The Smiths

Accords et partitions

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

Am Am/G F G C

Intro: Take me out tonight Where there's music and there's people

This Charming Man

F#m7 Dmaj9 Bm7 D A B9

Punctured bicycle On a hill side desolate, Will nature make a man of me yet When this charming car This charming man

I Know It's Over

G F C Am7 Em B

Oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head And as I climb into an empty bed Oh well, enough said I know it's over still I cling I don't know where else I can go, mother

How Soon Is Now

F# A D C#m E B

I am the son and the heir Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar I am the son and heir Of nothing in particular

Bigmouth Strikes Again

Am F G C Dm

Pas de barré*

And now I know how Joan of Arc felt Now I know how Joan of Arc felt As the flames rose to her roman nose And her Walkman started to melt

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

A B E C#m F#m Bm

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour But heaven knows I'm miserable now I was looking for a job, and then I found a job And heaven knows I'm miserable now

Asleep

Fm7 G G7 G6 C Am

Sing me to sleep Sing me to sleep I'm tired and I

The Queen Is Dead

B D E G A G#m

INTRO: Farewell to this land's cheerless marches Hemmed in like a boar between arches Her very Lowness with her head in a sling I'm truly sorry but it sounds like a wonderful thing

Cemetery Gates

D C G Em Bm Gmaj7

A dreaded sunny day So I meet you at the cemetery gates Keats and Yeats are on your side A dreaded sunny day So I meet you at the cemetery gates

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

A D G Gmaj7 Dmaj7 F#m

Good times for a change See the look I've had could make a good man turn bad So please please please let me let me let me let me Get what I want this time

This Night Has Opened My Eyes

G Bm A Dmaj7 F#m7 Em

The dream has gone But the baby is real Oh, you did a good thing She could have been a poet Or, she could have been a fool Oh, you did A bad thing And I'm not happy And I'm not sad

Panic

Em G D C Bb F

Panic on the streets of London Panic on the streets of Birmingham I wonder to myself Could life ever be sane again On the Leeds side streets that you slip down

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

A C#m B F#m G#m E

Some girls are bigger than others Some girls are bigger than others Some girl's mothers are bigger than Other girl's mothers

Frankly Mr Shankly

G Am F C Eb

Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I've held It pays my way, and it corrodes my soul I want to leave, you will not miss me I want to go down in musical history

Reel Around The Fountain

E A D F#m Gmaj7 Bm7

It's time the tale were told Of how you took a child And you made him old It's time the tale were told Of how you took a child

Ask

G C D Am Em

Pas de barré

Shyness is nice and Shyness can stop you From doing all the things in life You'd like to

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side

D C Am7 G Am Cmaj7

The boy with the thorn in his side Behind the hatered there lies A murderous desire For love

Still ill

G Am F Em

I degree today that life is simply taking and not giving England is mine and it owes me a living But ask me why and i'll spit in your eye Oh ask me why and i'll spit in your eye But we cannot cling to the old dreams anymore

What Difference Does It Make

D E A F#m C G

Song: What Difference Does It Make? Artist: The Smiths Album: The Smiths/Singles Transcribed by Vivek Ayer Date: 22-June-2007

Hand In Glove

G Em7 Cmaj7 C

[Verse 1] Em7 A7sus2 C Hand in glove The sun shines out of our behinds Em7 A7sus2

Pretty Girls Make Graves

A D Bm F#m C#m Ab

Upon the sand, upon the bay "There is a quick and easy way" you say Before you illustrate I'd rather state: "I'm not the man you think I am

The Headmaster Ritual

E G# Amaj7 B A G6

E Standard B Standard G tune up to G# D tune up to 6E A tune up to 7B

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Em C Cm Bm7 B7 Am

Last night I dreamt ... that somebody loved me No hope, no harm ... just another false alarm Last night I felt real arms around me No hope, no harm ... just another false alarm

That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore

E A G B F# D

Park the car at the side of the road You should know Time's tide will smother you And I will too When you laugh about people who feel so

I Want The One I Can't Have

C D Bm Em Am G

Verse (RAPIDO) On the day that your mentality (RAPIDO) Decides to tryyy a ha ha yyy to catch up with your biology

