Belle and Sebastian – The Boy With The Arab Strap (Ukulele)

G
A mile and a half on a bus takes a long time, The odour of old prison food 

                     C 
takes a long time to pass you by

G
Day upon day of this wandering gets you down, nobody gives you a chance or a 

          C
dollar in this old town

G
Hovering silence from you is a giveaway, squalor and smoke's not your style

                         C
I don't like this place, We better go

G                                                                            
Then I compare notes with your older sister, I am a lazy get, she is as pure 

       C
as the cold driven snow

G
What did you learn from your time in the solitary cell of your mind?

                                    C
There was noises, distractions from anything good 

C
and the old prison food

G
Colour my life with the chaos of trouble

G
Cause anything's better than posh isolation, 

C
I missed the bus, 

C
You were laid on your back

                           F
With the boy with the arab strap

                           G
With the boy from the arab strap

     G
It's something to speak of the way you are feeling to crowds there assembled

                          C
Do you ever feel you have gone too far?

G
Everyone suffers in silence a burden, the man who drives minicabs down in Old Compton

    C                                                   
The Asian man

                                           F
With his love/hate affair with his racist clientele

  G
A central location for you is a must as you stagger about making free with 

              C
your lewd and lascivious boasts

   G
We all know you are soft because we've all seen you dancing

   G                                                       C
We know you are hard because we all saw you drinking from noon until noon again

                               F
You're the boy with the filthy laugh

                             G
You're the boy with the arab strap

G
Strapped to the table with suits from the shelter shop

                                         C  
Comic celebrity takes a back seat as the cigarette catches 

G
What do you make of the cool set in London?

                                                   C
You're constantly updating your hit parade of your ten biggest wanks

                               F
She's a waitress and she's got style

                                   G
Sunday bathtime could take a while