Memo From Turner - Rolling Stones, ukulele chords

Published: 2011-02-24 20:02
Selection chords: Sofia Davis

           G                  G7                   C7
 Didnʼt I see you down in San Antone on a hot and dusty night?
                                   G                       C7
 You were eating eggs in Sammyʼs when the black man there drew his knife.
 G              G                                     C7
 Or you drowned that Jew in Rampton as he washed his sleevless shirt.
                       C7                      G
 You know that Spanish speaking gentleman, the one that we call Kurt.
  
 Am  F  G
  
 Bm       Am                C               G
 Come now, gentleman, I know thereʼs some mistake
        Bm            Am            C                   G
 How forgetful Iʼm becoming now you fixed your business straight
  
      G                            C7               G
 I remember you in Hemlock Road in nineteen fifty six
             G                               C7              G
 You were a faggy little leather boy with a smaller piece of stick
            G
 You were a lashing smashing hunk of a man,
      C                      G
 your sweat shined sweet and strong
      C7                G                      Am
 Your organʼs working perfectly, but thereʼs a part
            F             D7
 thatʼs not   screwed on
  
 G  D7  G  D7  G  D7  G  D7
  
             G                               C                 G
 Werenʼt you at the Coke Convention back in nineteen sixty five
  
 Youʼre the misbred grey executive Iʼve seen heavily advertised
             G                                       C                  G
 Youʼre the great grey man whose daughter licks policemenʼs buttons clean
    C                         G
 Youʼre the man who squats behind the man
            Am          F             G
 who works            the soft machine
 Bm         Am                 C             G
 Come now, gentlemen, your love  is all I crave
           Bm            Am                C
 Youʼll still be in the circus when Iʼm laughing,
                               G
 laughing            in my grave
  
        G                               C7                G
 Well remember who you say you are but keep your noses clean
         G                                   C                    G
 Boys will be boys and play with toys. So be   strong with your beast
    G                                        C                    G
 Oh Rosie dear, donʼcha think itʼs queer. So stop me if you please
     C7               G
 The babyʼs dead, my lady said.
         Am                        F               G
 You gentlemen       will you all         work for me
  
          G                                   C7                 G
 When the old men do all the fighting and the young men all look on
         G                                        C              G
 And the young girls eat their motherʼs meat from tubes of plasticon
     G                                 C                     G
 Be wary of these my gentle friends of all the skin you breed
    C7              G
 To have that tasty habit,
      Am            F             G
 itʼs not       the hands    that bleed