Chords for Morrissey talks about his youth
Tempo:
70.9 bpm
Chords used:
G
D
Gb
Ab
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Ab] [Gb]
[E] I [Gb] am the sun and the air
[Dbm] [E]
[Ab] [Gb]
[G] The place where I grew up no longer exists, [Gbm] apart from here in the local history [G] library,
photographic evidence of Queen's Square in Old Trafford.
[Ab] This is where I grew up and it was [Gb] demolished in the late 1960s,
[G] and in a way it was like having [Gb] one's childhood wiped away.
[C] In Queen's Square, my grandmother occupied the fourth house,
we occupied the fifth house, and the sixth house was occupied by my mother's sister and her family.
So it was a very strong community and it was very tight, very solid, [Gb] and it was also quite happy.
[Abm] Well there's nothing at Queen's Square now.
[N] As you can see, everything has just vanished.
It's just like the whole thing has been completely erased from the face of the earth.
I feel great anger, I feel massive sadness.
It's like a complete loss of childhood because although I've always lived in [G] Manchester,
and I've always lived relatively close to here, this [Eb] part of Manchester,
now, when I pass through here, or even being here today, it's just so foreign [Ab] to me.
And that's quite sad, I think.
[G] The old St.
Wilfrid's, the school that I went to for many, many years, once stood here.
It was pulled down in 1969, which was a great shame because it was a school full of character.
[E] It was replaced by this new modern [G] school.
Hello, Stephen.
Nice to see you again.
Nice to see you.
Very pleased to hear about your success.
Oh, thank you.
Very good.
Are you going through old times?
There are pictures here.
[Ab] He was saying that the building here, how it sort of brings back some of the memories,
and how the children used to talk about the upstairs [G] being haunted.
It used to be sort of a little game, [Fm] wouldn't it?
So this is.
[G] This is my secondary school, and I have very different feelings about the school
than I do about St.
Wilfrid's, the junior school.
This was a very sadistic school, very [Dm] barbaric,
and by some [G] strange miscalculation of nature or whatever, I ended up here.
I don't know why.
And five years of education here proved to have no effect upon me whatsoever,
and I'm sure no effect upon anybody else,
except certainly in a very adverse sense, [D] not to be [G] recommended.
I left [E] home, I came to live in Stratford on a road called [G] King's Road.
I lived there for a very long time.
It's quite bland, quite [Gb] uneventful.
There's not really a great deal to say about King's Road.
I never had a social life.
I [G] never left the house.
I just simply sat in and read and watched television
and done all the things that in life are generally considered to be quite negative
[Gm] and quite soul-destroying.
[Ab] The only way that I could find [B] any mental relaxation
[N] is to simply go out and walk,
and to walk around these streets,
which can seem quite [D] depressing to most people
and seem quite laughably simplistic.
But for me it was perfect fuel,
[Eb] because then I would go home [N] and I would write furiously,
and I [F] found that for me it was a brilliant outlet.
It was the thing that helped.
But also you have to have a grain of hope,
which is a very difficult thing to [B] have.
[Fm]
I'm afraid, [G] yes, I'm somewhat of a back-bedroom casualty.
I spent [Eb] a great deal of time sitting in the bedroom writing furiously
and feeling that I was terribly important
and that everything [G] that I wrote would go down in the annals of history or whatever.
[D] And it's proved to be quite [G] true.
[D] You know what?
[Bm] [D]
[G] [Bb] Now for the very [Gm] first time I'm in a situation where I could leave the [Gb] North
and live in the place of [Bb] my choice quite comfortably.
[Ab] But do I want to?
I don't think I do.
[G] It's very difficult to say how things will be in the future,
because we tend to change [Gb] our minds about places.
[Gm] But right now [Bb] I don't feel that I want to.
I feel quite cemented and [Ab] I feel quite attached to all the things that I've known.
Why?
Who knows?
This mystical bond, I really don't know.
It's difficult to put it [A] on the table and point at it.
