Strange Bedfellows chords by JOHN COOPER CLARKE

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Am 
A copper's
nark...
Em 
The cautious talk of
a city under suspicion
Am 
A perfumed collision...
Em 
With the real meaning of a girl

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Verse 2

Working in the dark... from

the velvet shadows...

In the... black- wood of

engines

YOU'RE in suspension...

In the best of all possible

worlds

Verse 3
Am 
Furnished rooms...
Em 
In tune... with the frozen
taste of money
Am 
A broken television
Em 
Flickers in the corner of one eye

Verse 4
Am 
A variety show
Em 
That goes below... the
freezing point of numbers
Am 
To understand... an episode
Em 
Of  a dream that money can

Interlude 1

buy

Verse 5
Am 
When a necromancer's crucifix...
Em 
And fifty dead assistants...
Am 
A beer by a dried UP fountain
Em 
It's the festival of the
spoons: whatever that is

Verse 6
Am 
TWO scrumpets dance with
rainbow feathers...
Em 
On the lines of least resistance...
F 
Into the middle distance...
Dm 
C 
Bb 
Of  a supermarket tune

Interlude 2

Familiar ground...

Verse 7
Am 
Em 
He  stops her breath with the sneak-
Am 
thief kiss of a roscoe
Em 
Am 
Love letters from Moscow
Em 
Calling for the hard- ware of surprise
Am 
In a jealous town...
Em 
Where

Verse 8

desperation...

Isn't worth the trouble

Meet your double... in an episode...

Of a dream that money can buy

Verse 9
C 
Bye bye love
Am 
C 
Em 
Say goodnight irene: to the
magnetism of the MOMENT
C 
The future fails to feature
Em 
C 
Em 
Beyond the forcefields of their eyes

Verse 10
Am 
Decadant waves: Depraved Danger
Em 
C 
Em 
Or  a plaything of the rodents
Am 
Not quite the kind of creature
Em 
With whom they socialise