Fan Transcriptions

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Guitar Tablature for The Boy With The Gun

The Boy With The Gun - David Sylvian   

Chords

Em       -022000
Dsus2    -xx0230 
Cmaj7    -x35500
Bm7      -x20202
B7       -x21202
Cadd9    -x32030        
Am       -x02210
Am6      -x02212   
Am7      -x02213
D7       -xx0212
Emadd9   -x22002        
C        -x32010

@ The Boy With The Gun
    

Em   Dsus2  Cmaj7  Bm7 B7
Em   Dsus2  Cmaj7  Bm7 B7

Em                   Dsus2
   He knows well his      wicked ways
  Cmaj7                  Cadd9
A     course of bitter-ness
Em                       Dsus2
   A grudge held from his     childhood days
      Cmaj7                     Cadd9
As if      life had loved him less

Am                 Am6
   Reading down his   list of names
   Am7                   D7
He    ticks them one by one
Fm                      Gm
   He points the barrel at the sky
Ab                  Bb
   Firing shots off at the sun

Em       Dsus2

Cmaj7               Bm7       B7
 I am the law ,and I am the King

Em        Dsus2

Cmaj7                Bm7   B7     Em
 I am the wisdom, listen to me sing"



He carves out the victim's names
In the wooden butt of the gun
He leans well back against the tree
He knows his Kingdom's come
He'll breath a sigh self satisfied
The work is in good hands
He shoots the coins into the air
And follows where the money lands


"I am the law, and I am the King
I am the wisdom, listen to me sing"


He pauses at the city's edge
Of hellfire and of stone
He summons up the devil there
To give him courage of his own
He'll free the sinners of deceit
They'll hear his name and run
His justice is his own reward
Measured out beneath the sun

Em       Dsus2

Cmaj7               Bm7       B7          Em  Dsus2 
 I am the law ,and I am the King
             ( and my name's     on the gun )

Cmaj7                Bm7       B7        Em   Dsus2
 I am the wisdom, listen     to  me   sing"
             ( and my  name's   on the gun )

Cmaj7               Bm7       B7         Em    Dsus2
"I am the law, and I am the King        

Cmaj7                Bm7   B7     Em   Dsus2  Cmaj7  Bm7  B7
 I am the wisdom, listen to me sing"

Em  Dsus2  Cmaj7  Bm7  B7 

Em  Dsus2  Cmaj7  Bm7      B7      Em         Dsus2                  Cmaj7  Bm7
                   The work has just begun ,      The boy with the gun

B7       Em  Dsus2          Cmaj7   Bm7 B7   Em
Oo-oo-oo-oo        Oo-oo-oo-oo


Em   Emadd9 Em   C        Em   Emadd9  Em   C     Emadd9