Squeeze – Dark Saloons (Guitar)

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(Difford/Tilbrook) From the digipak CD of 1993's 'Some Fantastic Place' single. [Intro]
      A#             F
Na-na na na-na na-na na

      A#             D
Na-na na na-na na-na na
[Verse 1]
   G             D
In dark saloons across the world

        Em             B
There’s horny boys and tired girls

      C                     D
Their legs are crossed, his eyes are red

    G               Em
The smoky room, the sweaty bed

      C                     F
Where dreams are laced with dollar bills

  E                   D
Excitement reigns and sex can kill

   G               Em
In dimly lit, wan, dusty rooms

    C              F
And down below the old Jack croons

   E                    D
On bedside plates where money folds

    G                D
And in the bar, each story’s told

     Em                 B
With slur and slur, and drag by drag,

    C                 D
The best handjob he’s ever had
[Chorus]
G           Em      G            C
Love is the theory, it’s not the fashion

E            F            Am
To wear your passion on a clear day

Am                      G        Em
Take a look around you, anger is potent

G           C
When it’s exposing

E             F                 Am
Then you take notice this can’t be love

                               C               D C G A
I get no dizzy spells from Beethoven or George Jones

      A#             F
Na-na na na-na na-na na

      A#             D
Na-na na na-na na-na na
[Verse 2]
   G             D
In dark saloons across the world

  Em              B
I hear the cry of tired girls

    C               D
Who stand to make a meal tonight

    G               Em
The hungry kids who play outside

   C                F
In mucky streets by rusty cars

     E              D
That slowly park by crowded bars

    G                 Em
And there she is with big, fat man

    C                F
The tattered rags on stubbly hands

   E                     D
He drops his strides and babbles on

    G                 D
His English base, his marbles gone

    Em               B
And so the work gets truly peachy

C               D
Takes his money and his speech
[Chorus]
G           Em      G            C
Love is the theory, it’s not the fashion

E            F            Am
To wear your passion on a clear day

Am                      G        Em
Take a look around you, anger is potent

G           C
When it’s exposing

E             F                 Am
Then you take notice this can’t be love

                               C               D C G Am
I get no dizzy spells from Beethoven or George Jones
[Outro]
D  C  G  Am
Jones....

G  Am
Jones....

Bm Am
George....

G  Am  D
Jones