Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 18:17:30 +0100
From: Fred Felix
Subject: b/belle_and_sebastian/beautiful.crd
BEAUTIFUL
By Belle & Sebastian
>From the EP '3... 6... 9... Seconds of Light'
Transcribed by M. R. Waggner
Submitted by Thelonius
Intro
A C#m7 A C#m7 A G#m F#m E
A C#m7
She lay in bed all night watching the colors change
A C#m7
She lay in bed all night watching the morning change
A G#m
F#m E
She lay in bed all night watching the morning change into green and gold
A C#m7
The doctor told her years ago that she was ill
A C#m7
The doctor told her years ago to take a pill
A G#m F#
The doctor told her years ago that she'd go blind if she wasn't careful
C#m7 B
They let Lisa go blind
A G#
The world was at her feet and she was looking down
C#m7 B
They let Lisa go blind
A C#m7
But everyone she knew thought she was beautiful
E
Only slightly mental
C#m7
Beautiful
E
Only tempermental
Cm7
Beautiful
A C#m7
She thought it would be fun to try photograghy
A C#m7
She thought it would be fun to try pornography
A G#m
She thought it would be fun to try most anything
F#
She was tired of sleeping
C#m7 B A G#
They let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind
C#m7 B
They let Lisa go blind
She's looking like a queen
C#m7 A
But if you knew what's going on in her life
F#m B
There'd be a thousand barren mothers there to talk to her
C#m7 A
If you knew what's going on in her life
F#m B
There'd be two hundred troubled teenagers to sit with her
B
And talk to her
E D
If you knew what's going on in her life
A
What's going on in her life
C#
There would be a documentary on Radio 4
(Trumpet solo spot...)
G# E G# E G# E G# B E B C#m7 B C#m7 B C#m7 B
E B C#m7 B C#m7 B C#m7 B C#
A C#m7
She made herself a pair of orthopaedic shoes
A C#m7
She thought is was the answer to the fashion blues
A G#m
She made herself a pair of orthopaedic shoes
F#
But she walked with a limp
C#m7 B A G#
They let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind...
C#m7 B A G# repeats to the end
(for the little tidbit at the very end, just repeat the 1st chorus)
Belle & Sebastian fans would be well advised to browse Paul
Mitchell's appealing site 'Sinister' at
www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~mitchell/sinister/
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