Jangly Transcription: The Greatest Living Englishman

Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:49:58 +0100
From: Tim Harris <TimH@wordsrus.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Newell chords.....GLE....Xmas in....
Message-ID: <wi6nHDAG5YG9EwZb@wordsrus.demon.co.uk>


The Greatest Living Englishman       Martin Newell

(friendly chords! actual key is 4 semitones lower)


[Eb(no3rd)    Eb7(no3rd)]   rpt

G                C                   F                    Bb
Liberty bags and pink carnations and whistle from Saville Row
  G                   C                  F                 Bb
I measured my life in invitations but it seems a long time ago

    Asus4      Gsus4         Bb
[B] Ah some you win some you lose
   Asus4/D  Gsus4/C          Bb
    I never had those guilty blues


    Bm         D/A            G       D/F#            Em7
[A] How they'd love to see me now - a prisoner in the tower
              C               D
    I was the greatest living Englishman


Bm        D/A        G               D/F#      Em7
Debts but very few regrets up in the misty minarets
          C               D
I was the greatest living Englishman

It's such a long way from barrowboy up to position of Doctor Gas

But with a good spiel and a decent ploy you'll spin

                                     media hype from trash

Ah well we were the coming men       and there was so much money then

Repeat [A]


[C] High, enough to wonder why - it would have been mad not to try

    To be the greatest living Englishman

Eb(no3rd)   Eb7(no3rd)
Such a long way........


They tell me I was a social animal the way the champagne was splashed

The warning light only showed on cannibal the day that my empire crashed

Rpt [B]  [A]  [C]  [A]to

                     C
                 the greatest living.
                     C/Bb
                 the greatest living.
                     C/A       C/G       [Eb(no3rd)   Eb7(no3rd)]rpt
                 the greatest living      English.....man

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Tim Harris