The Beautiful South – A Little Piece Of Advice (Guitar)

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Chords

Intro: Dm G x2
Dm                       G
Guard your body with the best barbed wire

    Dm                    G
And ward off foe with the fiercest of fire

    F                  C                       Dm    G   Dm   G
But let love unguarded into the strangest of nights

  Dm                           G
Wear your dresses like they're up for hire

    Dm                                 G
And leave them with your humor in the tumble dryer

    Dm                    C                     Dm
And watch yourself stumble down a lane with no lights

Dm                    C              Dm
School like life turns some men into mice

Dm                      C                      Dm
What you need now is a little piece of mouse advice

          F                 Am        
Well they say be wary of strangers

   F                          G
Especially if they offer you sweets

           F                   Am
But there ain't no government health warning

   F                        G
On half the mad fuckers you meet

F                       Am   
Save yourself personal tragedy

   F                           Am
Go back to the man with the sweets

F                    Am
Do yourself schooling favor

     F                         C
Head back to the man with the sweets

Dm                            G
Those who feared cancer never had much to say          

     Dm                       G
They bored us at parties onto forty a day

     Dm             C           Dm
They forced us into corners and onto forty a day

Dm                         G
The dentist's chair is the only time

Dm                G
That anybody ever looks at their mouth

    Dm                      C                     Dm
The dentist give their teeth something to chatter about

Dm                    C               Dm
School like life turns some men into mice

Dm                   C                 Dm
To avoid the rat-trap take the mouse's advice

          F              Am
Well they say be wary of strangers

    F                         G
Especially if they offer you sweets

          F                    Am
But there ain't no government health warning

   F                        G
On half the mad fuckers you meet

F                      Am
Save yourself personal tragedy

   F                        Am
Go back to the man with the sweets

F                     Am
Do yourself schooling favor

     F                        Am
Head back to the man with the sweets
Dm G Dm G Dm C Dm