Chords for The Stranglers 1989 Documentary
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On tomorrow's late show, television's obsession with crime proof.
Claim they've become punk-a-thors, like dinosaurs, but with punk instead of dine.
funny anyway.
because it must be said that the men in black
reputation for silliness.
album, which just happens to be their tenth,
band in drag as Margaret Thatcher and Benazir Bhutto,
all disguised as Yasser Arafat, amongst others, which is rather funny.
Claim they've become punk-a-thors, like dinosaurs, but with punk instead of dine.
funny anyway.
because it must be said that the men in black
reputation for silliness.
album, which just happens to be their tenth,
band in drag as Margaret Thatcher and Benazir Bhutto,
all disguised as Yasser Arafat, amongst others, which is rather funny.
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On tomorrow's late show, television's obsession with crime proof.
Claim they've become punk-a-thors, like dinosaurs, but with punk instead of dine.
I'm not quite sure what they mean by that, but it's funny anyway.
And we should seize the opportunity to loaf, because it must be said that the men in black
don't exactly have a reputation for silliness.
All for the cover of TEN, their new album, which just happens to be their tenth,
features the band in drag as Margaret Thatcher and Benazir Bhutto,
all disguised as Yasser Arafat, amongst others, which is rather funny.
Me have been a Stranglers fan for almost 15 years now,
and not only because Jean-Jacques Burnel happens to be a Frenchman,
born and bred, who expresses himself in English infinitely better than I do.
For the past three years, apart from the old single,
we have hardly heard from them, which is why I'm so happy now.
Oh yes, I am.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ 16 years and nearly a thousand gigs [F] after they formed,
the Stranglers still have their hard man [Bb] image,
and in Britain at least, they seem stuck with it. _
[Am] I mean, France, they treat us as intellectuals, don't they?
Whereas here, we're sort of _ mischievous_
yobs, I suppose.
One recent journalist [C] described us as misfits, and I think he was probably right.
That's very weird.
We are misfits.
[Ab] We don't fit into the system of things,
and _ _
[E] so I suppose we're noticeable.
I _ mean, we started when most bands are retiring.
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[B] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [Gb] God, you're like the [B] way I move when you see me.
[Gb] God, you're like the things that [B] I see.
Never unduly [Gb] bothered by the constraints [B] of good taste,
the band still deny [Db] that they've deliberately set out to shock.
You can shock anyone if you [Abm] think about it.
I don't think the public is shocked by the Stranglers.
I mean, I think they're titillated by the Stranglers, [E] not shocked.
I mean, [Ab] everybody goes out and buys the shocking daily tabloids.
[A] For titillation, I don't think we're shocked, you know?
[Bm] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ As Antoine mentioned [Em] earlier, the cover of the [G] Stranglers' new album,
Ten, [A] features them dressed as world leaders of both sexes.
How did the men [D] in black become the men [G] in drag?
[Ab] I think it's one of those ideas that you have on a drunken late evening
when [A] you're exchanging ideas.
[Ab] _ [E] _ [G] Jon loves doing those sort of things.
I do this in my spare time.
So Benazir Bhutto and Margaret Thatcher, that was no problem.
I mean, we had more problem finding someone prepared to do_
Who was it?
Arafat.
Arafat, yes, that was very difficult.
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[G] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ Two naked teatraps
_ _ [Eb] For one half [G] to decry
Two _ _ _ naked teatraps
_ For one half to carry on
The Stranglers' latest single, 96 Tears,
was a 1966 hit for Question Mark and the Mysterians.
It was only a couple of years ago that the band covered another 60s classic,
The Kinks, All Day and All of the Night. _
[Em] _ Well, we're good at [F] covers, we admit that.
Every song we've covered [G] has been successful.
And [Ab] this song was muted as a possible cover
with lots of [Abm] long discussions between us and Roy,
[C] Thomas Baker and our management.
And we listened to it and it seemed perfect for [E] us
because it's got that lovely keyboard riff and a strong bass line.
It's very simple.
[B] So it's fitted in with [C] a lot of these other songs.
And we [Em] heard it perfectly.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ If you get a taste, it ain't enough
To eat [Bm] your food, you need the [Em] stuff
You think you're tough, about to land
But is the [E] trip just what you planned? _
[A] _ _ [Bm] Oh, man, _ yes, [C] you're falling
[D] Punkasaurs they may [Bm] be, but the Stranglers [G] are unlikely to become extinct
with [Em] the kind of support which has made their fan club legendary.
