Morrissey – Lifeguard On Duty (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro] G D Am (x2) G C [Verse 1]
    Bm                   C
The work you chose has a practical vein

    Bm               C         D
But I read much more into your name

G         C
Lifeguard

  Bm                          C
Patrolling the length and the breadth of your pool

  Bm                      C
I call your name from the vestibule

D
Lifeguard
[Chorus]
G          D            Am
Lifeguard, save me from life

C            G
Save me from life

D            Am
Save me from life

C             G            D
Save from the ails and the ills

         Am
And from other things
G C [Verse 2]
    Bm                      C
The centre of the town is a dangerous zone

Bm                       C           D
Drenched in phlegm every time that I come home
[Chorus]
G          D            Am
Lifeguard, save me from life

C            G
Save me from life

D            Am
Save me from life

C             G            D
Save from the ails and the ills

         Am
And from other things
[Bridge]
Bm
Love me, oh help me oh

G           Bm         C  D
Oh help me, ah help me oh

G          D             Am
Lifeguard, guard me from life

G          D             Am
Lifeguard, guard me from life
[Verse 3]
    Bm                   C
The last bus home is the dangerous one

  Bm                      C
A baseball bat across the collarbone

D
Lifeguard
[Chorus]
G          D            Am
Lifeguard, save me from life

C            G
Save me from life

D            Am
Save me from life

C                                   G
'Cause it's the only life I'll ever have

           D               Am
I'm always good, I'm never bad

         C              G
And I've always been so kind

       D                         Am
To the sick and to the partially blind

C            G
Save me from life
G D Am C G