3rd October 2000, 9.43pm
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SATURDAY’S KIDS
(Weller)
From the LP ‘Setting Sons’
Chords used:
G: 355433 A: 577655
C: x3555x F: 133211
D: x5777x Gsus4: xx5533
E: 022100
C#m: x46654
N.C. (Riff 1 x4)
G C D (x2)
la,la,la,la…
G C D
Saturday’s boys live life with insults,
G C D
Drink lots of beer and wait for half-time results.
E C#m
Afternoon tea in the lite-a-bite,
A D
Chat up the girls, they dig it!
G C D
Saturday’s girls work in Tesco’s and Woolworths,
G C D
Wear chep perfume cos it’s all they can afford.
E C#m
Got to discos they drink Babycham,
A D
Talk to Jan – in bingo accents.
G C D (x2)
La la la…
G C D
Saturday’s kids play on one arm bandits,
G C D
They never win, but that’s not the point is it?
E C#m
Get themselves a paper when their pints go flat,
A D
How about that? – Far out, man!
G C D
Their mums and dads smoke Capstan non-filters,
G C D
Wallpaper lives cos they all die of cancer,
E C#m
What goes on? – what goes wrong?
A D
Save up their money for a holiday,
A D
To Selsey Bill or Bracklesham Bay,
A D
Think about the future – when they’ll settle down
A D
Marry the girl next door – with one on the way.
C
These are the real creatures that time has forgot,
D
Not given a thought.
E F G
It’s the system – hate the system – what’s the syste – m?
G C D (x4)
Oh.
G Gsus4 (x4)
G Gsus4 G Gsus4
Saturday’s kids live in council houses, wear V-neck shirts and baggy trousers,
G C D G C D
Saturday’s kids live in council houses, wear V-neck shirts and baggy trousers.
G C D (x2)
E C#m
Drive Cortina’s fur trimmed dashboard,
A D
Stains on the seats – in the back of course!
G C D (x8)
la, la, la
G
