Chords for Proclaimers : Throw the R Away - Live Acoustic (Scotland's Music)

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_ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ That changed a little [C] in the mid 80s.
Along came an act that showed you could be very
successful, a wee bit [F] political and still [G] keep your accent.
[C] There's always been a [E] tendency with bands from the United Kingdom if you like to drop
into this kind of mid Atlantic [N] thing.
I mean, why do you think that is?
I think it sells better.
I suspect it's just, it's considered well that's what you do, you
sell more records doing it that way.
And it's more, it appeals maybe to a broader audience.
The producers and the management [F] ever tried to knock it out of you?
No, the only people that tried it were people that we went to see in London, record company
people and publishers and they would say, I will like the songs, but we [Ab] don't think
if you do it in your [F] own accent, it won't travel beyond Scotland.
And why don't you
just speak the way you speak but sing slightly differently?
_ But nobody we were seriously involved in, that were really interested in us trying to
do that because they knew that was part of what we [G] did.
Well, I'm going to ask you to do a song for [Fm] us, one [N] which reflects very much _ your own
particular singing style, Throw the R Away.
Good stuff.
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_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ I'm just gonna have [Db] to learn to hesitate [Ab] To make sure my words on your saxophone don't
grate But I wouldn't know a [Db] single word to say
If I [Ab] flattened all the vowels and the booty out of [Eb] way
_ [Ab] Oh _ what [Db] can I [Dbm] do to be understood [Ab] by you? _
_ [Db] Perhaps with some money I could [Dbm] talk like
a bee [Ab] dripping honey And I'm just gonna [Db] have to learn to hesitate
To make [Ab] sure my words on your saxophone don't grate
But I wouldn't know [Db] a single word to say If [Ab] I flattened all the vowels and the booty
out of way
Well, you see that if I want to get [Db] ahead The language [Dbm] you use [Ab] you'd be left for dead
It doesn't [Eb] _
[Ab] please you, it isn't easy And though you tell it like a lay [Db] fool
I'm [Dbm] seeing the stuff on [Ab] John Coole He just refused to hear
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[Ab] _ He'd been [Db] so sad, [Dbm] cause you said his [Ab] accent was bad
He's [Db] gonna frown, this [Ab] Caledonian clown And I'm just gonna have to [Db] learn to hesitate
To [Ab] make sure my words on your saxophone don't grate
But I wouldn't know a [Db] single word to say If I [Ab] flattened all the vowels and the booty
out of [Db] way
If [Ab] I flattened all the vowels and the booty out of way
If I flattened all the vowels and the [Db] booty out of way
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_ _ If _ [D] I flattened all the vowels and the booty out of way
Great. _
[F] Last year I was at [E] a couple of rugby matches and was delighted to hear every time
we scored _ that your song 500 Miles was played and it seems to be getting played, not football
matches, rugby internationals.
And I know loads of folk that would love to have that
as Scotland's national anthem.
If you were ever asked to write an anthem, [B] what would it be?
[E] A parcel of rogues, I think Burns would be, as far as I'm concerned, a parcel of rogues
would do just right.
I don't think anybody's got better than that.
Traditional choice was always Dean Martin, little old wine drinker me.
_ I'm gonna use
500 Miles as well using that.
I don't know.
I think if you write a [Em] song that you would
want to reflect the modern state of your nation and the modern country, and I suppose people
get a bit put off with trampling your enemy's blood into the dust kind of thing.
For me I would always prefer it if it was something that was singing [E] about how great
we were rather than how terrible.
That's right, and that's what you want to get.
You want to get something that celebrates
your country but does it in a, I suppose, a _ loving way rather than an aggressive way,
not [A] in a militaristic way for sure.
[B] _ _ [E]
Twenty years after their debut album, the Proclaimers are still giving rock music something
extra.
A traditional [B] age, an [E] honesty. _