Marc Almond - Jacky (Jacques Brel & Gérard Jouannest)
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There's multiple key changes from F#m to Gb throughout the song but to make things easier I have kept
the same key and sharps/flats chord notation in the whole song - The chords listed are merely suggestions that
will work for a solo performance.
Suggested Chords
E|-----------------| F#m7 G#m7 F#m C#m7 F# F#maj7 C#7 G#m G#mMaj7 C# A# D#m A#m D E
E|--2----4-----9----9----6----6------4----4-----4------4---6---6----6---5---7--|
B|--2----4-----10---9----7----6------6----4-----4------6---6---7----6---7---9--|
G|--2----4-----11---9----6----6------4----4-----4------6---7---8----6---7---9--|
D|--2----4-----11---9----8----8------6----6-----5------6---8---8----8---7---9--|
A|--4----6-----9----11---9----9------4----6-----6------4---8---6----8---5---7--|
E|--2----4-----X----9----X----X------x----4-----4------X---6---X----6---X---X--|
[Intro]
F#m7G#m7F#m7G#m7F#m7G#m7F#m7G#m7F#m
Jack, Jack
[Verse]
F#mC#m7F#mC#m7F#mC#m7F#mC#m7
And if one day I should become, a singer with a Spanish bum who sings for women of great virtue
F#mC#m7F#mC#m7F#mC#m7F#mC#m7
I'd sing to them with a guitar I borrowed from a coffee bar, Well what you don't know doesn't hurt you
F#F#maj7F#
My name would be Antoni-o and all my bridges I would burn
F#maj7G#m7C#7G#m7C#7
And when I gave them some they'd know I'd expect something in return
G#m G#mMaj7 G#m7
I'd have to get drunk every night and talk about virili-ty
C#A#A#7
With some old grandmother that might be decked out like a Christmas tree
D#mA#mD#mA#mD#m
And no pink elephant I'd see, though I'd be drunk as I could be
A#mD#mA#mF#
Still I would sing my song to me about the time they called me "Jacky"
[Chorus]
F#F#maj7F#F#maj7G#m
If I could be for only an hour, If I could be for an hour every day
G#m7 G#m G#mMaj7 G#m7 C# N.C. F# D E F#m
If I could be for just one little hour, Cute in a stupid ass way Jacky
[Verse]
F#mC#m7F#mC#m7F#mC#m7F#mC#m7
And if I joined the social whirl became pro-curer of young girls, then I could have my own bor-dellos
F#mC#m7F#mC#m7F#mC#m7F#mC#m7
My record would be number one and I'd sell records by the ton, all sung by many other fellows
F#F#maj7F#
My name would then be handsome Jack and I'd sell boats of opi-um
F#maj7G#m7C#7G#m7C#7
Whisky that came from Twicken-ham, authentic queens and phoney virgins
G#m G#mMaj7 G#m7 C#
I'd have a bank on every finger, a finger in every count-ry and every country ruled by me
A#A#7
I'd still know where I'd wanna be
D#mA#mD#mA#mD#m
Locked up in-side my opium den, Surrounded by some china men
A#mD#mA#mF#
I'd sing the song that I sang then, About the time they called me "Jacky"
[Chorus]
F#F#maj7F#F#maj7G#m
If I could be for only an hour, If I could be for an hour every day
G#m7 G#m G#mMaj7 G#m7 C# N.C. F# F#m D E F#m
If I could be for just one little hour, Cute in a stupid ass way (16 bars instumental)
[Verse]
F#mC#m7F#mC#m7F#mC#m7F#mC#m7
Now, tell me, wouldn't it be nice, that if one day in para-dise I'd sing for all the ladies up there
F#mC#m7F#mC#m7F#mC#m7F#mC#m7
And they would sing along with me and we be so happy there to be, 'Cos down be-low is really nowhere
F#F#maj7F#
My name would then be "Jupi-ter" then I would know where I was going
F#maj7G#m7C#7G#m7C#7
Become all knowing, my beard so very long and flowing
G#m G#mMaj7 G#m7
If I could play deaf, dumb and blind because I pitied all man-kind
C#A#A#7
And broke my heart to make things right, I know that every single night
D#mA#mD#mA#mD#m
When my an-gelic work was through, the angels and the Devil too
A#mD#mA#mF#
Could sing my childhood song to me, about the time they called me "Jacky"
[Chorus]
F#F#maj7F#F#maj7G#m
If I could be for only an hour, If I could be for an hour every day
G#m7 G#m G#mMaj7 G#m7 C# N.C. F#
If I could be for just one little hour, Cute in a stupid ass way
[Outro]
G#mF#mG#mF#mDEF#mDEF#
Jacky