London Lady
The Stranglers - London Lady
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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
LONDON LADY
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Transcription by: Richard Stanforth (rtstanforth@hotmail.com)
Date of Transcription: 1st April 2002
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intro: C D G F
*bass and drums enter* C D G
(intro riff)
CDG
E-------------------------------------------------------------|
B-------------------------------------------------------------|
G-------------------------------------------------------------|
D----------------------------------5--5h7p5-5h7p5-5h7p5-5h7p5-|
A-------3-5-3-------5-7-5------5-7----------------------------|
E---3-5---------5-7--------5-7--------------------------------|
CDGF
E-------------------------------------------------------------|
B-------------------------------------------------------------|
G-------------------------------------------------------------|
D----------------------------------5--5h7p5-5h7p5-3h5p3-3h5p3-|
A-------3-5-3-------5-7-5------5-7----------------------------|
E---3-5---------5-7--------5-7--------------------------------|
CDGF
E-------------------------------------------------------------|
B----------------------------------------------1----1---------|
G----------------------------------------------3p2--2---------|
D----------------------------------5--5h7p5----3----3---------|
A-------3-5-3-------5-7-5------5-7----------------------------|
E---3-5---------5-7--------5-7--------------------------------|
C D
Little lady with Dingwalls bullshit
G F
Ah, you're so stupid, Foetid brainwaves
C D
Little lady, what really happens
G F
When you see mirrors, you get the shivers
G (N.C.) G F G (N.C.) G (N.C.)
Ahhhh... (keyboards) (bass) (drums)
C D
Making love to the Mersey tunnel
G F
With a sausage, have you ever been to Liverpool?
C D
Please don't talk much, it burns my ears
G F
Tonight you've talked for a thousand years
G
Plastics real when you're real sick
F
Plastics real when you're real sick
E5
Plastics real when you're real sick
Eb
Plastics real when you're real sick
(play the above twice)
GBF
G Bb F
Tell me what you've got to look so pleased about
GBF
G Bb F
Tell me what you've got to look so pleased about
GFEFGFEF
Oh!
C D
London lady, why did you lay me?
G F
Your head is crowded with the names you've hounded
C D
The lines around your eyes they show me
G F G BF
You realise the party's over London Lady, party's over London Lady
G Bb F Fb
Tell me what you've got to look so pleased about
G Bb F
Tell me what you've got to look so pleased about
G Bb F (x7)
note: Hugh plays a kind of 'anti solo' here, where he just attacks
his guitar and plays randomly, unfortunately, it's really low in the
mix so more time is needed to decipher it :)
end on F.