Chords for Hugh Cornwell - Golden Brown (The Stranglers) | Het verhaal achter het nummer | Top 2000 a gogo

[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _
_ [F] We were [G] a soft rock when we [C] started, a [Gm] soft rock [F] band,
and then slowly [Gm] the songs [C] got tougher and [Gm] tougher
[F] because the [Gm] audiences got [C] tougher,
and [Gm] people [F] reacted _ [Em] violently to [Am] us.
They would [C] throw things at us, and [Gm] _ _ [Ab]
we didn't_
We [Cm] thought, well, we're just playing the [Gm] songs that we've written,
[Bb] and they weren't particularly [Am] provocative or anything,
[Gm]
so [Am] we got [Bb] pushed into a corner
where [A] we had to become [Bb] more _ _ confrontational
[Gm] because that was [Am] the only way we [Bb] could _ continue.
_ [Gm] _ [C] We were just [Gm] _ [F] reflecting_
Like [Gm] true artists, we [C] were reflecting our [F] _
society.
[Gm] No [C] more [Gm] heroes [F] anymore
_ [C] No more heroes [F] anymore
[Gm] Did you guys [F] consider yourself part of the [C] punk movement?
_ [G] We weren't [Am] the only people. _
There [C] was _ [Gm] Ajam, _ [Am]
Blondie,
[Bb] _ [Am] even Graham [Gm] Parker [A] and Elvis [Bb] Costello.
You can't [Am] really say that [Gm] they were punks,
[F] but we all got lumped in, [Gm] and no [A]-one was complaining
[Bb] _ _ because [Gm] _
_ [C] it [Gm] created a [F] career for us,
so [Gm] no-one said, we don't care, [Fm] call [Bb] us what you like.
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
There _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
were _ _ [G] some incidents.
Yeah, yeah, but that was for [F] fun.
_ [G] _ _ [C] That was for [G] fun.
_ [F] _ [G] Well, like, you know, if you've got a key to it,
[F] _ _ [G] you've _
[C] got _ freedom [F] to act [Gm] _
_ nihilistically,
_ and you can create a bit of chaos,
then most people would take the license.
You know, why not?
See what you can get away with. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ And then it was like, well, we could do this _ _ with our eyes closed
_ and make another 20 albums just [Gb] like that,
[Db] but that's [Bbm] going to be boring,
[Fm] so let's try [Gb] to [Db] expand the universe.
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_ [Ab] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _
_ [Db] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [Db] _
_ [Ebm] _ _ [Db] Golden brown, [Ebm] _
texture [Db] like sun
_ [Ebm] _ Lays me [Db] _
[Ebm] down with my [Db] mind she [Ebm] runs
Throughout [Db] the night, _ [Ebm] no [Db] need to fight
[Ebm] _ Never a [Db] frown, [Ebm] _ _
[Db] golden brown
_ [Ebm] _ _ [Db] _ _
_ [Ebm] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [Ebm] _
Every [Db] _ [Ebm] time, just like [Db] the last
[Ebm] _ On her [Db] _ [Ebm] ship, tied to the [Db] mast
[Ebm] _ _ [Db] Two distant lands, [Ebm] takes [Db] both my hands
[Ebm] Never a [Db] frown, [Ebm] _ golden [Ab] brown
It [Bbm] wasn't just punks [Fm] who liked it,
your [Gb] grandmothers liked [Db] it in the street.
[Bbm] But what was nice about [Fm] it is that it's very [Gb] subversive,
[Bbm] because one of the things it's about is about heroin.
[Fm] _ So it's [Gb] very nice to hear this [Db] song about heroin
on [Bbm] the most [Fm] popular show on [Ab] radio, you know, [Gb] with [Ebm] _ family entertainment.
[Db] So in a [Ebm] way, it was more punk than [Db] anything else we'd [Ebm] done.
_ [Db] _ Golden brown, [Ebm] fine at ten [Db] tress
[Ebm] _ Through [Db] the ages [Ebm] she's [Db] heading west
[Ebm] From far [Db] away, [Ebm] stays for [Db] a day
_ [Ebm] Never [Db] a frown, [Ebm] golden [Ab] brown
Were [Bbm] you still taking heroin [Fm] when you wrote the [Gb] lyric?
I think looking [Db] back.
It was [Bbm] an ode.
An [Fm] ode?
An [Gb] ode to heroin.
_ [Db]
Maybe ode is [Bbm] the right word.
_ [Fm] _ [Gb] Although it was a [Db] _ _ [Bbm] lovely period of [Fm] time
and romantic.
[Ab] And _ [Bbm] you get into the [Ebm] romanticism.
I think a [Db] lot of people get into the [Ebm] romanticism of drug [Db] taking
rather [Ebm] because of the [Db] _
[Ebm] old English poets, [Db] you know,
_ [Ebm] Shelley and [Db] _ Coleridge, they were all drug addicts.
And [Ebm] so people get this [Db] romantic, ah, drugs, [Ebm] romance [Db] poetry.
_ [Ebm] And _ really, it doesn't really,
_ [Db] _ _ the best poetry you ever come up with is when [Gb] you're stone [Bbm] cold sober. _
_ _ I think [Fm] when people hear [Gb] the lyrics,
not [Db] knowing that it's about heroin,
they [Fm] hear the romance in [Gb] the lyrics.
_ But really, _ _ it's saying [Em] be careful. _ _
_ [F] Heroin was a dangerous [Am] thing,
so I tried to put that in the lyric, you [Em] know. _ _ _ _
Golden brown, fine at ten tress
_ Through the ages she's heading west
_ From far away, stays for a day
_ Never [C] a frown, [D] _ golden [Am] brown _ _
_ [Em] Never _ _ _ _ _
[Am] a man
It would have got [Em] to number one, [F] but _ [Em]
Big Mouth [Am] Burnell
_ _ [Em] decided to tell the press what it was about.
And suddenly it [Gm] was removed from all the [Am] playlists.
And I said, thank you very much, you [Em] know.
Never a _ frown
I would have waited until it got to number one and then said it. _
_ _ _ [Am] Never _ [Em] a [F] frown
_ _ [G] With golden _ [Am] _ brown _ _ _ _
_ [N] Thank you very much for your attention, gentlemen.
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