Alcohol

Note: Don't let the 9th and 11th 
chords put you off. They simply 
describe the
lagging, lazy melody. The melodic 
pattern descends beautifully as one 
does into
a stupor.

Melody:  E  A  E  G  F F
Words:   Oh demon alcohol..
Chords:  Am      Dm11 Dm

The melody G on 'Alc' is the 
dominant 7th of Am but the 11th of 
the next chord,
Dm.

I transcribed it on a piano, where 
the bass notes alternate sometimes 
from the
5th to the 1st, at other times from 
the 1st-5th. I briefly checked it on
 a
guitar, which I can't play but it 
sounded fine. However, I am not sure
 about a
couple of parts:

Does it really modulate to A major 
for a few bars?
Is the Am on 'the floosie made...' 
right?
If anyone has a different view of 
the chorus changes, I'd like to hear
 them.

Enjoy that meditarraenean/ Kurt 
Weillian thang!!

yours, Ian

Manchester, England, England.


Alcohol

[Intro 16 bars + 16 bars (with 
trumpet)]

Am E Am E....Am E Am E7 etc...

          Am
Here is a story about a sinner,

He used to be a winner who enjoyed a
 life of prominence and
  E/B
position,

But the pressures at the office and 
his socialite engagements,
And his selfish wife's fanatical 
Am
ambition,

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A
It turned him to the booze,

And he got mixed up with a floosie
And she led him to a life of 
 Dm
indecision.
Am
The floosie made him spend his dole

She left him lying on Skid Row
          Am             E7     
A drunken lag in some Salvation 
E7/B Am E7 Am
Army Mission.

E7 (an introductory arpeggio)
It's such a shame.


Am       Dm11 Dm
Oh demon alcohol,
Dm             E7(b9)  E7
Sad memories I cannot recall,
Am          Dm9  Dm
Who thought I would say,
E7           Am11    Am
Damn it all, blow it all,


Am       Dm11 Dm
Oh demon alcohol,
Dm         E7(b9)  E7
Memories I can't   recall,
Am          Dm9            E7   
Who thought I would fall a slave
          Am  E7 Am
 to demon alcohol.

[Repeat  Instrumental on line 1, 
Vocals on 2 and 3 as below]

Dm             E7(b9)  E7
Sad memories I can't  recall,

Am          Dm9            E7   
Who thought I would fall a slave
          Am  E7 Am
 to demon alcohol.

[16 Bars as intro]

Am
Barley wine pink gin,
He'll drink anything,
                E/B
Port, pernod or tequila,
Rum, scotch, vodka on the rocks,
As long as all his troubles 
    Am
disappeared.

A
But he messed up his life when he 
beat up his wife,
And the floosie's gone and found 
        Dm
another sucker
Am
She's gonna turn him on to drink
She's gonna lead him to the brink
And when his money's gone,
       E7        E7/B   Am
She'll leave him in the gutter,

E7 (ascending roll)
It's such a shame.


Am        Dm11
Oh demon alcohol,
Dm                    E7(b9)
Sad memories I cannot recall,
Am          Dm9
Who thought I would fall,
E7           Am11    Am
Damn it all, blow it all.

[Instrumental on  and the 1st line 
of  Vocals on Lines 2 and
3, as below]

Dm             E7(b9)  E7
Sad memories I cannot recall,

Am          Dm9            E7   
Who thought I would fall a slave
          Am  E7 Am
 to demon alcohol.

[A 4 count before the melodic piano 
outro on the changes of ]