Pulp-Common People - BPM - 144
[BPM 137 - Phaser? - Intro - Guitar rhythm - x&2&x&4& - bass drum on 1 and 3 later][C octave]
[Verse - Just bass drum on 1 and 3 - Csus4 follows melody]
[C] She came from Greece she had a
[Csus4]thirst [C]for [Csus4]know [C]ledge
She studies sculpture at St.
[Csus4]Mar [C]tins [Csus4]Col [C]lege ... That's where
[G7add7-353463, G7-353433] I ...
[Pattern - G7add7 .... G7-G7add7 G7-G7add7]
..............caught her eye
[C] ......... She told me that her
[Csus4]dad [C]was [Csus4]loa [C]ded
I said "In that case, I'll have a
[Csus4]rum [C]and coca-[Csus4]cola" .. [C]She said
[G7add7 ] "fine" and in a thirty seconds time she said
[Chorus - Bass drum on 1 and 3]
[F] "I want to live like common people
I want to do whatever common people do
[C] I want to sleep with common people
I want to sleep with common people like
[G] you" .... Well, what else could I do?
I said "I'll see what I can do" [C]
[Vamp - Gentle drums - String slap for snare]
[C]
[Verse - Straight chords - don't follow melody - downstrokes predominantly]
[C] I took her to a supermarket
I don't know why but I had to start it some
[G] where - so it started there ........
[C] I said "Pretend you've got no money"
She just laughed and said "Oh, you're so funny" I said
[G] "Yeah, well I can't see someone else smiling in here
Are you sure
[Chorus - Downstrokes]
[F] you want to live like common people
You want to see whatever common people
[C] see - You want to sleep with common people
You want to sleep with common people like
[G] me" But she didn't understand,
she just smiled and held my
[C] hand
[Bridge - bit more drums - vocals double - Downstrokes]
Rent a
[C] flat above your shop, cut your hair
and get a job Smoke some
[G] fags and play some pool, pretend you
never went to school But still, you'll
[C] never get it right, 'cos when you're
laid in bed at night watching
[G] roaches climb the wall, if you called
your dad he could stop it all
[Chorus - Downstrokes]
[F] You'll never live like common people
You'll never do whatever common people
[C] do - You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of
[G] view And dance and drink and
screw because there's nothing else to
[C] do
[Instrumental - Keyboard Riff - Starts to speed up here - start to strum up and down]
[C] [G]
[C] [G] (1&2 3&4, 1&2 3&4 1 2 3 4 1&2&3&4)
[Chorus]
[F] Sing along with the common people,
Sing along and it might just get you
[C] thru - Laugh along with the common people
Laugh along even though they are laughing at
[G] you And the stupid things that you do
Because you think that poor is
[C] cool
[Outro]
[C]
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
Yeh ooh - la la la - Yeah eh - la la la-la-la
Yeh ooh - la la la - Yeah eh - la la la-la-la
Yeh ooh - la la la - Yeah eh - la la la-la-la
Oh Yeah
[End]
[Keyboard Riff]
E -3----1-0---7----5-3--
B -1----1-1---0----0-0--
G -0----0-0---0----0-0--
D -2----2-2---0----0-0--
A -3----3-3---x----x-x--
E ------------3----3-3--