BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - "marx and engels" Tablature

Belle and Sebastian - Marx and Engels
From I'm Waking Up To Us, 2001.

Capo 3

Intro: D A G D C G Em A

D A G D
There is misery in all I hear and see, from the people on T.V.

C G Em A
After their tea when life begins again, they'll be happier than me

D A
There are a thousand meals being made on Saturday

G D C G
From the view I saw today, I took a bet inside the launderette,

Em A
With a girl from Wallesey

D A G
She spoke in dialect, I could not understand, but one thing that

D C G D
She made clear, there was no coming on to her, there was no way.


Interlude from D: A G D C G Em A x2


(Repeat Verse)


Conclusion:

C G G
There was no coming on to her, there was no intellect, that she

Em D C Em
Could respect, if it couldn't see, that the girl just wants to be

G D
Left alone with Marx and Engels for awhile,

C Em A
She's writing in style, of any riot girl.


What a ballad; Aquinas says 'pulcra sunt quae visa placent'
...perhaps if Belle and Sebastian were around in his day,
he would have changed eyes to ears.

R. T. Devitt.