High And Dry by Microdisney
From Microdisney’s 1988 39 Minutes album. Written by Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan. Capo on 1st fret.
INTRO
[E6] [E] [B9sus4]
VERSE 1
[C#m] Why’d you have to leave me for [E7] some Albanian gambler on the [A] Beirut train [A6]
When I’d finished [C#m] laughing, [E] I celebrated with a [A] glass of paint [A6]
[E] You’ve got [A] dreams and [C#m7] I’ve got [Bm7] demons
[A] I forgive you [Abm] all because you’re [F#m] really into [B9sus4] what you [E] do [Bm7]
CHORUS 1
[E6] High and [E] dry [E6] [E]
Not a [B9sus4] cloud in the sky
[E6] Histo [E] ry [E6] [E]
Somebody [B9sus4] canonise me
VERSE 2
[C#m] Mondays I go clubbing [E7] just outside of Leipzig in a [A] pin-striped suit [A6]
And a bunch of [C#m] roses, [E7] strolling through the vestry being [A] beaten up [A6]
By those [E] English [A] beer-boys, [C#m7] Soho [Bm7] tea-boys
[A] I forgive them [Abm] all because they’re [F#m] really into [B9sus4] what they [E] do [Bm7]
CHORUS 2
[E6] High and [E] dry [E6] [E]
Not a [B9sus4] cloud in the sky
[E6] Histo [E] ry [E6] [E]
Don’t take no [B9sus4] notice of me
INTERLUDE
[F#m7] [Abm7] [A] [C#m7] [E]
[F#m7] [Abm7] [A]
VERSE 3
[E] Sirens [A] scream like [C#m7] unfed [Bm7] babies
[A] Don’t you blame the [Abm] viruses they’re [F#m] really into [B9sus4] what they [E] do [Bm7]
CHORUS 3/OUTRO
[E] High and dry [E6] [E]
Oh what a [B9sus4] prophet am I
[E] Showbiz clown [E6] [E]
Don’t have the [B9sus4] brains in this town (See you all in hell)
[E] High and dry [E6] [E]
They say there’s [B9sus4] snow in July (See you in hell)
[E] Have no say [E6] [E]
So you can [B9sus4] throw me away
[E] High and dry [E6] [E]
Not a [B9sus4] cloud in the sky (See you all in hell)
[E] High and dry [E6] [E]
Kiss the [B9sus4] logic goodbye