The Boy With The Arab Strap Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

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Verse 1

GA mile and a half on a bus takes a long time, The odour of old prison food

takes a long time to Cpass you by

GDay upon day of this wandering gets you down, nobody gives you a chance or a

dollar in Cthis old town

GHovering silence from you is a giveaway, squalor and smoke's not your style

I don't like this place, CWe better go

GThen I compare notes with your older sister, I am a lazy get, she is as pure

as the Ccold driven snow

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Verse 2

GWhat did you learn from your time in the solitary cell of your mind?

There was noises, distractions from Canything good and the old prison food

GColour my life with the chaos of trouble

GCause anything's better than posh isolation, I missed the bus, You were laid

on your back

With the boy with the arab Dstrap

With the boy from the arab Gstrap

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Verse 3

It's Gsomething to speak of the way you are feeling to crowds there assembled

Do you ever feel you have Cgone too far?

GEveryone suffers in silence a burden, the man who drives minicabs down in Old Compton

The CAsian man With his love/hate affair with his racist Dclientele

A Gcentral location for you is a must as you stagger about making free with

your lewd and Clascivious boasts

We Gall know you are soft because we've all seen you dancing

We know you are hard because we all saw you drinking from Cnoon until noon again

You're the boy with the filthy Dlaugh

You're the boy with the arab Gstrap

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Verse 4

GStrapped to the table with suits from the shelter shop

Comic celebrity takes a back seat as the Ccigarette catches and sets off the smoke alarm

GWhat do you make of the cool set in London?

You're constantly updating your hit parade of your Cten biggest wanks

She's a waitress and she's got Dstyle

Sunday bathtime could take a while G