heliocentric@breathe.com
February 4th 2001. 1.36pm
SON OF A GUN by THE LA'S
Written by Lee Mavers
From the album 'The La's' (Go! Discs, 1990)
Chords used:
Standard tuning (EADGBe)
C: x32010
Bb: x1333x
F: 133211
Or alternatively you could tune your guitar down a tone to
DGCFAd
and use these shapes:
C: xx0232
Bb x32033 (Bbadd9)
F: 320033
(x4)
If you want
I'll sell you a life story
About a man who's a loggerheads with his past all the time
He's alive
and living in purgatory
All he's doing is rooming in hotels
And scooping up lots of wine
There was once a boy of life
Who lived upon the knife
He took his share of everywhere
But he never took a wife...
He was born
To live like a mercenary
Well personally I think that's fine
If you're in the right mind
He was bur - ned by the twentieth century
Now he's doing time in the back of his mind
He can hear them outside
Better run, rabbit run
Run into the sun
Kick your heels in the killing fields
Run rabbit run
You're the son of a gun
(x8)
He was born to live like a mercenary
Well personally I think that's fine
If you're in the right mind.