The Best Years Of Our Lives
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Tabs


Note - All these songs are written by Steve Harley who has the Copyright
Tabs sents by Guy Smith


Mad, Mad Moonlight
Mr Raffles
It Wasn't Me
Panorama
Make Me Smile
Back To The Farm
49th Parallel
The Best Years of Our Lives
Key
~ tremelo/trill
b bend
r return
h hammer
p pull off
(ghost note)
/ slide up
\ slide down
. kill note

THE MAD, MAD MOONLIGHT 
Intro 
A   Asus A   Asus A G D A 
A   Asus A   Asus A G F# F 
      D                           G                      D 
It was just like a dream, yeah, a surreal scene, like a blue orange 
I thought my senses had gone, like I was writing a song about a foot-long syringe 
A             G            D 
And she said, "Hello, dear, it's my party 
"So I          hope you'll be smart, hee hee   And I 
said,"I don't know, but I think I'll go fix me 
A(Intro riff") 
a stiff drink" 
        D                               G 
Well, I sat there and stared, because at first I was scared of this female tarzan 
And while she talked with the apes about champagne and grapes, I approached her garden 
      A                 G            D 
And she said,"Now, now, don't try to leave me, 
              "It's unfair to deceive me 
              "I could kill if you try to escape me, 
A (intro riff) 
come upstairs my friend" 
  Emin     Bmin   F               A 
Now I knew, I knew, I couldn't be that mean, 
Emin         Bmin               F             G              A  A sus 
so I tried, yeah I really tried to leave her but she was a big, big, big girl, big girl 

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MR. RAFFLES 
E                                                     G# 
Man, it was mean to be seen in the robes you wore for Lent 
                             E 
you must've known that it was Easter 
                                                    G# 
There for a while, in your smile, I could see Mexico blood say 
                     E 
"This is true I was a teaser" 
B                               B(b5) (see below)
There were a thousand manitas 
being exchanged for pesetas 

 B(b5) - B with 5th flattened    G#7/C
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|--6-----4-6---4--------4-6-| |-------
|------4---------4----4-----| |---5---
|------------------3--------| |---4---
|---------------------------| |---3---
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E            B          G#7/C      C#min 
Man, It was hard not to laugh out loud 
                                   G# 
I couldn't believe the size of the crowd 
                              E 
You must have fooled them into coming 
E                B       G#7/C      C#min 
Wow, There were women and children, too 
                                 G# 
They would have hanged us if they knew I think I know for certain 
A 
Inside you sniggered so hearty, you only came for the party 
E            B           Amin   F    G  F   E 
Man, it was mean, it was mean, Man, it was mean 
A                       E 
You think you're so importantly clever 
A                             E 
I'll tell you now where thats at 
A                      E 
You can be this way forever and ever 
Amin                   B      (B  C  G/D  B/Eb  E) 
sooner or later you'll fall 
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IT WASN'T ME 
B7                         A 
It wasn't me who wrote the epitaph 
I only burned the old girl's photograph 
And threw the kitten in the fire, see 
You ask me your father he'll remember me 
G            E           G              E 
It was so fantastic, he burned like a matchstick 
A                               B 
You know I'm sorry for what I've done 


 G      A            B   D   C   B       E 
Now you say I'm responsible for killing them 

 G   A        B     D  C  B           E  D  E/A  D/G 
I say it was God   He was willing them 

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PANORAMA 
C 
Murder follows me like a leech from sunset, hard on my

                          F 
heels to the midnight beach 

C
Multitudes of every skin, around the glowing sparks
                          F 
they begin to sing 

G                                 Emin 
Everybody is watching the dancer, all the way from Barcelona 

F                 G          F                G 
Teddy Boy's are farming, it's all a little alarming 

C                      D 
I felt forty-five and was barely alive 

F      Emin    D       G 
Whoa oh woh oh 

         C                       D 
I saw a human tribe and was terrified 

F      Emin    D       G 
Whoa oh woh oh 

(solo over Amin  G  F Emin  Emin  G) 
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Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me)
Intro
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|----------------1-3-5-3-----0---|---------------|
|----------0-2-4-2-4-5-4-----0---|---------------|
|----0-2-3-----------------------|5-7-3-5----3---|
|2-3-----------------------------|5-5-5-3----3---|
|--------------------------------|---------------|
                                                    You've done it all..

F                          C                   G 
...                 You've broken every code....
          And pulled the rebel      to the floor...   You spoilt the
Game                     no matter what you say....
               For only metal     what a bore..........
F                          C 
              Blue eyes        Blue eyes 
F                          C                   G
        How come you tell...   So many lies..   
Dm                         F                   C                 G
         Come up and see... me         make me smile..............
         Or do what you want            run on wild...............
F                          C
Ooh...........................la  la la
Ooh...........................la  la la
G                          G
Ooh..........................
Dm                         F                   C                 G
         Come up and see... me         make me smile..............
         Or do what you want            run on wild...............

Chords in solo F Em F Am Em Em G G Dm F C G Dm F C G G
Solo starts like
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|2-0-2-2-0-2-2------02p0------0------------------------------------|
|------------------------------3-2-3-5-3-0---2---------------------|
|------------------------------------------3-----------------------|
|------------------------------------------------5-5-5-5-5---3-3---|

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BACK TO THE FARM
Emin           F                  Emin              G
Only twilight, calm and barkless; no more daylight, only darkness; 

Emin          F                     D           C    B 
Only twilight, only twilight made the change without delay 

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49TH PARALLEL 
E 
Think I'll have lines on my face 

                         Fmin7 
When I get out of this place 

        D                      B 
So I guess I'll be ever so careful 

              E 
It wouldn't help to deny 

      Fmin7            D 
I'm well advised to comply 

                              B 
By the rules or be ever so tearful 

B7 
I caught a vulture, he came up behind me 
I put a chain on his claws 
I caught another, been trying to find me 
I slit a vein in his jaws 
A                                            B 
Tied the two of them up with guitar-strings (only fed them a bone) 
A 
Grinned and put my hands in my pockets 
Amin                           E     B 
To drift away to a land of my own
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THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES 
C   C/B    Amin   G      F      C 
European Maids, hard to ignore 
 You, me and the boys, barred from the shore 
F                       C 
Fresh-faced imbeciles, laughing at me 
I've been laughing myself, is that so hard to see? 
Do I have to spell each letter out, honestly! 
            F                            C 
If there's no room for laughter there's no room for me 
Dmin                G 
For me.... 
F                 Emin             Dmin      C 
You'll think it's tragic when that moment arrives 
Ah, but it's magic, it's the best years of our lives 

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