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(@rodders)
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Right then it looks as tho' I have some catching up to do.

I have just been playing this one and wow is this an awsome song, penned by Glen Tilbrook & Chris Difford. Now these guys know how to write a song, (remember "Up The Junction"? almost a film script!)
Thier songs create atmosphere and feeling and tell wonderful stories. Mark my words these songs are already classics (IMHO) :wink:
You should find it quite easy as its mostly open chords except for the F#m which is brobably one of the easiest bare chords.

Anyway enough banter here's the song,
Chords used
D x00232
A x02220
D7 xx0212
Em 022000
G 355433 or 320002
F#m 244222

D
She unscrews the top off her new whisky bottle
D A
She hobbles about in her candlelit hovel
A
Like some kind of witch, with blue fingers in mittens
A D
She smells like a cat, and the nieghbours she sickens
D
Her black and white TV has long seen a picture
D7 Em
The cross on the wall is a permenent fixture
A
The postman deliveres, the final reminders
A G / F#m / Em / D
She sells off her silver, and poodles in china

Chorus.
D E7
Drinks to remember I, me and myself
A D
Winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf
E7
Home is a love that I miss very much
A G / F#m / Em / D
So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love

D
During the wartime an American pilot
D A
Made every air-raid a time of excitement
A
She moved to his prairie and married the texan
A D
She'd learn from a distance how love was a lesson
D
He became drinker and she became mother
D7 Em
She knew that one day she'd be one or the other
A
He ate himself old and drank himself dizzy
A G / F#m / Em / D
Proud of her features, she kept herself pretty

Chorus.
D E7
Drinks to remember I, me and myself
A D
Winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf
E7
Home is a love that I miss very much
A G / F#m / Em / D
So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love

D
He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber
D A
Out on the porch in the middle of summer
A
She crossed the ocean back home to her family
A D
But they had retired to roads that are sandy
D
She moved home alone without friends or relations
D7 Em
Lived in a world full of age reservations
A
Her moth eaten armchair, she'd say that she's sod all
A G / F#m / Em / D
Friends who have left her, to drink from the bottle

Chorus.
D E7
Drinks to remember I, me and myself
A D
Winds up the clock, and knocks dust from the shelf
E7
Home is a love that I miss very much
A G / F#m / Em / D
So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love
A G / F#m / Em / D
So the past has been bottled, and labeled with love
A G / F#m / Em / D
The past --- has been bottled, -- and la--be --led with --- love

Ok, you need to try and get the G / F#m / Em / D run down timed with each of the last words in the chorus. I know its quite a quick change chord sequence but if you start of slowly and build up your speed on this its well worth it.

Enjoy this fantastic song,

Rod.

Be excellent to each other & party on dudes!
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(@vic-lewis-vl)
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Great stuff Rodders, I was a big fan of Squeeze...did you see Jools' Hootenanny? Great version of "Cool for Cats", I thought....also a big fan of Jools, I LOVE watching that guy play piano....

A lot of bands were experimenting with Country around this time - Elvis Costello's "Good Year For The Roses" for example...

Anyway, I'll have to have a go at this....

BTW, when we saw Status Quo at the Liverpool Pops in July, Paul Carrack was the support act - he was outstanding, did a superb version of "Tempted"....he's on my must-see-again list....

Thamks again for this - sigh - so many songs, so little time...working on a tab at the moment, I guarantee you and Chris'll like it....

:D :D :D

Vic

"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)


   
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(@chuckntracy05)
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Great tune, I play this one as well. Exactly as you have penned out. Cheers.


   
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(@rodders)
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Great stuff Rodders, I was a big fan of Squeeze...did you see Jools' Hootenanny? Great version of "Cool for Cats", I thought....also a big fan of Jools, I LOVE watching that guy play piano....

Yes Vic I did see Jools's Hootenanny, I always watch his shows whenever they are on regardless of who he's got performing. I esspecially liked K T Tunstall this year, her performance of "black Horse and the Cherry tree" was terrific, I often have a go at that when the acoustics out of its box and usually make a complete balls up of it :lol: :lol: :lol:

I saw Glenn Tilbrook performing solo a couple of years ago in Birmingham at the NEC Music Live show, I like his voice a lot, its very unsual, sort of rasping / grating yet still nice to listen to.

Glad you like the song guys. :wink:

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(@heyesie)
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Good one Rodder
I love this song.
Are you just strumming with this song or are you using any specific picking.

:)

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(@rodders)
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Hi Heyesie,

I rarely use any specific strumming pattern, I just tend to try and find the groove and see where that gets me :D

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(@chuckntracy05)
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I normally play it with a country swing feel. bass note, dud, bass note, dud, etc. Works for me.


   
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(@heyesie)
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Sounds good to me.
I have just been playing the CD.
The bass going on in the background is brilliant
Anyone worked that out.

:)

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(@womanfromtokyo)
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Been away for a while but now I'm back and boy is there a load of stuff been posted. But I just gotta say that this one is soooooooooooo cool. I've always loved Squeeze from their first hit to their last. Brilliant, brilliant stuff. :)

I love rock & roll so put another dime in the juke-box baby !


   
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(@rodders)
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Thamks again for this - sigh - so many songs, so little time...working on a tab at the moment, I guarantee you and Chris'll like it....
:D :D :D
Vic

This must be some tab Vic or have you put it aside for now? I must say I am intrigued tho'.

Rod. :wink:

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