The Sex Pistols - Belsen Was A Gas guitar tab

Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 12:27:35 -0400 (EDT)

From: Glen Norman Pavan

artist: Sex Pistols

title: Belsen Was a Gas

album: The Great Rock and Roll Swindle

tuning: standard

There are two differing versions of this tune, the Sex Pistols version

with Johnny Rotten and the one with Ronald Biggs. Here's both.

F-G means slide up from the F to the G

w/ Johnny Rotten

intro: D C D Eb D C G x2

D C D Eb

Belsen was a gas I heard the other day

D C G

In the open graves where the jews all lay

D C D Eb

Life is fun and I wish you were here

D C G

They wrote on postcards to those held dear

chorus (played twice)

C G C G C G F-G F-G

oh dear oh dear oh dear

second verse

Sergeant majors on the march

Wash their bodies in the starch

See them all die one by one

Guess it's dead guess it's glad

chorus (twice)

so bad so bad so bad

intro

repeat first verse

outro: ad lib chorus

with Ronald Biggs:

ok, this time for real Belsen was a gasser

intro: D C Bb C D C G x2

verse

D C Bb C

Belsen was a gas I heard the other day

D C G

In the open graves where the jews all lay

D C Bb C

Life is fun and I wish you were here

D C G

They wrote on postcards to those held dear

chorus (same as other version)

second verse

Dentists search their teeth for gold

Frisk the jews for bank notes rolled

when they found out what they got

Line them up and shoot the lot

chorus

kill a man be a man kill a man

intro

third verse

Wonder what the jews would say

If I told them where Boorman was today

Would they start a vendetta

you'd better ask Ernie Ledbetter

chorus

Ledbetter Ledbetter Ledbetter

outro: ad lib chorus

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