The Jam – Saturdays Kids (Ukulele)

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Transcribed by Shaun Hand, 3rd October 2000, 9.43pm [email protected] (Weller) From the LP 'Setting Sons' Chords used: G: 355433 A: 577655 C: x3555x F: 133211 D: x5777x Gsus4: xx5533 E: 022100 C#m: x46654 N.C. (Riff 1 x4) G C D (x2) la,la,la,la...
G                    C         D
Saturday's boys live life with insults,

G                               C         D
Drink lots of beer and wait for half-time results.

E                    C#m
Afternoon tea in the lite-a-bite,

A                  D
Chat up the girls, they dig it!

G                        C           D
Saturday's girls work in Tesco's and Woolworths,

G                          C        D
Wear chep perfume cos it's all they can afford.

E                        C#m
Got to discos they drink Babycham,

A                D
Talk to Jan - in bingo accents.

G C D (x2)
La la la...

G                       C       D
Saturday's kids play on one arm bandits,

G                          C       D
They never win, but that's not the point is it?

E                                 C#m
Get themselves a paper when their pints go flat,

A                 D
How about that? - Far out, man!

G                         C           D
Their mums and dads smoke Capstan non-filters,

G                        C          D
Wallpaper lives cos they all die of cancer,

E               C#m
What goes on? - what goes wrong?

A                         D
Save up their money for a holiday,

A                 D
To Selsey Bill or Bracklesham Bay,

A                             D
Think about the future - when they'll settle down

A                               D
Marry the girl next door - with one on the way.

              C
These are the real creatures that time has forgot,

    D
Not given a thought.

E                 F                                    G
It's the system - hate the system - what's the syste - m?

G C D (x4)
Oh.
G Gsus4 (x4)
G                       Gsus4                G                 Gsus4
Saturday's kids live in council houses, wear V-neck shirts and baggy trousers,

G                       C       D            G                 C     D
Saturday's kids live in council houses, wear V-neck shirts and baggy trousers.
G C D (x2)
E                   C#m
Drive Cortina's fur trimmed dashboard,

A                     D
Stains on the seats - in the back of course!

G C D (x8)
la, la, la
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