Misc Musicals – Ride The Cyclone - Noels Lament (Guitar)

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[Intro]
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In my life I was Noel Gruber who worked at Taco Bell in Uranium City Saskatchewan

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But in my dreams I played a different role 

      E7                Am     F    E7    N.C. 
I was Monique Gibeau in postwar France

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A hooker with a heart of black charcoal
[Verse 1]
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I write poems to burn by fire light

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Drink champagne and guzzle gin

                            E7
Good girls call me The Town Bicycle

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Don’t knock it till you’ve tried my life of sin
[Verse 2]
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Oh Claude, my pimp, knows never mess with me

                              Am
Last prick did that faded quick to black

                             E7
I have no idea where to find him officers

    E7
But if you do please mention that I’d

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like to have returned the pretty knife

                              Am
That I stuck ten times in his back 
[Chorus 1]
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For I sing songs until the break of dawn

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I embrace a new man every night

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My life’s one never ending carnival

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A world of boozy-floozy flashing light

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I want to be that fucked up girl
[Interlude] E7 Am E7 Am [Verse 3]
                                   E7
He said, I think I am in love with you

                                  Am
I've heard that lie a million times before

                            E7
Oh tonight I give into the fantasy

                                    Am
Take love when you can when you're a whore
[Chorus 2]
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For I sing songs until the break of dawn

   E7                     Am
I embrace a new man every night

               Dm          Am
My life’s one never ending carnival

    B7                           E7
A world of boozy-floozy flashing light

          Am        F    E7  Am
I want to be that fucked up girl
[Verse 4]
                        E7
So now I sell my love for opium

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In some rat infested Chinese dive

                                    E7
At night I burn myself with cigarettes 

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Just to somehow prove I'm still alive
[Verse 5]
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Eight months later, I catch typhoid flu

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Kicked out I see the ugly light of day

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Dying in an alley a priest kneels down to me
[Dialogue] [Chorus 3]
          Dm             Am
For I sing songs until the break of dawn

   E7                     Am
I embrace a new man every night

               Dm          Am
my life’s one never ending carnival

    B7                           E7
A world of boozy-floozy flashing light

          Dm             Am
For I sing songs until the break of dawn

   E7                     Am
I embrace a new man everynight

               Dm          Am
My life’s one never ending carnival

    B7                           E7
A world of boozy-floozy flashing light

          Am        F    E  Am
I want to be that fucked up girl
N.C. Wanna be that fucked up girl
E7
Broken heart, a flask of gin

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Tattooed with a safety pin

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Teeth all stained with nicotine

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Running nylons, shattered dream

E7
Super crusty holy terror

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Wild eyes and black mascara

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Broken heart a flask of gin

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Tattooed with a safety pin

E7
Teeth all stained with nicotine

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Running nylons shattered dream

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Super crusty holy terror

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Wild eyes and black mascara
[Outro]
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If I could have just one dream 
If he could have just one dream
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I'd be that fucked up girl 
N.C. Hey