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Whoa, Whoa, Whoa
[Verse 1]
F C F
It's a Broad Lic Nic
Bb F
And I'll tell you while I'm able
Bb F
Or I'll smash your skull
Gm C
If you'll not drink enough Black Label
F C F
It's a hard man's drink
Bb F
And though the bottle's broken
Bb F
Put your money on the table
C F
Strain the glass through your teeth
F
So, we grew up lean, mean
Bb F
Kings of the street scene
Bb F
Without a mother's guiding hand
Gm C
To keep us clean
F
Down your rum
Bb F
We'll take life as it comes
Bb F
And all you blue rinse critics
C F
Lick our literary bum
[Verse 2]
Dm
I drank my first pure malt
Gm
Before I was three
Dm
I smoked a pack of Dutch cigarettes
C
My pappy left for me
F
And I romanced a little lass
Bb F
Who was 12 years my elder
Bb F
At the age of six I held her
Bb F
That year I also bed her
Bb F
So before I was seven
C F
My first child was born
[Verse 3]
Dm
I told a pack of filthy lies
Gm
As a politician
Gm Dm
I heard my own confession as an
C
Act of contrition
Dm
I spent ten years as a Trappist monk
Gm Dm
In a village in Tibet (Liar!)
Bb F
And I walked up Everest naked
C F
Just to win a bet
[Interlude]
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Whoa, Whoa
[Verse 4]
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Well, I severed my leg to win a
Bb F
One-legged race
Bb F
And when I won I stitched it
Gm C
Right back into place
F
I fought Mohammed Ali
Bb F
I've seduced Mata Hari
Bb F
I've even worn a sari
Gm C
When I impersonated Gandhi
F C F
And I dare any man here
Bb F
To call me a liar
Bb F
But I swear I've seen Ezekiel
Bb F
I swear I've seen Isaiah
Bb F Gm C
Toasting marshmallows in Beelzebub's fire
[Verse 5]
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And we're mad (Mad!) Bad (Bad!)
Bb F
Dangerous to know
Bb F
We never gave a tinker's cuss
Gm C
About the seeds we'd sow
F
And we stay up late
Bb F
And never be forlorn (Hey!)
Bb F
And when the morning comes around
Gm F
We'll kiss the crack of dawn
[Bridge]
Dm
We took the wax from Kerouacs
Gm Dm
And dusty Dostoevskys
Gm Dm
And when all was said and done
C
Booze was all I had left me
Dm
For, all the world's great thinkers
Gm
Are all a load
Dm
Of pus
[Verse 6]
Bb F
And if you asked how Zarathustra spoke
F
He spake thus:
F
Drink! Drink! Drink!
Bb F
Drink until you're drunk
Bb F
Drink until you can't stand up
Gm C
Till you're roly-poly stung
F
Till your bladder bursts
Bb F
Till you throw a fit to curse
Bb F
Till they lift you up still comatose
C F
And slam you in the hearse
[Interlude]
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Whoa, whoa, Whoa,Whoa
[Otro]
F
And we're good (Good!) Bad (Bad!)
Bb F
Ugly as sin
Bb F
We mixed up cough syrup
G C
With our gin
F
So take your medicine
Bb F
I pray that when I die (Hey!)
Bb F C F
There'll be someone else around to kiss my arse goodbye
F C
Yes I pray, I pray
F C
I pray that when I die
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There'll be someone else around to kiss my arse goodbye