Key: F major
Verse 1
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D
A
G
Me and my brother
A
G
B
About what makes a man a man
A
G
We just couldn't understand
B
E
Our old man didn't like
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F#
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long hair
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G
So me and my brother borrowed
A
G
we knew what we had to do
B
G
We went downstairs
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G
B
We got our arms tattooed
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B
Welcome to my life tattooed
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B
I'm a man now thanks to you
I expect I'll regret you
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E
F#sus4
To be there when I die
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D
A
G
Dsus4
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D
My dad beat me, cos mine said mother
E
A
My mother actually liked it
G
B
and beat my brother
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D
Cos his tattoo was of a lady in the nude
G
B
that was extremely rude
That rhyme had never been
used before at that time.
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B
Welcome to my life, Tattoo.
We've a long time together,
E
B
me and you.
I expect I'll regret you,
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B
E
but the skin graft man won't get you.
B
E
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F#
You'll be there when I die, Tattoo.
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D
A
G
Dsus4
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B
my wife is tattooed too
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D
Rooty tooty too, rooty tooty too too,
A
G
rooty tooty too, tattooed too
isn't it?
B
To you
I've always had difficulty,
you know, finishing things really,
you know, I mean
I got to the end of Tommy
and I didn't know what to do with Tommy,
he'd been through all this terrible stuff
and, you know,
we all really identified with him
and, God,
what's he going to do
at the end of the story?
And I just didn't know what to do,
I sent him up this mountain. Go!
Up up you go.
At the end of Quadrifina,
this poor screwed up little kid,
you know, he can't get the girl,
he crashes his scooter.
You know, the guy he thinks is a great guy ends up, he's a
bellhop, you know, it's just,
and he goes to the sea, and it's flat.
No, nothing,
and it smells a bit funny, too.
In the distance,
there's somebody going,
So he gets a boat and he goes out
and he gets on the rock and then,
gets on the rock
and well then it's the end!
It kind of happens like that at the end of Tattoo,
you know, you get to the end
and you're thinking,
my wife is tattooed too
and yes, well a Rudy too,
C#m
C#m
toodle toodle.
I'm going to do collings,
give me the collings. time.
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