Quietly Alone chords by Kirsty MacColl

SimplifiedC · F · Bb · G · Eb …

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Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
There's an
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C 
F 
old ... coming on my new tv
C 
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C 
So I go out for a quiet drink
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But it costs a packet and
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F 
it's such a racket
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C 
That I can't hear myself think
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Bb 
There's a microchip one armed
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bandit with a screw loose
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A stripper in the corner
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with a face like thunder
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A terrible band playing
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Bb 
C 
"johnny be goode"
G 
So I'd rather go home
and stay quietly alone
C 
F 

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Verse 2
C 
F 
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C 
I get up in the morning with the radio on
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C 
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I do my makeup and I go
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to look for work
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Somebody tells me that
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F 
the job's just gone
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And I've been replaced
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C 
by some computer jerk
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Bb 
I would talk to my boyfriend
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Bb 
but I never can
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F 
'cause a space invader
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F 
stole my man
Bb 
There's a dreadful playing
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Bb 
C 
G 
"johnny be goode"
So I'd rather go home and stay
C 
quietly alone
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C 

Verse 3
F 
Trying to keep my sanity is hard to do
Bb 
Living like a hermit all alone
Eb 
Find an occupation that
won't deafen me
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G 
My sense of reality's gone

Interlude 1

My temperat

Verse 4
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ure is getting
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higher and higher
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And I'm shaking in my jeans
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'cause I get so angry
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F 
when I'm shut in
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C 
With one of those machines
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Bb 
I would talk to my boyfriend
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Bb 
but I never can
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'cause a space invader stole my man
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And the synthesizer's playing
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Bb 
C 
G 
"johnny be goode"
Then I'd rather go home and
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C 
stay quietly alone
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C 
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C 
Quietly alone
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C 
Quietly alone
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Quietly alone
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Quietly alone