Squeeze s songs are so catchy and immediate
yet they often feature unusual structures.
This is a case in point.
Wonderful - from the magnificent Sweets From A Stranger album
Standard tuning
Intro
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I ve re-turned
I ve re-turned
I ve re-turned
Verse 1
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Last night I played the drunken fiddle
Dis-abled love with a word of dribble
On and on about some jumbled subject
I said your friends were a bunch of Muppets
I said your sister should have grown a moustache
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Sa-aid you didn t need to take off your mask
Down the staircase I made my stagger
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I left you crying but it didn t matter
Verse 2
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So I sat inside my car in wonder
A headache in my head like the thunder
I chewed my nails like a guilty victim
I couldn t see or feel the night or nothing
I wanted to explain but all so desperate
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Lo-ove was like it was some in-vestment
Then I don t remember who said what when
/
On a scrap of paper I placed my penÂ
Refrain
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staccato Abm x 6, Gb
When I woke up in the morning
Beside you in the bed
My mouth was full of nothing
My arm around your head
/ /
And I don t know how I got there
I didn t want to check
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Now back between each other
We re salvaging our wreck
Now I ve returned
Verse 3
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You ve thrown my jigsaw all over the floor
We re at the deepest deep
I thought our love had died forever
But it just went to sleep
Out
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I ve re-turned
I ve re-turned
I ve re-turned
I ve re-turned
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I hope I ve done it justice!
Kevin O Brien
Watford
England
October 2012
[email protected]
