Barenaked Ladies – Skinhead (Ukulele)

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SONG: Skinhead BAND: Barenaked Ladies ALBUM: 2005 Ladies Room Christmas Package C#m7:446454 F#:244322 F#m:244222 E:022100 C#m:446654 D:x00232

Bm:224432
harmonic7: (lay index finger lightly across all six strings at the 7th fret)

Harmonic5: (like Harmonic7, but at the 5th fret) ____________________________________________________________ Verses: Harmonic7

C#m7         F#
Skinhead, oh skinhead

F#m                     E
Skinhead with a hearing aid

C#m7         F#
Skinhead, oh skinhead

F#m                     E
Skinhead with a hearing aid

C#m7         F#
Skinhead, oh skinhead

F#m                E
No, he's not a neo-Nazi

C#m7         F#
Skinhead, oh skinhead

F#m                  E
He just dresses that way

        C#m7                    F#
He just wants to keep me afraid

              C#m                    F#
That he could kill me with one swift kick

             F#m
To a special part of the brain

               E
Skinhead with a hearing aid

Harmonic5 Harmonic7 Harmonic5 Bridge:

C#m            F#                D
    There were times, there were times

                     Bm                C#m
When I was scared of walking home from school

           F#                Bm (single strum)
There were times, there were times

Bm (single strum) When I'd thought he'd scowl at me

    D (single strum)D (single strum)
And yell at me and show me the

F#m                E
Bottoms of his Doc Martens

Notes: Sometimes, instead of playing the E major chord, Ed plays this little fill:

e|------------------|
B|------------------|
G|-------0-1-0-1-0--|
D|-0-0h2---0---0-0--|
A|-0-0--------------|
E|------------------|

That's it.