Half A Person

E Bm A G Gb Esus4

RIFF 1 RIFF1 RIFF1 Call me morbid, call me pale. I've spent six years on your trail

Meat Is Murder

F Am D E A G

[Verse] Heifer whines ... could be human cries Closer, comes the screaming knife This beautiful creature must die ... this beautiful creature must die A death for no reason, and death for no reason is murder

William It Was Really Nothing

G A Bm D Dmaj7 F#

The rain falls hard on a humdrum town This town has dragged you down Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town This town has dragged you down Oh, no, and everybody?s got to live their life

A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours

Dm Bb C Eb A Dm7

He------------llo, I am the ghost of troubled Joe Hung by his pretty neck some eighteen months ago I travelled to a mystical time zone And I missed my bed and I soon came home

Never Had No One Ever

Am F G Dm7 Em7 E

When you walk without ease on these Streets were you were raised, I had A really bad dream. It lasted

Youve Got Everything Now

A F#m E B C#m D

[Bridge] But you've got everything now You've got everything now And what a terrible mess I've made of my life Oh, what a mess I've made of my life

Suffer Little Children

Dmaj7 Amaj7 Bm7 E C#m7 G#m7

[Verse] Over the moors, take me to the moors Dig a shallow grave and I'll lay me down Lesley-Anne with your pretty white beads Oh John, you'll never be a man

Well I wonder

A Gmaj7(9+) G Bm7 Em D

Intro: Well I wonder...do you hear me when you sleep? I...hoarsely cry

Handsome Devil

G A Bm F#m D

All the streets are crammed with things Eager to be held I know what hands are for And I'd like to help myself You ask me the ti-ime

Girlfriend in a Coma

D C G Em

Pas de barré

Girlfriend in a coma, I know, I know, it's serious My, my, my, my, my, my, my baby goodbye There were times when I could have strangled her But you know I would hate anything to happen to her Would you please let me see her ?

Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

C Gm D# F G G#

Stop me, oh, stop me Stop me if you think that you've Heard this one before Stop me, oh, stop me Stop me if you think that you've

Barbarism Begins At Home

Em A G C D Em6

Emadd9 Em* * Dsus4 * Dsus4 * Dsus4 * Dsus4

Nowhere Fast

G F#m Em F#4 A Bm

I'd like to drop my trousers to the world I am a man of means, of slender means Each household appliance Is like a new science in my town And if the day came when I felt a natural emotion

Vicar In A Tutu

E C#m A B

I was minding my business lifting some lead off The roof of the Holy Name Church It was worthwhile living a laughable life Just to set my eyes on a blistering sight Of a vicar in a tutu

I Dont Owe You Anything

C7 G F7 Bb7 Am7 B7

[Chorus] Did I really walk all this way Just to hear you say: "Oh, I don't want to go out tonight" "Oh, I don't want to go out tonight"

Rusholme Ruffians

D Bm A G# G

[Verse 1] The last night of the fair By the big wheel generator A boy is stabbed and his money is grabbed and the air hangs heavy like a Dulling wine

Unloveable

G A D C F#m Em

Intro: , , , (twice) I know I'm unloveable,

Rubber Ring

Am F Em G A11 Am7

[Verse 1] A sad fact widely known The most impassionate song to a lonely soul Is so easily outgrown But don't forget the songs that made you smile

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

F# B C# G C D

Please don?t cry - - música fica do começo ao fim assim For the ghost and the storm outside Will not invade this sacred shrine Nor infiltrate your mind

Miserable Lie

G Am C F F#

I know i need hardly say How much i love your casual way Oh but please put your tounge away A little higher and were well away

I won't share you

C D G Am Bm Em

I won't share you I won't share you With the drive The ambition And the zeal I feel

Girl Afraid

Em A D B C#m C#m7

Girl Afraid where does his intentions lay? Or does he even have any? She said 'he never really looks at me I give him every opportunity In the room downstairs he sat and stared

I Started Something I Couldnt Finish

E F D Gb C#m C#

I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish The Smiths, Strangeways Here We Come, 1987 (Intro)

