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Gangsters by The Specials - Guitar Chords

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Version 1 
            ...GANGSTERS... by The Specials
---------------................

*Released 1979*

(modified from Winston Campbell's original tab: )


[Intro]

(Bernie Rhodes knows; don't argue!)
    A
e|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|
D|-----------------------------|
A|-----------------------------|
E|--5-3-0-3--5-5--5-3-3--0--3--| (x2)

[Verse 1]
Am            G#        Am
 Why must you record my phone calls?
                   G#       Am
Are you planning a bootleg LP?
Am                    G#            Am
 You Said you've been threatened by gangsters
         D          C           E7
Now it's you that's threatening me.

[Verse 2]
Am              G#           Am
 Can't fight corruption with con tricks,
                 G#        Am
They use the law to commit crime.
                      G#              Am
And I dread, dread to think, what the future will bring,
C                    G        E7
When we're living in gangster time.

(Don't call me Scarface)

[Bridge]
    A
e|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|
D|-----------------------------|
A|-----------------------------|
E|--5-3-0-3--5-5--5-3-3--0--3--| (x2)

[Solo]

(Guitar plays):

Am  G#  Am (x3), D  C  E7

e|---------------------------------|
B|--5------------5-6-5-------------|
G|------8--5--8---------8-5-4-2-0--|
D|---------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------| (x3)

e|--5--5-5-5--5--5-8--8-8-8--8--8--|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|

e|--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12--|
B|---------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------|

[Verse 3]
Am          G#             Am
 Don't interrupt while I'm talking,
                      G#          Am
Or they'll confiscate all your guitars,
         G#         Am
A catch 22 says, if I sing the truth
           c          G         E7
They won't make me an overnight star.

[Verse 4]
  Am           G#       
Don't offer us legal protection,
     Am          G#       
They use the law to commit crime.
    G#              Am
And I dread, to think, what the future will bring,
      C              G             E7
When we're living in real gangster time.

(Bernie Rhodes knows; don't argue!)

[Outro]

    A
e|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|
D|-----------------------------|
A|-----------------------------|
E|--5-3-0-3--5-5--5-3-3--0--3--| (x2)

 A
 ........................




CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------

   A       Am      G#      D       C       E7      G

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 577655  577555  466544  x57775  x35553  x79797  355433


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006 ()

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