Genesis – Blood On The Rooftops (Guitar)

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Chords

[Verse 1]
G/E      Em9      Em9/B   Am7       C/D       D/G
Dark and grey, an English film, the Wednesday Play

   E      B/F#      Emaj7    Amaj7
We always watch the Queen on Christmas Day

A/D   D   D/G
Won't you stay?
[Link 1]
  Dmaj7   Ab/Db    Emaj7   Bb/Eb    A        D4/C             -
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[Verse 2]
G/E         Em9      Em9/B       Am7     C/D          D/G
Though your eyes see shipwrecked sailors you're still dry

    E         B/F#        Emaj7       Amaj7
The outlook's fine though Wales might have some rain

A/D   D  D/G
Saved a-gain
[Instrumental Interlude] (7/4)
  Amaj7           Am7             Esus2           Emaj7
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  Amaj7           Am7             Cmaj7b5/E
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[Chorus 1]
Em                D6      Bm7  Aadd2                 Gmaj9
  Let's skip the news boy        (I'll make some tea)

Em                   D6      Bm7    Aadd2          Gmaj9
  The arabs and the jews boy        (too much for me)

Em               D6        Bm7   Aadd2               Gmaj9
  They get me confused boy      (puts me off to sleep)

          F#m7    Gmaj9  F#m7
And the thing I hate--Oh Lord!

G#m7              C#m7                 E                     Em7
  Is staying up late, to watch some debate, on some nation's fate
[Link 2]
 (Em7)         A9           Em7          A9           Em9          Em9
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[Verse 3]
G/E   Em9     Em9/B Am7     C/D        D/G
Hypnotised by Batman, Tarzan, still surprised!

       E       B/F#    Emaj7   Amaj7
You've won the West in time to be our guest

A/D  D    D/G
Name your prize!
[Link 3]
  Dmaj7   Ab/Db    Emaj7   Bb/Eb    A        D4/C             -
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[Verse 4]
G/E     Em9     Em9/B    Am7     C/D          D/G
Drop of wine, a glass of beer dear what's the time?

    E            B/F#    Emaj7    Amaj7
The grime on the Tyne is mine all mine all mine

A/D   D     D/G
  Five past nine
[Instrumental Interlude] (7/4)
  Amaj7           Am7             Cmaj7b5/E
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[Chorus 2]
Em             D6      Bm7  Aadd2             Gmaj9
  Blood on the rooftops,     Venice in the Spring

Em                     D6     Bm7  Aadd2           Gmaj9
  The Streets of San Francisco,      a word from Peking

Em                D6      Bm7      Aadd2          Gmaj9
  The trouble was started,    by a young Errol Flynn

       F#m7   Gmaj9  F#m7
Better in my day--Oh Lord!

G#m7               C#m7                     E               Em
  For when we got bored, we'd have a world war, happy but poor

                   D6     Bm7  Aadd2                     Gmaj9
So let's skip the news boy      (I'll go and make that tea)

Em               D6     Bm7  Aadd2          Gmaj9
  Blood on the rooftops       (too much for me)

Em                D6          Bm7              Aadd2     Gmaj9
  When old Mother Goose stops     and they're out for 23

         F#m7     Gmaj9        F#m7
Then the rain at Lords stopped play

G#m7              C#m7                E      Em7
 Seems Helen of Troy has found a new face again
[Outro]
 (Em7)         A9           Em7          A9
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  Em9          Em9          Em9          Em9
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