Battersea Boys - Chris Difford Chords
Chords: Chris, Boys, F, C, G, E7, D, E, Am, D7
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Genre: rock, pop, new wave
Chris Difford - Battersea Boys
(Difford/Hewerdine)
From the 2008 studio album, The Last Temptation of Chris
The song is played in 3/4 time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVmg7QDxFkc
[Piano Intro]
F | C | G | C
G | G |
[Verse 1]
C E7 F C
Our parents would treat us with carrots and sticks
F C D G
Just two alco-holics up to their old tricks
C E7 F C
Mum played piano and loved Gracie Fields
F C G C G
She would have been famous but we dragged at her heels
[Verse 2]
C E7 F C
Our dad was a big man un-shaven and strong
F C D G
He loved to hear Gracie as she sang her song
C E7 F C
The pub on a Sunday is where she would sing
F C G C
And we’d play out-side ’til the last bell would ring
[Chorus]
F C E Am
My brother was gifted he had a great voice
F C G C
Not like the other young Battersea Boys
[Verse 3]
C E7 F C
He knew every opera and sang in the street
F C D G
With Sally’s Army he’d play tambour-ine
C E7 F C
My dad could not take it he called him a poof
F C D G
For singing Puc-cini so misunder-stood
[Verse 4]
C E7 F C
When he was fourteen my brother was sent
F C D7 G
To the Salvation Army to live with his friends
C E F C
My mum hit the bottle as her son left home
F C G G
Stood in our bedroom and cried all a-lone
[Chorus]
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