I Am Kloot – The Great Escape (Ukulele)
Key
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By: dr_silverrose
Originally performed by John Bramwell, the I Am Kloot lead guitar/vocalist, under the
name Johnny Dangerously. Can be found on I Am Kloot's Album "B", a B-side compilation
album, released 2009. Featured prominently in the 2003 BBC Comedy Early Doors, Series 2,
Episode 5.
This is a very simple song with standard chords and strumming, easy to learn, fun to
sing and play.
Standard tuning
D x32010
Am xx0231
D 320033
C xx3211
Capo 4
D Am D D You were born with football boots and a suntan complexion C Am D You once thought that on reflection, I've really got it made D Am D D You shrugged and smiled and made the usual excuses C Am D D You suffered small abuses, and settled for their pay C Am D D You want to learn to live like an aristocrat C Am D But your girlfriend's earrings well they soon put pay to that C Am D D and if the whole world came crashing, down around your ears C Am D You could dream of stucco wallpaper and crystal chandeliers D Am D D You cashed in your cards, you want to buy some glamour C Am D You really are enamoured, with that new soap on a rope D Am D D A thousand fat comedians came in disguised as clerics C Am D They got you in hysterics, and walked off with your soul C Am D D and with that cheapskate, royalty, you get your flag and wave C Am D Well I've seen you on TV grinning at the motorcade
C Am D
D Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, we'll string them up like drapes C Am D And I'll ride around like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape D Am D D You hung around too long, your mother read your letters C Am D You grinned like a go-getter, come and got and gone D Am D D The time the morning slips, blends into the wallpaper C Am D and once you could escape her, but where did you go wrong C Am D D and your father's at the factory that makes money selling guns C Am D That fought the wars that spent the lives of other peoples sons
C Am D
D Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, we'll string them up like drapes C Am D And I'll ride around like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape D Am D D You were born with football boots and a suntan complexion C Am D D You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made C Am D D You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made
C Am D
D
You once thought that on reflection, oh yeah, I've really got it made