Better in Hoboken
Franz Ferdinand
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Tom: Cm
Riff incial
D|----------------------------3---5---6---5---3-----------------
A - 3---6---3---3---6-------------------------------6---5---3-
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Cm | Gm Bb | Cm | Gm Bb |
It's always better on Holiday So much better on holiday
Cm | Gm Bb | Cm | Gm Bb |
That's why we only work when we need the money
Cm
Jacqueline was seventeen, working on a desk
Ab Bb
When Ivor peered above her spectacle Forgot that he had wrecked a girl
Cm Ab Bb
Sometime these eyes Forget the face they're peering from
Gm
When the face they peer upon Well you know that face as I do
Cm Gm
And how in the return of the gaze She can return you the face that you are staring from
Bb
riff
Cm | Gm Bb | Cm | Gm Bb |
It's always better on Holiday So much better on holiday
Cm | Gm Bb | Cm | Gm Bb |
That's why we only work when we need the money
Cm
Gregor was down again Said, 'Come on, kick me again'
Ab Bb
Said, 'I'm so drunk I don't mind if you kill me'
Cm Ab Bb
Come on you gutless Yeah, I'm alive I'm alive
Gm Cm Gm Bb
I'm alive and how I know it But for chips, and for freedom I could die
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