Chords for Ian Dury & The Blockheads - I Wanna Be Straight (1980)

_ _ _ I'm Charlie, you know.
_ _ _ I'm Norman, pleased to meet you. _
_ [E] _ _ I'm Nicky.
[A] Hello. _
_ _ [E] _ _ Welcome.
[A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ I'm
Joe.
[A] How you doing?
How are you?
My _ [E] _ _ name [A] is David.
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] And I'm Ian.
_ [E] And?
_ _ _ [A] Guess [E] what?
I'm
going to be straight.
_ [A] I'm going to be straight.
I'm _ [E] _ taking drugs and [A] staying up late.
I [E] want
to confide.
I [A] want to conform.
I want to be safe and I want to be snug and I want to do
[B] wrong.
I [E] want to be straight.
_ [A] I want to be straight.
I [E] want to create a place of my own
in the [A] welfare state.
We're [E] going to be good.
_ [A] We're going to be kind.
_ It might be a rest
but leave the stench of it in [B] the eyes.
I [E] want to be straight.
I [A] want to be straight.
[Em] _ [E] Come out of the cold and do what I'm told and [A] don't be the end.
_ _ [E] I want to give, I want
to give, [A] I want to give my consent.
I'm learning to hate all the things that were great when
[B] I used to [Em] make.
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[F#m] _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
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_ [E] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ I [A] want to be straight.
[Em] I'm sick and tired of taking drugs and staying up late.
I [E] know
that you're right.
I [A] know I was wrong.
So [E] thank you very much and please keep in touch.
[A] I'll be running along.
I [E] want to be straight.
I [A] want to be straight.
[E] I want to be straight.
[A] I want to be straight.
[E] I want to be straight.
I [A] want to be straight.
I [E] want to be straight.
I want to be straight.
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[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
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_ [E] I want to be bad, I want to be [A] grand, I want to be straight.
I want to be [E] bad, I want to be [A] grand, I want to be straight.
I want to be [E] bad, I want to be grand, I want to be [A] straight.
Stay out of the [E] strain.
I want to be bad, I want to be [A] grand, I want to be straight.
Stay out [E] the strain.
I want to be bad, I want to be [G] straight.
I want to be bad, I want to be grand, I want to be straight.
Stay out of the strain. _ _ _ _ _ _
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