Godley And Creme - Wide Boy chords

Wide Boy - Godley & Creme


[ (C C#) x6    A Ab ] x2

D               Am(7)                         Em
Everybody knows. He comes and goes. But the smell of his last cigarette,
      F#m                      Am          G      C   G     (C G)x3       Am
still lingers in your clothes. So don't be stupid and naive,        he's only
        G             A              D
Playing cupid. And no matter what he says,
          B                E               A            D
He's only skimming off the cream. And he's only stoking boilers, while his
B              E
engine gathers steam
         D          E (E7)E            D              E (E7) E           
He isn't good enough.         He isn't good enough to me. 
   A
     He's only using you. 
         
He's Only passing through.
              E    Eb   E              Eb 
'Cause he's a wide boy, sitting in the back row.
E                Eb          E          Eb
Necking with his girlfriend. Goin' to a go-go.
E    Eb   E            Eb
Wide boy. Really goin' nowhere.                  
E             Eb     E stop
Victim of the sixties. ( Mummified in mohair)

Mohair, mohair, mohair, mohair.

[ (Ab A) x6        FE   ] x2
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D                         Am
Everybody knows. When the sewer overflows.
     Em                                F#m                        Am
He'll be the one that always comes up, smelling like a rose. With one foot
        G        C   G   C    G  C    G     Am               G
in your doorway. And one hand on your heart. He'll never do it your way.
 
         A                      D                       B7
So don't part with the rubber gloves. 'Till the Turtle doves find a place to
E7            A              D                   B7   
stay in. Cos' I saw Expresso Bongo. When I was a kid. So I know what I'm
E(7)
saying.
         D           E            D              E (E7) E     
He isn't good enough.    He isn't good enough to me. 
    A
      He's only using you. He's Only passing through.
              E    Eb   E              Eb
'Cause he's a wide boy, sitting in the back row.
E                Eb          E          Eb
Necking with his girlfriend, goin' to a go-go.
E    Eb   E            Eb       E             Eb      E(stop)
Wide boy, really goin' nowhere. Victim of the sixties. (mummified in Mohair)
                                 
Mohair, mohair, mohair, mohair. 
     E
Wide boy.
     A                   E                B       A
What is your secret? Wide boy. You better fill me in.
E                A              E                 B    A    E
Why are all your suits italian. Is it the way I'm standing. You gotta keep
     B    A 
Your hand in.

[ (Ab A) x6        FE   ] x2

D                Am                    Em
Everybody knows. Everyone agrees. That you should not go crawling after 
    F#m                      Am            G      C    G    (C G)x3
him. On your hands and knees. You're being stupid and naive 
    Am             G              Em+9 Em   Em+9 Em   Em+9 Em  Em+9 Em
And you may just be fallin' for a wide boy, wide boy, wide boy.
E    Eb   E              Eb        E                Eb          E          Eb
Wide boy. Sitting in the back row. Necking with his girlfriend. Goin' to a go-go
E    Eb
Wide boy. 
E            Eb      E (stop)
Really goin' nowhere. Victim of the sixties. (Sixties, sixties, sixties...)


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