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Kid Charlemagne

Steely Dan

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                     Kid Charlemagne - Steely Dan
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                                From the Album 'Royal Scam'

                                    tabbed by Howard Wright
                               Email : spxhaw@uk.ac.cf.thor

INTRO:
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 C7#9


VERSE 1:
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Am                          G6
 While the music played you worked by candle light

      F6/9                                Bb13
Those San Fransisco nights, they were the best in town

Am                            G6
 Just by chance you crossed a diamond with a pearl

    F6/9                                    Bb13
You turned it on the world, that's when you turned the world around

F6          G        Am      G6            Dm7    Em7 Dm7
  Did you feel like Jesus      Did you realise

                 Em7               Fmaj7   Em7  Dm7
That you were a champion in their eyes ?

C7#9


VERSE 2:
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On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene
But yours was kitchen clean
Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolour motorhome
Every A-frame had your number on the wall
You must have had it all
You'd go to LA on a dare and you'd go it alone
Could you live forever
Could you see the day
Did you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away

CHORUS :
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Dm7      Em7       Dm7      Em7
Get along            Get along Kid Charlemagne

Dm7     Em7                F7    G7     C7
 Get along Kid Charlemagne


VERSE 3:
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Now your patrons have all left you in the red
Your low rent friends are dead
This life can be very strange
All those day-glo freaks who used to paint their face
They've joined the human race, some things will never change
Son you were mistaken
You are obsolete, look at all the white men on the street


CHORUS
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INSTRUMENTAL
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 E7#9 A7   Dm7    F/C    B7   E7   Am    G6

Fmaj7   Em7    Dm7 B7 Em7     D6     Cmaj7     Em7  D6/E

Am     G6     F6/9     Bb13     F   G   Am  G6

Dm7    Em7 Dm7     Em7     Fmaj7 Em7 Dm7

C7#9


VERSE 4:
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Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail
Those test tubes and the scales, just get it all out of here
Is there gas in the car ?
Yes there's gas in the car
I think the people down the hall know who you are
Careful what you carry
Cause the man is wise
You are still an outlaw in their eyes


CHORUS
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OUTTRO:
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Fmaj7     Em7     Dm7     Cmaj7    Em7 Fmaj7    Em7    Dm7

Cmaj7     Em7 Fmaj7    Em7     Dm7     Cmaj7    Em7

...etc  - keep repeating


Shapes:

a=10, b=11


  EADGBE      EADGBE     EADGBE      EADGBE      EADGBE
  x3234x      x07555     3x5453      x87788      6x6788

   C7#9         Am         G6         F6/9        Bb13


  EADGBE      EADGBE     EADGBE      EADGBE      EADGBE
  1x3231      3x5433     x57565      x79787      x8a9a8

    F6          G         Dm7         Em7         Fmaj7

  EADGBE      EADGBE     EADGBE      EADGBE      EADGBE
  x8786x      xa9a8x     xxa9b8      07678x      5x56xx

    F7         G7          C7         E7#9        A7


  EADGBE      EADGBE     EADGBE      EADGBE      EADGBE
  8xaaax      8a8988     x79797      x57777      x35453

    F/C        B7          E7          D6         Cmaj7


  EADGBE      EADGBE
  x77777      133211

   D6/E         F


Any questions,queries or suggestions - please let me know !

Howard