Ringo Starr – Snookeroo (Guitar)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Elton John/Bernie Taupin From: "Goodnight Vienna" (1974) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard --------------------------------------------------------------------------- capo: 1st fret play: D key: Eb --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS
          E-A-D-G-B-e
E/G#      4-x-2-1-0-0
A/C#      x-4-2-2-2-0
G/B       x-2-0-0-0-3
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] One, two, three, four | D | A | D | A | [Verse]
D                  A
 I was born in the north of England

      Bm                  G
I was raised in a working town

  D                        A
I broke all the rules when I went to school

        Bm                        E/G#
But the teacher's couldn't pin me down
[Bridge]
A                   D
 I tried to make my parents proud

    F#                 Bm
By adapting the social powers

    D                     A
Oh, pigs will fly and the Earth will fry

          G                   E/G#
When they get me doing honest hours
[Chorus]
Bm          E         A              D
 Snookeroo, Snookeroo, daddy's going on the booze

Bm                    E        A              G/B      A/C#
Mother used to cut my hair and sister used to make the news

             Bm               G
Well, it was two rooms up and two rooms down

        E/G#                      A
We were sentenced by the wrecking crane

          D           A/C#   Bm   A
Oh, I was born on the eve of Halloween

   Bm          E          A                    C G/B | A | % | 
And Snookeroo, Snookeroo, Snookeroo's my name  (break)
[Verse]
D                  A
 I need someone to cook for me

    Bm              G
And turn me lose at night

D                            A
I could spend my life with a factory girl

         Bm                E/G#
'Cause a factory girl's my type
[Bridge]
A                   D
 I hear them gossip on the street

F#                       Bm
Most of what they say is true

    D                     A
Oh, don't you know that I hear them say

                 G                   E/G#
"There goes that lazy, no good Snookeroo"
[Chorus]
Bm          E         A              D
 Snookeroo, Snookeroo, daddy's going on the booze

Bm                    E        A              G/B      A/C#
Mother used to cut my hair and sister used to make the news

             Bm               G
Well, it was two rooms up and two rooms down

        E/G#                      A
We were sentenced by the wrecking crane

          D           A/C#   Bm   A
Oh, I was born on the eve of Halloween

   Bm          E          A                    C   G/B | A | % | 
And Snookeroo, Snookeroo, Snookeroo's my name (Snooke – roo)
(break) [Solo] (= verse + bridge) | D | A | Bm | G | | D | A | Bm | E/G# | | A | D | F# | Bm | | D | A | G | E/G# | [Chorus]
Bm          E         A              D
 Snookeroo, Snookeroo, daddy's going on the booze

Bm                    E        A              G/B      A/C#
Mother used to cut my hair and sister used to make the news

             Bm               G
Well, it was two rooms up and two rooms down

        E/G#                      A
We were sentenced by the wrecking crane

          D           A/C#   Bm   A
Oh, I was born on the eve of Halloween
[Coda]
   Bm          E          
And Snookeroo, Snookeroo

Bm          E          
 Snookeroo, Snookeroo

Bm          E          A                    C G/B | A  
 Snookeroo, Snookeroo,  Snookeroo's my name  (break)