The Best Years Of Our Lives

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Intro

It was just like a dream, yeah, a surreal scene, like a blue orange

I thought my senses had gone, like I was writing a song about a foot-long syringe

And she said, "Hello, dear, it's my party

"So I hope you'll be smart, hee hee And I

said,"I don't know, but I think I'll go fix me

A(Intro riff")

a stiff drink"

Well, I sat there and stared, because at first I was scared of this female tarzan

And while she talked with the apes about champagne and grapes, I approached her garden

And she said,"Now, now, don't try to leave me,

"It's unfair to deceive me

"I could kill if you try to escape me,

A (intro riff)

come upstairs my friend"

Now I knew, I knew, I couldn't be that mean,

Emin Bmin F G A A sus

so I tried, yeah I really tried to leave her but she was a big, big, big girl, big girl

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MR. RAFFLES

Man, it was mean to be seen in the robes you wore for Lent

you must've known that it was Easter

There for a while, in your smile, I could see Mexico blood say

"This is true I was a teaser"

B B(b5) (see below)

There were a thousand manitas

being exchanged for pesetas

B(b5) - B with 5th flattened G#7/C

Man, It was hard not to laugh out loud

I couldn't believe the size of the crowd

You must have fooled them into coming

Wow, There were women and children, too

They would have hanged us if they knew I think I know for certain

Inside you sniggered so hearty, you only came for the party

Man, it was mean, it was mean, Man, it was mean

You think you're so importantly clever

I'll tell you now where thats at

You can be this way forever and ever

sooner or later you'll fall

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IT WASN'T ME

It wasn't me who wrote the epitaph

I only burned the old girl's photograph

And threw the kitten in the fire, see

You ask me your father he'll remember me

It was so fantastic, he burned like a matchstick

You know I'm sorry for what I've done

Now you say I'm responsible for killing them

I say it was God He was willing them

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PANORAMA

Murder follows me like a leech from sunset, hard on my

heels to the midnight beach

Multitudes of every skin, around the glowing sparks

they begin to sing

Everybody is watching the dancer, all the way from Barcelona

Teddy Boy's are farming, it's all a little alarming

I felt forty-five and was barely alive

Whoa oh woh oh

I saw a human tribe and was terrified

Whoa oh woh oh

(solo over Amin G F Emin Emin G)

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Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me)

Intro

You've done it all..

... You've broken every code....

And pulled the rebel to the floor... You spoilt the

Game no matter what you say....

For only metal what a bore..........

Blue eyes Blue eyes

How come you tell... So many lies..

Come up and see... me make me smile..............

Or do what you want run on wild...............

Ooh...........................la la la

Ooh...........................la la la

Ooh..........................

Come up and see... me make me smile..............

Or do what you want run on wild...............

Chords in solo F Em F Am Em Em G G Dm F C G Dm F C G G

Solo starts like

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Only twilight, calm and barkless; no more daylight, only darkness;

Only twilight, only twilight made the change without delay

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49TH PARALLEL

Think I'll have lines on my face

When I get out of this place

So I guess I'll be ever so careful

It wouldn't help to deny

I'm well advised to comply

By the rules or be ever so tearful

I caught a vulture, he came up behind me

I put a chain on his claws

I caught another, been trying to find me

I slit a vein in his jaws

Tied the two of them up with guitar-strings (only fed them a bone)

Grinned and put my hands in my pockets

To drift away to a land of my own

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THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

European Maids, hard to ignore

You, me and the boys, barred from the shore

Fresh-faced imbeciles, laughing at me

I've been laughing myself, is that so hard to see?

Do I have to spell each letter out, honestly!

If there's no room for laughter there's no room for me

For me....

You'll think it's tragic when that moment arrives

Ah, but it's magic, it's the best years of our lives