[C]
I would [D] love to go back [B] to the old [D] house,
[Bm] but I never [D] will, [Bm] I never will, never.
[D]
[E] I [Gb] am the sun and the air
[Dbm] [E]
[Ab] [Gb]
[G] The place where I grew up no longer exists, [Gbm] apart from here in the local history [G] library,
photographic evidence of Queen's Square in Old Trafford.
[Ab] This is where I grew up and it was [Gb] demolished in the late 1960s,
[G] and in a way it was like having [Gb] one's childhood wiped away.
[C] In Queen's Square, my grandmother occupied the fourth house,
we occupied the fifth house, and the sixth house was occupied by my mother's sister and her family.
So it was a very strong community and it was very tight, very solid, [Gb] and it was also quite happy.
[Abm] Well there's nothing at Queen's Square now.
[N] As you can see, everything has just vanished.
It's just like the whole thing has been completely erased from the face of the earth.
I feel great anger, I feel massive sadness.
It's like a complete loss of childhood because although I've always lived in [G] Manchester,
and I've always lived relatively close to here, this [Eb] part of Manchester,
now, when I pass through here, or even being here today, it's just so foreign [Ab] to me.
And that's quite sad, I think.
[G] The old St.
Wilfrid's, the school that I went to for many, many years, once stood here.
It was pulled down in 1969, which was a great shame because it was a school full of character.
[E] It was replaced by this new modern [G] school.
Hello, Stephen.
Nice to see you again.
Nice to see you.
Very pleased to hear about your success.
Oh, thank you.
Very good.
Are you going through old times?
There are pictures here.
[Ab] He was saying that the building here, how it sort of brings back some of the memories,
and how the children used to talk about the upstairs [G] being haunted.
It used to be sort of a little game, [Fm] wouldn't it?
So this is.
[G] This is my secondary school, and I have very different feelings about the school
than I do about St.
Wilfrid's, the junior school.
This was a very sadistic school, very [Dm] barbaric,
and by some [G] strange miscalculation of nature or whatever, I ended up here.
I don't know why.
And five years of education here proved to have no effect upon me whatsoever,
and I'm sure no effect upon anybody else,
except certainly in a very adverse sense, [D] not to be [G] recommended.
I left [E] home, I came to live in Stratford on a road called [G] King's Road.
I lived there for a very long time.
It's quite bland, quite [Gb] uneventful.
There's not really a great deal to say about King's Road.
I never had a social life.
I [G] never left the house.
I just simply sat in and read and watched television
and done all the things that in life are generally considered to be quite negative
[Gm] and quite soul-destroying.
[Ab] The only way that I could find [B] any mental relaxation
[N] is to simply go out and walk,
and to walk around these streets,
which can seem quite [D] depressing to most people
and seem quite laughably simplistic.
But for me it was perfect fuel,
[Eb] because then I would go home [N] and I would write furiously,
and I [F] found that for me it was a brilliant outlet.
It was the thing that helped.
But also you have to have a grain of hope,
which is a very difficult thing to [B] have.
[Fm]
I'm afraid, [G] yes, I'm somewhat of a back-bedroom casualty.
I spent [Eb] a great deal of time sitting in the bedroom writing furiously
and feeling that I was terribly important
and that everything [G] that I wrote would go down in the annals of history or whatever.
[D] And it's proved to be quite [G] true.
[D] You know what?
[Bm] [D]
[G] [Bb] Now for the very [Gm] first time I'm in a situation where I could leave the [Gb] North
and live in the place of [Bb] my choice quite comfortably.
[Ab] But do I want to?
I don't think I do.
[G] It's very difficult to say how things will be in the future,
because we tend to change [Gb] our minds about places.
[Gm] But right now [Bb] I don't feel that I want to.
I feel quite cemented and [Ab] I feel quite attached to all the things that I've known.
Why?
Who knows?
This mystical bond, I really don't know.
It's difficult to put it [A] on the table and point at it.
[C]
I would [D] love to go back [B] to the old [D] house,
[Bm] but I never [D] will, [Bm] I never will, never.
