SEX PISTOLS - "belsen was a gas" Tablature

Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 12:27:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Glen Norman Pavan <senomar@UDel.Edu>


artist: Sex Pistols
title: Belsen Was a Gas
album: The Great Rock and Roll Swindle
tuning: standard

There are two differing versions of this tune, the Sex Pistols version
with Johnny Rotten and the one with Ronald Biggs. Here's both.

F-G means slide up from the F to the G

w/ Johnny Rotten

intro: D C D Eb D C G x2
D C D Eb
Belsen was a gas I heard ...
D C G
In the open graves ...
D C D Eb
Life is fun and I wish ...
D C G
They wrote on ...

chorus (played twice)
C G C G C G F-G F-G
oh dear oh ...

second verse
Sergeant majors on the ....

chorus (twice)
so bad so ...

intro

repeat first verse

outro: ad lib chorus


with Ronald Biggs:

ok, this time for real Belsen was a gasser


intro: D C Bb C D C G x2

verse
D C Bb C
Belsen was a gas I heard ...
D C G
In the open graves ...
D C Bb C
Life is fun and I wish you ...
D C G
They wrote on postcards ...

chorus (same as other version)

second verse
Dentists search their teeth ....

chorus
kill a man be a ....

intro

third verse
Wonder what the jews ....

chorus
Ledbetter Ledbetter Ledbetter

outro: ad lib chorus


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