LOOKING AFTER NO. 1 - The Boomtown Rats
After looking on tab on here, some of them didn t have the guitar chord change
half way through. This is copied from the 1977 sheet music.
Intro: drums for 2 and half bars then
The world owes me a living
I waited on this dole queue too long
I ve been standin in the rain for fifteen minutes -
that s a quarter of an hour too long
oh oh ho, oh oh ho
I ll take all they can give me
And then I m gonna ask for more
Cos the money s buried deep in the bank of England
and I want the key to the vault
Chorus: N..
I m gonna take your money! Count your loss when I m gone.
N.. (N..)
I m alright Jack! Lookin after number one
If I want something I get it
Don t matter what I have to do
I ll step on your face, on your mother s grave
never underestimate me I m nobody s fool
oh oh ho, oh oh ho
I don t owe no-one nothing
If it s me, they must come to
Stop, look, think, baby
I always get what I want and I want to get you
(Repeat chorus)
Don t wanna be like you, I don t wanna live like you
(strum)
Don t wanna talk like you, you, you, at all
One Hit Chords: / / / / / / (DRUM ROLL BEHIND STRUMMS)
Number one
Solo Chords: / / / / / / / /
Don t give me love thy neighbour
Don t give me charity
Don t give me peace and love or the good lord above,
you only get in my way with your stupid ideas
oh oh ho, oh oh ho
I am an island
Entire of myself
And when I get old, older than today
I ll never need anybody s help in any way.
(Repeat chorus)
Don t wanna be like you, I don t wanna live like you
(strum)
Don t wanna talk like you, you, at all
I m gonna be like, I m gonna be like, I m gonna be like - Me!
