{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1824477,"song":"Strange Tourist","artist":"Gareth Liddiard","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11402990-strange-tourist-chords-by-gareth-liddiard/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1824477?type=chord","rating":4.62699,"votes":8,"content":"Chords:\r\n[tab] BmAdd6 F/C Asus4 Asus2b6 Fm# Dsus2 \r\n|-0------x----0-----1-------2---0----|\r\n|-3------1----3-----0-------2---3----|\r\n|-4------2----2-----2-------2---2----|\r\n|-4------3----2-----2-------4---0----|\r\n|-2------3----0-----0-------4--------|\r\n|--------x------------------2--------|[/tab]\r\nIntro\r\n[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] BmAdd6 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\n[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] BmAdd6 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\n[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nVerse\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nIt was all falling down and a long way from cheap [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nSo tell me why did we live where we lived?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nAbove the old fish shop where they served up slop [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd all the alley cats talked in their sleep[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nI spent a year there with B after I quit the Mitsubishi,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nDragged my mattress up some stairs by the sea[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThen watched the old van rust in the gusts of the coast[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nEnding its knightly expeditions for beer[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nB went psychotic in the navy and he wouldn't mend [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nSomething about a sunk junk and speed [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWell he couldn't shake the illness or endure the cure[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nAnd there was no point switching treatments in the Timor Sea[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nI have never known someone who needed to talk so much [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nOr even fool himself disguising a guess[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nWell I just steered his bullshit through its next diversion [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nNever bothering with reality checks[/tab]\r\nChorus\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'm saying Bowerbird, you'd turn a birdbath black[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nWhat the hell could be the matter with you?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhere did you come from and why'd you go collecting[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F/C[/ch]\r\nAnything that turns the colour blue?[/tab]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Asus4[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] Asus2b6 Asus2b6\r\nFm# [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Dsus2[/ch] Asus2b6 Asus2b6 [ch]Asus4[/ch] \r\n[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] BmAdd6 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\n[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nVerse\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe took his refuge in the open where it stings [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nYou think you'd seen him but he's gone in a blink [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nOnce those Stilnox hit their target don't trust nothing,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNo one and don't go believing anything that you think[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe'd say, \"I'm half way through but I don't know what I'm doing [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nI ain't feeling much of nothing at all[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nBut it's my first time too, if that's a valid excuse[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nI'm going to wait here for the engines to stall[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI've seen the tracks of some giant, the smoke of some fire [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFuse like hot sands in a bottleneck [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nDoes all of beauty lie in being dead and gone [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOr is all history made of chickens and their unhatched eggs[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI've seen the spectre of a frigate on a dry rock face[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nA stone axe held together with an old bootlace[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnything betraying the drift of dead headway[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou can shake it but it won't let go[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAll that so men can live like girls to keep their might pert [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nDigging music made by millionaires for car adverts[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nSave the whales, invade Iraq and have a hamburger [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nI can't distinguish between the nightmare and the joke[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nI was in Tokyo once without any cash[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nAnd Koda Kumi sang a coda pink as sarin gas[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nI took a trip to Nagasaki in a rented Mitsubishi [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen went camping in the Jukai under Mount Fuji\"[/tab]\r\nChorus\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'm saying Bowerbird, you'd turn a birdbath black[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nWhat the hell could be the matter with you?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhere did you come from and why'd you go collecting[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F/C[/ch]\r\nAnything that turns the colour blue?[/tab]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Asus4[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] Asus2b6 Asus2b6\r\nFm# [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Dsus2[/ch] Asus2b6 Asus2b6 [ch]Asus4[/ch] \r\n[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] BmAdd6 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nVerse\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nBut when his pension got suspended, well that spelled the end[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nAnd I joined his life of leisure in flight[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nIt's too hard to row a boat using a periscope[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nSometimes you gotta do wrong to do right[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nHe got in trouble years back, I haven't seen him since[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nIn a men's room in a night club in Madrid[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nHe sold some dexedrine or something to a plain clothes D[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen raised a stink so bad they ended up deporting him[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThen last I heard he was as free as a bird [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd into Scientology[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nOr into Heaven's Gate or Sharon Tate or in the Legionnaires[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nOr gone to Georgia with the Mujahideen[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nAnd someone else was walking eggshells in his birdcage[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nSomeone else shared his unending lease on hamstrung rage[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nHe was someone else's problem, and that made me glad[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey can indulge him 'till he's ironclad[/tab]\r\nChorus\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'm saying Bowerbird, you'd turn a birdbath black[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nWhat the hell could be the matter with you?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhere did you come from and why'd you go collecting[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F/C[/ch]\r\nAnything that turns the colour blue?[/tab]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Asus4[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] Asus2b6 Asus2b6\r\nFm# [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Dsus2[/ch] Asus2b6 Asus2b6 [ch]Asus4[/ch] \r\n[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] BmAdd6 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nVerse\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nWell I wound up working in a hospital[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nRenting TV's to the bored and the blind[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nSeems the DSS got sick of my BS[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd had my unemployment privatised[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThey made a date with me, some agency[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nAnd I went down there like a fool in love[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThey made a few phone calls, found a real cure-all[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike I wasn't miserable enough[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nI was working night shift when he got there[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThe first time I'd seen a coma on the ward[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThe sister said he won't be needing TV now[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nProbably won't be needing nothing at all[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nHe was in Tokyo for a while until he stabilised[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThey flew him back here and the story unfolded[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThey found him frozen in a hollow in Aokigahara forest[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere those harakiri weirdoes go[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nHe died a little later, and was wheeled away[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'd blame his morbid fascination for it all[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nAnd his doubtless, groundless faith in his outdoorsmanship[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe didn't kill himself, he didn't have the balls[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nYeah but hope dies last in a hospital[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nBut has a habit of doing it next to you[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nWhile you shit kick around with your eyes to the ground[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nLike a bowerbird appropriating anything[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThe colour blue [/tab]\r\n[ch]Asus4[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] \r","plain_text":"Chords:\n\nIntro\nEm Am BmAdd6 Am\n\nEm Am G G\nEm Am BmAdd6 Am\n\nEm Am G G G \nVerse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus\n\n\n\n\nAm Asus4 G Asus2b6 Asus2b6\nFm# Em Am Dsus2 Asus2b6 Asus2b6 Asus4 \nEm Am BmAdd6 Am\n\nEm Am G G\nVerse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus\n\n\n\n\nAm Asus4 G Asus2b6 Asus2b6\nFm# Em Am Dsus2 Asus2b6 Asus2b6 Asus4 \nEm Am BmAdd6 Am\nEm Am G G\nVerse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus\n\n\n\n\nAm Asus4 G Asus2b6 Asus2b6\nFm# Em Am Dsus2 Asus2b6 Asus2b6 Asus4 \nEm Am BmAdd6 Am\nEm Am G G\nVerse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAsus4 G","chords":["F/C","Asus4","Fm","Dsus2","Em","Am","G","B","A","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Asus4":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,3,0]},"Dsus2":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,2,0],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}