You Tattooed Me Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Chords used: A B E F♯m G♯m C♯m

Intro

F♯m A G♯ B C♯m A B

Verse

C♯mStranded in Antwerp

June '54

F♯mStreets full of refugees

And ruAmours of wBar

In a C♯mqueue at the station

A stranger arrived

You F♯mwalked up & fixed me

With wAild hazel eByes

But the hotel was crowded

I followed in fright

You slammed the door behind us

And smashed out the light

You said "why try to fight it?"

To my racing heart

Then we nuzzled like animals

And kissed in the dark

Bridge

EWe wrecked the bed spent the rent

ALeft there without a cent

DF♯mrank the fare and neAver made the C♯mtraiBn

TiAll 25 I was bG♯marely alBive

And I woF♯mndered what hAit me B

Chorus

When you tattooed mAe... C♯m tatG♯mtooed Bme A C♯m B

You tattooed Ame C♯m tattoG♯moed Bme

And I wonAdered what Bhit me when you C♯mcame A B

Shacked up in basements

Behind broken doors

Bugs in the blankets

And glass on the floor

Cold broke & hungry

With quarrels and fights

Coughing blood through the winter

I felt so alive

And then on one fatal day

You signed your life away

I was too weak for alarm

I was drunk and asleep

As you left for the fleet

You tattooed your name on my arm

Yeah you tattooed me tattooed me

You tattooed me tattooed me

Your name with a needle in my arm

Break

flamenco strum as required)

C♯m A B A

With the peace in Geneva

The world crawled away

From the brink of oblivion

We all breathed again

And when you deserted

No more letters came

My life cut to pieces

I started again

And when I was on the mend

I drifted to Zaventem

Worked there unloading the plane

And I paid my way

On a thousand a day

And I never did see you again

But you tattooed me... tattooed me

You tattooed me tattooed me

You tattooed me tattooed me

You tattooed me tattooed me

And the mark of the needle remains

You tattooed me tattooed me

And I knew that we'd never meet again