Peter Gabriel – The Barry Williams Show (Guitar)

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[Intro] N.C. Let's go [Verse]
Em             G5
One man at the window

Em          G       Gm
One girl at the bar

Em                      G
Saw that look of recognition

Em                          G
When they know just who you are

Em                G
I seen you on the tv

Em                 G
I seen you on that show

Em                  G
You make the people crazy

Em                    G
And then you let them go

Em
Before the show we calm them

Em
We sympathize, we care

C
And the hostile folk we keep apart

         B                 Em
'Til the red light says on air'

Em
Did you see our leather lovers

Em
All tied up to the chair

        C
Did you catch those child molesters

B                Em
No one else goes there
[Chorus]
C                      Am
What a show, the Barry Williams show

Am           G   D
What a show,

C             Am
Dysfunctional excess

   G               D
Is all it took for my success

    C                 Am
The greater pain that they endure

    G                 D
The more you know the show will scored

Em
It's showtime
G Em G Em D [Verse]
Em                      G
Got the reputation of a surgeon

Em                       Am
Cos they cannot feel the cut

Am               G
It looks so very simple

       Em           G
But it really is an art

Em                       G
They call our studio the hospital'

Em                     G     Am
Making money from the sick

Am            G
We let people be themselves

Em                G
There is no other trick

Em
My lover stole my girlfriend'

Em
I keep beating up my ex'

C
I want to kill my neighbor'

B                     Em
My daughter's selling sex'

Em
My s/m lover hurt me'

Em
My girl became a man'

C
I love my daughter's rapist

B                       Em
My life's gone down the pan'
[Chorus]
C                      Am
What a show, the Barry Williams show

Am      G     D
It’s my show

D
What a show

C             Am
Dysfunctional excess

   G               D
Is all it took for my success

C                             Am
And when the punches start to fly

 G                      D
The ratings always read so high

Em
It's showtime
G Em G Em D [Verse]
Em                   G
That girl has got no scruples'

Em                   Am
Not a wrinkle on her face

Am                             G
You would not believe the plot she conceived

Em                        G
So they'd let her take my place

Em                 G
Well, no man is an island

Em          G
No man is a sea

    C
But this display of emotion

C
Is all but drowning me
[Chorus]
       C     Am        G
What a show, oh what a show

D     C               Am       G      D
On my show, the Barry Williams show

Am      G
It's my show

Em     G
What a show

C             Am
Dysfunctional excess

   G               D
Is all it took for my success
[Verse]
C                  Am
The best tv you've ever seen

      Em                              D
Where people say the things that they really mean

  C               Am
I hear my name, I hear them roar

        G               D
For the one more time I take the floor

     C              Am
Just one more Barry Williams show

            G                  D
We're gonna take you where you want to go

Em
It's showtime
[Outro] G Em G Em D
Em
Come on down

Em
Come on down