Chords for Rod Stewart - I was only joking - LIVE in Manchester 26.05.2010

I'll be down as a Scotsman. _ _ _
_ So this one is for Bob Stewart, my dad, and you'll see his image up there.
I'll be down as a Scotsman. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Dm] She's got a [A] husband _ in him.
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
Ever since I was a kid in school, _ I messed [Em] around with all of them. _
[Dm] _ I just [A] didn't realize _ [E] I'm that different after all.
[A] _ _ _ _
Me and the boys [C#m] thought we had it such.
[A] _ Black and [Bm] teal was all of us.
[Dm] My dad said we [A] looked ridiculous. _
[E] But boy, we pushed the cart.
[A] _ _ _
You know, the few and average jobs, [C#m] running free,
[C#] _ waiting for [Bm] a good society. _
[Dm] My black face is [A] still blackening, [E] but now your hair [A] can change. _ _
Promises made [C#m] in the heat of the night,
[A] _ slipping on the [Bm] thought I got your light. _
[Dm] I wasted all that [A] precious time,
[E] I'm blaming it on my [B] life.
_ I was [D] only _ [E] joking.
[A] _ _ Looking [D] for a break [E] for God.
[F#m] _ _ What [D] kind of [E] fool [A] was I? _
[Bm] I could never win.
_ [C#] _ _ [F#m] _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ [A] _ _ Never found it to [C#m] compromise.
_ [A] _ Collected lovers [D] like butterflies.
_ [Dm] _ Illusions of that [A] grand first prize.
[E] I was so unaware.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ Susie, baby, [C#m] you were good to me.
_ [A] _ Giving love [D] was so sweet.
_ _ [Dm] But you took it [A] all too seriously.
_ [E] I'm guessing it had [A] to be.
_ [B] I was [D] only _ [E] joking.
[A] _ _ Looking [D] for a break [E] for God.
[F#m] _ What [D] kind of fool [E] was [A] I?
_ [Bm] I could never win.
[F#] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [B] _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ [F#] _ _ _
[A] Now _ _ _ you ask me if I'm sincere.
[C#] _ That's the [G] question that I always hear.
[Dm] _ _ Verse [A] seven is never clear.
[E] But I'll tell you what you're wrong.
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ I try to get you, [G#m] oh, you're one [C#] _ _ _
[Bm] of my strongest points.
[Dm] _ If that's the case, [A] it's pointless holding on.
_ [E] I'd rather be [A] _ _ _ _ _
wilder now.
_ Leave the stage.
[C#]
Act when it's over without [G#] costume [Dm] change.
My friends in Manchester.
_ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] You clown! _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I'm going to take a short break now, just two, twelve minutes.
I just want to show you, for say, up the front of the house. _ _
Up the front of the house.
Don't let me down, guys.
Don't let me down. _
My son has designed [G] a t-shirt and all the money goes to [N] charity.
See, we see Alastair's 280.
Stop it.
We'll motion for her.
And all the money goes to charity.
Trust me, it's a children's charity.
So if just a couple of you purchased that, half a dozen would have been dead.
Back in ten or twelve minutes.
Thank you very much. _ _ _