BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - "beautiful" Tablature

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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 18:17:30 +0100
From: Fred Felix <felix@ic.ac.uk>
Subject: b/belle_and_sebastian/beautiful.crd



BEAUTIFUL
By Belle & Sebastian

>From the EP '3... 6... 9... Seconds of Light'
Transcribed by M. R. Waggner
Submitted by Thelonius

Intro
A C#m7 A C#m7 A G#m F#m E

A C#m7
She lay in bed all night watching the colors change

A C#m7
She lay in bed all night watching the morning change

A G#m
F#m E
She lay in bed all night watching the morning change into green and gold

A C#m7
The doctor told her years ago that she was ill

A C#m7
The doctor told her years ago to take a pill

A G#m F#
The doctor told her years ago that she'd go blind if she wasn't careful


C#m7 B
They let Lisa go blind

A G#
The world was at her feet and she was looking down

C#m7 B
They let Lisa go blind

A C#m7
But everyone she knew thought she was beautiful

E
Only slightly mental

C#m7
Beautiful

E
Only tempermental

Cm7
Beautiful

A C#m7
She thought it would be fun to try photograghy

A C#m7
She thought it would be fun to try pornography

A G#m
She thought it would be fun to try most anything

F#
She was tired of sleeping

C#m7 B A G#
They let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind

C#m7 B
They let Lisa go blind


She's looking like a queen

C#m7 A
But if you knew what's going on in her life

F#m B
There'd be a thousand barren mothers there to talk to her

C#m7 A
If you knew what's going on in her life

F#m B
There'd be two hundred troubled teenagers to sit with her

B
And talk to her

E D
If you knew what's going on in her life

A
What's going on in her life

C#
There would be a documentary on Radio 4

(Trumpet solo spot...)

G# E G# E G# E G# B E B C#m7 B C#m7 B C#m7 B

E B C#m7 B C#m7 B C#m7 B C#


A C#m7
She made herself a pair of orthopaedic shoes

A C#m7
She thought is was the answer to the fashion blues

A G#m
She made herself a pair of orthopaedic shoes

F#
But she walked with a limp

C#m7 B A G#
They let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind...

C#m7 B A G# repeats to the end

(for the little tidbit at the very end, just repeat the 1st chorus)

Belle & Sebastian fans would be well advised to browse Paul
Mitchell's appealing site 'Sinister' at
www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~mitchell/sinister/

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