Chords for Sweet - 10.Song Of The Month "The Ballroom Blitz" (OFFICIAL)

[D] _ Hey, man. _ _ _ _ _
_ [D#] _ _ _ _ [D] Come on.
_ _ _ _ Are you ready, C?
Uh?
Andy?
Yeah.
Nick?
OK.
All right, [E] fellas.
Let's go! _
_ _ _ Mike _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Chapman, the songwriter,
had not seen the band play for a little [F#] while,
[E] and he kept reading about these rave reviews
about Sweet Mania and all this stuff,
so he came up to Scotland with us for a couple of shows,
and this one particular show in Glasgow,
where the crowd was incredibly wild,
Brian and I ended up in the audience at one point,
and I felt the scissors going into my hair,
which wasn't pleasant,
and Mike went away and sat down and wrote The Ballroom Blitz.
_ _ [F#] And the man in [A] the back said,
Everyone [B] attack me, I'm gonna turn into [Em] a ballroom blitz
[F#] And the girl in [A] the corner said, Boy, I want [Bm] a one-year,
It'll turn you into a ballroom blitz
[E]
Ballroom blitz, _ [D] _ [Em] _ _ _ ballroom blitz
_ _ _ _ _ Once again, as with most Sweet songs, they start with a guitar riff,
[E] and the _ guitar riff in this one is once again
going back to the old style of, a lot of songs in the 60s
used to have this_
You _ know, this sort of Chuck Berry type of thing.
It's just another play on that where you've got_ _
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And the verse guitar has even got a little bit of Chuck Berry in it
with _ Memphis, [A] Tennessee, where it goes_ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ So it's quite simple in its way,
but if you don't play it right, _ it doesn't sound right.
And I always say that to people.
You know, you may think that these things are quite simple,
[G] but if you don't put the inflection or the right essence,
you're just [Em] another band playing another cover song,
you know, and it could be anybody.
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_ _ I was_ _ _
_ _ I was a [A] man in jail for something
Who'd take my mother's life [E] and leave me
I _ _ was a man [A] in a suffocating dark hole
For a human being who's nothing [E] but a myth
_ My father_
The end of the [N] middle section, which is basically
a drums and bass-driven section, which had the guitar going,
you know, _ [D] the_ HE HUMS
And _
[D#] _ [E] _ [D] _ _ then there's the guitar riff at the end, which [E] basically,
_ we were all into bands like The Beatles
and we were just looking for a nice little guitar thing at the end
and I came up with, [A] _
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [N]
which could have been from any of The Beatles,
Revolver or Robber Soul type of albums, so_
[Em] But people remember that and I'm glad of that.
HE HUMS
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