Picadilly Palare

album: Bona Drag
Intro: F#m, A
F#m          B
    Off the rails I was and
Off the rails
                  F#m
I was happy to stay
    E
GET OUT OF MY WAY
F#m, A, F#m, A
F#m        B
   On the rack I was
                                    F#m
Easy meat, and a reasonably good buy
   E
A reasonably good buy
F#m, A
F#m                E
    The Piccadilly palare
   B
Was just silly slang
F#m                     A           F#m
Between me and the boys in my gang
                E         B
"So Bona to Vada. OH YOU
     F#m
Your lovely eek and
     A
Your lovely riah"
F#m, A (x4)
F#m          B
    We plied an ancient trade
Where we threw all life's
                  F#m
Instructions away
                E
Exchanging lies and digs (my way)
F#m, A (x2)
F#m            B
   Cause in a belted coat
Oh, I secretly knew
                     B  E
That I hadn't a clue
(No, no. No, no, no. You can't get there that way. Follow me...)
F#m                E
    The Piccadilly palare
   B
Was just silly slang
F#m                     A           F#m
Between me and the boys in my gang
                 E
Exchanging palare
                B
You wouldn't understand
     F#m            A
Good sons like you
NEVER C .
E, B, F#m, A (x2)
F#m, A (x4)
F#m                  E
    So why do you smile
                     A
When you think about Earl's Court ?
         E
But you cry when you think of all
      A                   F#m
The battles you've fought (and lost) ?
F#m                         E
    It may all end tomorrow
       B                 F#m
Or it could go on forever
          A               E
In which case I'm doomed
   B                   F#m
It could go on forever
          A
In which case I'm doomed