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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2872811,"song":"Poetry And Jazz","artist":"John Otway","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11648186-poetry-and-jazz-chords-by-john-otway/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2872811?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]               [ch]D[/ch]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nShe said it’s hard for me to explain to you the brightness of the light,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI can still remember when my life was like that[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]A[/ch]                                                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nA real and painless beauty I remember as a kid, when I thought that I knew everything, and in a way I did[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nShe was a virgin then, a child in a million, with deep round hazel eyes of blazing intuition[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nShe called me over to her side and said will you please listen[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI want to show you something, something I’ve just written[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I’m calling it Poetry And Jazz[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]                                                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe watched her happy family turn to a broken home, her father left with someone else, her mother on her own[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]A[/ch]                                                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHer fourteenth birthday her mother spent in tears, she celebrated on her own her adolescent years[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIt was hell then,    caught in the crossfire of an emotional triangle she couldn’t keep together[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI held her softly and she sobbed upon my shoulder[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSaying as you are the closest thing that I’ve got to a brother[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nExplain to me, why is life so sad[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]A[/ch]                                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSixteen was better, cause sixteen was boys, makeup, parties, alcohol and clothes[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]A[/ch]                                                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd saying to your boyfriend, come on get out of bed, its 3 o’clock in the afternoon, my mother’s coming back[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd she smiled then, her eyes filled with laughter, she didn’t know if it was love but it didn’t really matter[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nShe called me on the phone and said get this big brother[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI’ve just got rid of one boyfriend and got myself another[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd listen, this one drives a Jag[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe left school and boyfriends for university, three years of study for an art degree[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]A[/ch]                                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHer clothes were outrageous, her hair was many colours, her work was radical and so were her ideas[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nShe said this is brilliant, this place is heaven – on a score of 1 to 10 I’d give this place 11[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt kicks you up the arse and it fires you with ambition, I often used to feel as if my life was just a prison[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNow I realise it isn’t quite that bad[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]                                                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI was invited to an exhibition a little while ago to an art gallery in Paris where she has a studio[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]A[/ch]                                                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe looked sophisticated, she was wearing a bronze tan, and she’d sold all her work for some outrageous sum[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd I looked at her and I started laughing[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI said you’re supposed to be an artist, you’re supposed to be suffering[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd she just smiled back and she pointed to this picture[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOf a young girl around which she’d written out this poem[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe’d shown me once, Poetry And Jazz[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]                                                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMy name is Angela, I am 12 years old, I’ve given up on working hard and doing as I’m told[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]A[/ch]                                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI see a child psychologist who’s spotted in my head a recipe for delinquency or something just as bad[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd I’ll fight     for my independence, I see the world in another way to my teachers and my parents[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy priorities are different and my life is not as aimless, I am not disruptive, I am not dangerous[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI've rhythm and purpose, like Poetry and Jazz[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab]               [ch]D[/ch]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nShe said it’s hard for me to explain to you the brightness of the light,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI can still remember when my life was like that[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]A[/ch]                                                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nA real and painless beauty I remember as a kid when I thought that I knew everything, and in a way I did[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][Riff]\r\n   [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\ne|-------0---0-2---2-3-2-0----|\r\nB|-3---3-----------------3----|\r\nG|---2-----2-----2-------3----|\r\nD|-----------------------3----|\r\nA|----------------------------|\r\nE|----------------------------|[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]","chords":["D","A","G","B","E"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}