Beasley Street chords by
John Cooper Clarke

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Dm Dm 
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Far from
crazy pavements
Am Am 
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The taste of silver spoons
Dm Dm 
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A clinical arrangement
Am Am 
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On a dirty afternoon
Dm Dm 
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Where the fecal germs of Mr Freud
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Are rendered obsolete
C C 
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B B 2
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The legal term is "null and void"
Bm Bm 2
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D D 
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Dm Dm 
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In the case of  Beasley Street

Verse 2
Dm Dm 
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In the cheap seats where
murder breeds
Am Am 
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Somebody is out of breath
Dm Dm 
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Sleep is a luxury they don't need
Am Am 
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Dm Dm 
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A sneak preview of death
Am Am 
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Belladonna is your flower
Manslaughter your meat
C C 
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B B 2
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Spend a year in a couple of hours
D D 
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On the edge of Beasley Street
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Verse 3
Am Am 
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Where the action isn't
Dm Dm 
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That's where it is
State your position
Am Am 
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Vacancies exist
Dm Dm 
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In an X-  certificate exercise
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Ex- servicemen excrete
C C 
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G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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Keith Joseph smiles and a baby dies
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In a box on Beasley Street

Verse 4
Dm Dm 
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From the boarding- houses
and the bedsits
Am Am 
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Full of accidents and fleas
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Somebody gets it
Am Am 
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Where the missing persons
Dm Dm 
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freeze
Wearing dead men's overcoats
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You can't see their feet
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G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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A riff joint shuts, opens up
D D 
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Right down on Beasley Street
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Verse 5
Cars collide, colours clash
Am Am 
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Disaster- movie stuff
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For a man with a Fu Manchu moustache
Am Am 
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Revenge is not enough
Dm Dm 
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There's a dead canary
on a swivel seat
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There's a rainbow in the road
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G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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Meanwhile on Beasley Street
D D 
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Silence is the code

Interlude 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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