Shoplifters Of The World Unite

C G D E Am A

Pas de barré

Learn to love me assemble the ways Now today tomorrow and always My only weakness is a listed crime My only weakness is well nevermind Nevermind CHORUS: Shoplifters of the world Unite and take over

These Things Take Time

D Em C G A B

Em D Asus My eyes have seen the glory of the sacred wunderkind D Asus B You took me behind a disused railway line D Asus

What She Said

D A C E Bm G

What she read, all heady books, she'd sit and prophesise, It took a tattooed boy from Birkenhead, to really really open her eyes What she read, all heady books, she'd sit and prophesise, It took a tattooed boy from Birkenhead, to really really open her eyes

Paint A Vulgar Picture

F E D G A Am

[Verse 1] At the record company meeting, On their hands: a dead star. And ooh, the plans that they weave, And ooh, the sickening greed.

Death of a Disco Dancer

B A G#m G E

The death of a disco dancer Well, it happens a lot round here And if you think peace is a common goal Well, that goes to show Just how little you know

Unhappy Birthday

D F G Bb C Cmaj7

I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday Because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad but I won't cry

Back to the Old House

C F Am7 D9 G F9

I would rather not go Back to the old house I would rather not go Back to the old house

Sweet And Tender Hooligan

Bb C Dm Gm Am

4/4 Key of F Major. He was a sweet and tender hooligan And he swore that he's never never do it again and of couse he won't Not until the next time....

Stretch Out And Wait

C G6 G Fmaj9 Am Em

On the high-rise estate What's at the back of your mind? Oh, the three day debates on a high-rise estate What's at the back of your mind?

Sheila Take a Bow

D E C F#m A B

Is it wrong to want to live on your own? No, it's not wrong - but I must know How can someone so young

Shakespeare Sister

D G C E A Am

Young bones groan And the rocks below say : "Throw your skinny body down, son !" But I'm going to meet the one I love

Accept Yourself

B A E D Bsus2 G#m

Every day you must say So, how do I feel about my life? Anything is hard to find When you will not open your eyes When will you accept yourself?

Is It Really So Strange ?

E B A G#m C#m F#m

I left the North I traveled South I found a tiny house I can~t help the way I feel Oh yes you can kick me

You Just Havent Earned It Yet Baby

B A E C#m C D

[Verse] If you're wondering why All the love that you long for eludes you And people are rude and cruel to you I'll tell you why

Oscillate Wildly

G F Fmaj7 Am C Em7

[Instrumental] (Play 4 times) | | | dim7 | | dim7 |

London

F# E5 B5 D5 F#m C#m

Riff Smoke lingers ~round your fingers Train, heave on-to Euston Riff Do you think you~ve made the right decision this time?

Wonderful Woman

Am G F Dm Em C

Here her head, she lay Until she'd rise and say : "I'm starved of mirth; Let's go and trip a dwarf"

Death At Ones Elbow

A5 A D E F G

Oh, Glenn, don't come to the house tonight Oh, Glenn, oh, Glenn Don't come to the house tonight Oh, Glenn Because there's somebody here who really, really loves you

Golden Lights

G C F

Pas de barré*

Chorus: Golden lights displaying your name Golden lights it's a terrible shame But oh my darling WHY DID YOU CHANGE ?

Money Changes Everything

Am F G Em Dm

Song: Money Changes Everything Band: The Smiths Single: Bigmouth Strikes Again Year: 1986 Tabber: [email protected]

Jeane

D A G

Pas de barré

Jeane The low-life has lost its appeal And I'm tired of walking these streets To a room with a cupboard bare

I Keep Mine Hidden

F C Am Dm Bb E

[Verse] Hate, Love and War Force emotions to the fore But not for me of course, of course I keep mine hidden

Work Is A Four Letter Word

E D F#m A G Bm7

Capo on 2nd fret [Chords] [Intro]

What Do You See In Him

Am Em Dm C G F

Verse 1 Oh, the nights are too long When the questions are long I tried, But I will never understand

Whats The World

E G#m A E6

Esus4 What would you sell? Loose glasses and suit Heart and soul Won't wear out

The Draize Train

Em Em9 A9

[CHORDS] Cadd9 X32030 Cmaj7 X32000 Asus4 X02200 Dsus4 XX0233