[D]
Key:
G
D
Gb
Ab
E
G
D
Gb
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ I [Gb] am the sun and the air
_ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ [E] _
_ [Ab] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] The place where I grew up no longer exists, [Gbm] apart from here in the local history [G] library,
photographic evidence of Queen's Square in Old Trafford.
[Ab] This is where I grew up and it was [Gb] demolished in the late 1960s,
[G] and in a way it was like having [Gb] one's childhood wiped away.
[C] In Queen's Square, my grandmother occupied the fourth house,
we occupied the fifth house, and the sixth house was occupied by my mother's sister and her family.
So it was a very strong community and it was very tight, very solid, [Gb] and it was also quite happy. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Abm] Well there's nothing at Queen's Square now.
[N] As you can see, everything has just vanished.
It's just like the whole thing has been completely erased from the face of the earth.
I feel great anger, I feel massive sadness.
It's like a complete loss of childhood because although I've always lived in [G] Manchester,
and I've always lived relatively close to here, this [Eb] part of Manchester, _
now, when I pass through here, or even being here today, it's just so foreign [Ab] to me.
And that's quite sad, I think.
_ [G] The old St.
Wilfrid's, the school that I went to for many, many years, once stood here.
It was pulled down in 1969, which was a great shame because it was a school full of character.
[E] It was replaced by this new modern [G] school.
Hello, Stephen.
Nice to see you again.
Nice to see you.
Very pleased to hear about your success.
Oh, thank you.
Very good.
Are you going through old times?
There are pictures here.
[Ab] He was saying that the building here, how it sort of brings back some of the memories,
and how the children used to talk about the upstairs [G] being haunted.
It used to be sort of a little game, [Fm] wouldn't it?
So this is.
[G] This is my secondary school, and I have very different feelings about the school
than I do about St.
Wilfrid's, the junior school.
This was a very sadistic school, very [Dm] barbaric,
and by some [G] strange miscalculation of nature or whatever, I ended up here.
I don't know why.
And five years of education here proved to have no effect upon me whatsoever,
and I'm sure no effect upon anybody else,
except certainly in a very adverse sense, [D] not to be [G] recommended.
I left [E] home, I came to live in Stratford on a road called [G] King's Road.
I lived there for a very long time.
_ It's quite bland, quite [Gb] uneventful.
There's not really a great deal to say about King's Road.
I never had a social life.
I [G] never left the house.
I just simply sat in and read and watched television
and done all the things that in life are generally considered to be quite negative
[Gm] and quite soul-destroying.
[Ab] The only way that I could find [B] any mental relaxation
[N] is to simply go out and walk,
and to walk around these streets,
which can seem quite [D] depressing to most people
and seem quite laughably simplistic.
But for me it was perfect fuel,
[Eb] because then I would go home [N] and I would write furiously,
and I [F] found that for me it was a brilliant outlet.
It was the thing that helped.
But also you have to have a grain of hope,
which is a very difficult thing to [B] have.
_ _ _ _ [Fm]
I'm afraid, [G] yes, I'm somewhat of a back-bedroom casualty.
I spent [Eb] a great deal of time sitting in the bedroom writing furiously
and feeling that I was terribly important
and that everything [G] that I wrote would go down in the annals of history or whatever.
[D] And it's proved to be quite [G] true.
[D] You know what?
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ [Bb] _ Now for the very [Gm] first time I'm in a situation where I could leave the [Gb] North
and live in the place of [Bb] my choice quite comfortably.
_ [Ab] But do I want to?
I don't think I do.
[G] It's very difficult to say how things will be in the future,
because we tend to change [Gb] our minds about places.
[Gm] But right now [Bb] I don't feel that I want to.
I feel quite cemented and [Ab] I feel quite attached to all the things that I've known.
Why?
Who knows?
This mystical bond, I really don't know.
It's difficult to put it [A] on the table and point at it.
[C] _
_ I would [D] love to go _ back [B] to the old [D] house,
[Bm] but I never [D] will, [Bm] I never will, _ _ never.
