Beasley Street chords by JOHN COOPER CLARKE

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Dm 
Far from
crazy pavements
Am 
The taste of silver spoons
Dm 
A clinical arrangement
Am 
On a dirty afternoon
Dm 
Where the fecal germs of Mr Freud
Am 
Are rendered obsolete
C 
B 
The legal term is "null and void"
Bm 
D 
Dm 
In the case of  Beasley Street

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Verse 2
Dm 
In the cheap seats where
murder breeds
Am 
Somebody is out of breath
Dm 
Sleep is a luxury they don't need
Am 
Dm 
A sneak preview of death
Am 
Belladonna is your flower
Manslaughter your meat
C 
B 
Spend a year in a couple of hours
D 
On the edge of Beasley Street
Dm 

Verse 3
Am 
Where the action isn't
Dm 
That's where it is
State your position
Am 
Vacancies exist
Dm 
In an X-  certificate exercise
Am 
Ex- servicemen excrete
C 
G 
Bm 
Keith Joseph smiles and a baby dies
D 
In a box on Beasley Street

Verse 4
Dm 
From the boarding- houses
and the bedsits
Am 
Full of accidents and fleas
Dm 
Somebody gets it
Am 
Where the missing persons
Dm 
freeze
Wearing dead men's overcoats
Am 
You can't see their feet
C 
G 
Bm 
A riff joint shuts, opens up
D 
Right down on Beasley Street
Dm 

Verse 5
Cars collide, colours clash
Am 
Disaster- movie stuff
Dm 
For a man with a Fu Manchu moustache
Am 
Revenge is not enough
Dm 
There's a dead canary
on a swivel seat
Am 
There's a rainbow in the road
C 
G 
Bm 
Meanwhile on Beasley Street
D 
Silence is the code

Interlude 1

Verse 6
Dm 
Hot beneath the collar
Am 
An inspector calls
Dm 
Where the perishing stink of squalor
Am 
Impregnates the walls
Dm 
The rats have all got rickets
Am 
They spit through broken teeth
C 
G 
The name of the game is not cricket
D 
Dm 
Caught out on Beasley Street

Verse 7
Dm 
The hipster and his hired hat
Am 
Dm 
Drive a borrowed car
Am 
Yellow socks and a pink cravat
Nothing, la- dee- dah
Dm 
OAP, mother- to- be
Am 
Watch the three- piece suite
C 
When shit- stoppered drains
G 
And crocodile skis
D 
Are seen on Beasley Street

Verse 8
Dm 
The kingdom of the blind
Am 
Dm 
A one- eyed man is king
Beauty problems are redefined
Am 
The doorbells do not ring
Dm 
A lightbulb bursts like a blister
Am 
The only form of heat
C 
Em 
Here a fellow sells his sister
D 
Down the river on Beasley Street

Verse 9
Dm 
The boys are on the wagon
Am 
Dm 
The girls are on the shelf
Their common problem is
Am 
That they're not someone else
Dm 
The dirt blows out
The dust blows in
Am 
You can't keep it neat
C 
G 
It's a fully furnished dustbin
D 
Sixteen Beasley Street

Verse 10
Dm 
Vince the ageing savage
Am 
Betrays no kind of life
Dm 
But the smell of yesterday's cabbage
Am 
And the ghost of last
year's wife
Dm 
Through a constant haze
Am 
Of deodorant sprays
C 
He says retreat
G 
Alsations dog the dirty days
D 
G 
Down the middle of Beasley Street

Verse 11
Dm 
People turn to poison
Am 
Quick as lager turns to piss
Dm 
Sweethearts are physically sick
Am 
Every time they kiss
Dm 
Am 
It's a sociologist's paradise
Each day repeats
C 
G 
On easy, cheesy, greasy, queasy
D 
Beastly Beasley Street

Verse 12
Dm 
Am 
Eyes dead as vicious fish
Look around for laughs
Dm 
If I could have just one wish
Am 
I would be  a photograph
Dm 
On a permanent Monday morning
Am 
Get lost or fall asleep
C 
Em 
When the yellow cats are yawning
D 
Dm 
Around the back of Beasley Street