{"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":2452665,"song":"The Cheques In The Post","artist":"Momus","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11501857-the-cheques-in-the-post-chords-by-momus/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2452665?type=chord","rating":0.18612,"votes":0,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1}\r\n[tab][ch]Am7[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nMe and my lawyer sat down and worked out[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]A#[/ch]            [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nThe full cost of the wrongs I have done you[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I'm sending the money to you[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe cheque's in the post[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am7[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor giving you hell[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am7[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen I should have been treating you well[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm7[/ch]    [ch]Em7[/ch]                                [ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nReparation: five hundred five pound notes in a roll[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge 1]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C/G[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor remarks about your weight[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C/G[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor complaining when you were late[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm7[/ch]    [ch]Em7[/ch]                            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nCompensation: two thousand pounds, the going rate[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C/G[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor the times we were out[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C/G[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd my eye kept roving about[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]Dm7[/ch]            [ch]Em7[/ch]\r\nSettling on younger women: Fifteen hundred, say it's[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nForgiven[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 1]\r\n[tab][ch]C/G[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nRunning total: six thousand three hundred and fifty[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G#[/ch]\r\nPounds[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWith tax added on[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nAnd that's just the end of verse one[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am7[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor attacking your superstition[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am7[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYour pantheistic new age religion[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Dm7[/ch]                       [ch]Em7[/ch]\r\nLet's say the sum of one thousand seven hundred and[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am7[/ch]\r\nNinety seven[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge 2]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C/G[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen I said your new dress wasn't splendid[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C/G[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen I told you the way the film ended[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Dm7[/ch]                 [ch]Em7[/ch]\r\nI guess I was wrong, accept this token: seven thousand[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nPounds[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C/G[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd for passing the pictures I'd taken[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C/G[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOf your body totally naked[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Dm7[/ch]                      [ch]Em7[/ch]\r\nAround all our friends, let's call it a round nine[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nThousand pounds[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 2]\r\n[tab][ch]C/G[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nRunning total: twenty four thousand one hundred and[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G#[/ch]\r\nForty seven pounds[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOn it's way to you[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd this is just the end of verse two[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]Am7[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nMe and my lawyer sat down and worked out[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]A#[/ch]            [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nThe real cost of the wrongs I have done you[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I'm sending the money to you[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nThe cheque's in the post[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am7[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd for my next indiscretion[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Am7[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen we had sex on the floor of the kitchen[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Dm7[/ch]              [ch]Em7[/ch]\r\nI sang it in a song: accept ten thousand - make that[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nEleven thousand - pounds[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge 3]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C/G[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd for failing to give enough time[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C/G[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo the baby that could have been mine[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]Dm[/ch]             [ch]Em7[/ch]\r\nIt's not that I don't care, my love, it's just so hard[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nTo find a figure[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 3]\r\n[tab][ch]C/G[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWorst of all I stopped loving your body[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]G#[/ch]\r\nMaking you feel so low[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThough my lawyer says no blame can be apportioned[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]G#[/ch]\r\nFor circumstances beyond my control[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo now I'm all paid up[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd absolved from this guilt[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI'm going to get another girl in[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G#[/ch]\r\nUnder my quilt[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd run up[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A#[/ch]              [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnother massive debt[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHail Mary[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nPray for me now[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nNow and at the hour of my death.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\n(Ba-ba-da ba-ba-da ba-ba-da)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\n(Ba-ba-da ba-ba-da ba-ba-da)[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nC\n\n[Verse 1}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]","chords":["C","Am7","F","A#","A7","G","E","Dm7","Em7","C/G","Am","G#","E7","Dm","Em"],"chord_diagrams":{"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Am7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,0,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"C/G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,4,2,0,1,0],"frets":[3,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"Dm7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,1]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"Em7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,0,3,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,3,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}