[D] _
_ [E] _ _ I [Gb] am the sun and the air
_ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ [E] _
_ [Ab] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] The place where I grew up no longer exists, [Gbm] apart from here in the local history [G] library,
photographic evidence of Queen's Square in Old Trafford.
[Ab] This is where I grew up and it was [Gb] demolished in the late 1960s,
[G] and in a way it was like having [Gb] one's childhood wiped away.
[C] In Queen's Square, my grandmother occupied the fourth house,
we occupied the fifth house, and the sixth house was occupied by my mother's sister and her family.
So it was a very strong community and it was very tight, very solid, [Gb] and it was also quite happy. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Abm] Well there's nothing at Queen's Square now.
[N] As you can see, everything has just vanished.
It's just like the whole thing has been completely erased from the face of the earth.
I feel great anger, I feel massive sadness.
It's like a complete loss of childhood because although I've always lived in [G] Manchester,
and I've always lived relatively close to here, this [Eb] part of Manchester, _
now, when I pass through here, or even being here today, it's just so foreign [Ab] to me.
And that's quite sad, I think.
_ [G] The old St.
Wilfrid's, the school that I went to for many, many years, once stood here.
It was pulled down in 1969, which was a great shame because it was a school full of character.
[E] It was replaced by this new modern [G] school.
Hello, Stephen.
Nice to see you again.
Nice to see you.
Very pleased to hear about your success.
Oh, thank you.
Very good.
Are you going through old times?
There are pictures here.
[Ab] He was saying that the building here, how it sort of brings back some of the memories,
and how the children used to talk about the upstairs [G] being haunted.
It used to be sort of a little game, [Fm] wouldn't it?
So this is.
[G] This is my secondary school, and I have very different feelings about the school
than I do about St.
Wilfrid's, the junior school.
This was a very sadistic school, very [Dm] barbaric,
and by some [G] strange miscalculation of nature or whatever, I ended up here.
I don't know why.
And five years of education here proved to have no effect upon me whatsoever,
and I'm sure no effect upon anybody else,
except certainly in a very adverse sense, [D] not to be [G] recommended.
I left [E] home, I came to live in Stratford on a road called [G] King's Road.
I lived there for a very long time.
_ It's quite bland, quite [Gb] uneventful.
There's not really a great deal to say about King's Road.
I never had a social life.
I [G] never left the house.
I just simply sat in and read and watched television
and done all the things that in life are generally considered to be quite negative
[Gm] and quite soul-destroying.
[Ab] The only way that I could find [B] any mental relaxation
[N] is to simply go out and walk,
and to walk around these streets,
which can seem quite [D] depressing to most people
and seem quite laughably simplistic.
But for me it was perfect fuel,
[Eb] because then I would go home [N] and I would write furiously,
and I [F] found that for me it was a brilliant outlet.
It was the thing that helped.
But also you have to have a grain of hope,
which is a very difficult thing to [B] have.
_ _ _ _ [Fm]
I'm afraid, [G] yes, I'm somewhat of a back-bedroom casualty.
I spent [Eb] a great deal of time sitting in the bedroom writing furiously
and feeling that I was terribly important
and that everything [G] that I wrote would go down in the annals of history or whatever.
[D] And it's proved to be quite [G] true.
[D] You know what?
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ [Bb] _ Now for the very [Gm] first time I'm in a situation where I could leave the [Gb] North
and live in the place of [Bb] my choice quite comfortably.
_ [Ab] But do I want to?
I don't think I do.
[G] It's very difficult to say how things will be in the future,
because we tend to change [Gb] our minds about places.
[Gm] But right now [Bb] I don't feel that I want to.
I feel quite cemented and [Ab] I feel quite attached to all the things that I've known.
Why?
Who knows?
This mystical bond, I really don't know.
It's difficult to put it [A] on the table and point at it.
[C] _
_ I would [D] love to go _ back [B] to the old [D] house,
[Bm] but I never [D] will, [Bm] I never will, _ _ never.
[D] _