The Rolling Stones – Memo From Turner (Guitar)

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          A                  A7                   D7        A
Didn't I see you down in San Antone on a hot and dusty night?

         D              A                                    D7        A
You were eating eggs in Sammy's when the black man there drew his knife

                                                     D7            A
Or you drowned that Jew in Rampton as he washed his sleevless shirt

                      D7        A              
You know that Spanish speaking gentleman, the one that we call Kurt

C#m       Bm                D               A
Come now, gentleman, I know there's some mistake

       C#m            Bm            D                   A
How forgetful I'm becoming now you fixed your business straight

    A                             D7               A
I remember you in Hemlock Road in nineteen fifty six

            D             A                  D7              A
You were a faggy little leather boy with a smaller piece of stick
You were a lashing smashing hunk of a man,
     D                      A
your sweat shined sweet and strong

     D7                A                      Bm
Your organ's working perfectly, but there's a part

           D             E7
that's not   screwed on
A E7 A E A E7 A E
            A                               D                 A
Weren't you at the Coke Convention back in nineteen sixty five

            D            A
You're the misbred grey executive I've seen heavily advertised

                                                    D                  A
You're the great grey man whose daughter licks policemen's buttons clean

   D                         A
You're the man who squats behind the man

           D                  E
who works            the soft machine

C#m         Bm                 D             A
Come now, gentlemen, your love  is all I crave

          C#m            Bm                D
You'll still be in the circus when I'm laughing,

                              A
laughing            in my grave

         A                                   D7                 A
When the old men do all the fighting and the young men all look on

        D                      A                  D              A
And the young girls eat their mother's meat from tubes of plasticon

                                      D                     A
Be wary of these my gentle friends of all the skin you breed

   D7              A
To have that tasty habit,

     D                         E
it's not       the hands    that bleed

        A                               D7                A
Well remember who you say you are but keep your noses clean

        D              A                     D                    A
Boys will be boys and play with toys. So be   strong with your beast

                                            D                    A
Oh Rosie dear, don'cha think it's queer. So stop me if you please

    D7               A
The baby's dead, my lady said

        D                        G               A
You gentlemen       will you all         work for me