D

Saturday's kids play on one arm bandits,

G C D

They never win, but that's not the point is it?

E C#m

Get themselves a paper when their pints go flat,

A D

How about that? - Far out, man!

G C D

Their mums and dads smoke Capstan non-filters,

G C D

Wallpaper lives cos they all die of cancer,

E C#m

What goes on? - what goes wrong?

A D

Save up their money for a holiday,

A D

To Selsey Bill or Bracklesham Bay,

A D

Think about the future - when they'll settle down

A D

Marry the girl next door - with one on the way.

C

These are the real creatures that time has forgot,

D

Not given a thought.

E F G

It's the system - hate the system - what's the syste - m?

G C D (x4)

Oh.

G Gsus4 (x4)

G Gsus4 G Gsus4

Saturday's kids live in council houses, wear V-neck shirts and baggy trousers,

G C D G C D

Saturday's kids live in council houses, wear V-neck shirts and baggy trousers.

G C D (x2)

E C#m

Drive Cortina's fur trimmed dashboard,

A D

Stains on the seats - in the back of course!

G C D (x8)

la, la, la

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