_ [G] _ [Gb] We don't regard it as a fan club, although it's [Ab] _ _ _ an information service.
But I think we have more subscribers than any other band. _
_ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _
[F] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Db] _ [Bb] And now from the [Ab] men in black to a black woman.
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Claim they've become punk-a-thors, like dinosaurs, but with punk instead of dine.
I'm not quite sure what they mean by that, but it's funny anyway.
And we should seize the opportunity to loaf, because it must be said that the men in black
don't exactly have a reputation for silliness.
All for the cover of TEN, their new album, which just happens to be their tenth,
features the band in drag as Margaret Thatcher and Benazir Bhutto,
all disguised as Yasser Arafat, amongst others, which is rather funny.
Me have been a Stranglers fan for almost 15 years now,
and not only because Jean-Jacques Burnel happens to be a Frenchman,
born and bred, who expresses himself in English infinitely better than I do.
For the past three years, apart from the old single,
we have hardly heard from them, which is why I'm so happy now.
Oh yes, I am.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ 16 years and nearly a thousand gigs [F] after they formed,
the Stranglers still have their hard man [Bb] image,
and in Britain at least, they seem stuck with it. _
[Am] I mean, France, they treat us as intellectuals, don't they?
Whereas here, we're sort of _ mischievous_
yobs, I suppose.
One recent journalist [C] described us as misfits, and I think he was probably right.
That's very weird.
We are misfits.
[Ab] We don't fit into the system of things,
and _ _
[E] so I suppose we're noticeable.
I _ mean, we started when most bands are retiring.
_ [Gb] _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [Gb] God, you're like the [B] way I move when you see me.
[Gb] God, you're like the things that [B] I see.
Never unduly [Gb] bothered by the constraints [B] of good taste,
the band still deny [Db] that they've deliberately set out to shock.
You can shock anyone if you [Abm] think about it.
I don't think the public is shocked by the Stranglers.
I mean, I think they're titillated by the Stranglers, [E] not shocked.
I mean, [Ab] everybody goes out and buys the shocking daily tabloids.
[A] For titillation, I don't think we're shocked, you know?
[Bm] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ As Antoine mentioned [Em] earlier, the cover of the [G] Stranglers' new album,
Ten, [A] features them dressed as world leaders of both sexes.
How did the men [D] in black become the men [G] in drag?
[Ab] I think it's one of those ideas that you have on a drunken late evening
when [A] you're exchanging ideas.
[Ab] _ [E] _ [G] Jon loves doing those sort of things.
I do this in my spare time.
So Benazir Bhutto and Margaret Thatcher, that was no problem.
I mean, we had more problem finding someone prepared to do_
Who was it?
Arafat.
Arafat, yes, that was very difficult.
_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ Two naked teatraps
_ _ [Eb] For one half [G] to decry
Two _ _ _ naked teatraps
_ For one half to carry on
The Stranglers' latest single, 96 Tears,
was a 1966 hit for Question Mark and the Mysterians.
It was only a couple of years ago that the band covered another 60s classic,
The Kinks, All Day and All of the Night. _
[Em] _ Well, we're good at [F] covers, we admit that.
Every song we've covered [G] has been successful.
And [Ab] this song was muted as a possible cover
with lots of [Abm] long discussions between us and Roy,
[C] Thomas Baker and our management.
And we listened to it and it seemed perfect for [E] us
because it's got that lovely keyboard riff and a strong bass line.
It's very simple.
[B] So it's fitted in with [C] a lot of these other songs.
And we [Em] heard it perfectly.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ If you get a taste, it ain't enough
To eat [Bm] your food, you need the [Em] stuff
You think you're tough, about to land
But is the [E] trip just what you planned? _
[A] _ _ [Bm] Oh, man, _ yes, [C] you're falling
[D] Punkasaurs they may [Bm] be, but the Stranglers [G] are unlikely to become extinct
with [Em] the kind of support which has made their fan club legendary.
_ [G] _ [Gb] We don't regard it as a fan club, although it's [Ab] _ _ _ an information service.
But I think we have more subscribers than any other band. _
_ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _
[F] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Db] _ [Bb] And now from the [Ab] men in black to a black woman.
The Poison Ivy moved to New York in 1975