People Just Want To Dream by Microdisney
From Microdisney’s 1987 Crooked Mile album. Written by Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan. No capo.
INTRO
[E]
VERSE 1
She’s a [E] big fat [F#] matron with turquoise [A/B] hair
She is [E] lunging for the [F#] black and red lounging [A/B] chair
She says [B6] “Take it anyway you want but everyone de [Amaj7] sires me
From the [B6] soles of my hand made shoes right up to my [C#m] hard- [E] earned [F#] crown”
VERSE 2
She [E] nods at the [F#] architect on T. [A/B] V.
Who says [E] “People, [F#] people just want to [A/B] dream”
So [B6] tell it to the kids making whoopee with the tin-foil [Amaj7] dragon
Because [B6] soon they’ll have to go so make real sure they know that [C#m] mo [E] ney [F#] is [C#m] eve [E] ry [F#] thing
CHORUS 1
[D] Don’t make the [C] gentry mean, [G] it’s for you they [Am] dream
[D] With their [C] ugly clothes and [G] carnage maga [Am] zines
VERSE 3
The [E] High Street, it [F#] used to be such a [A/B] slum (Petrol queues and bomb scares and liberal confusion)
Until we [E] prised it a [F#] way from the welfare [A/B] scum (Marching piggy-wiggy and bovine retribution)
Oh [B6] take it any way you want, everything is [Amaj7] better
We [B6] mused to play around before too long we found that [C#m] mo [E] ney [F#] is [C#m] eve [E] ry [F#] thing
CHORUS 2
[D] Don’t make the [C] gentry mean, [G] it’s for you they [Am] dream
[D] In their [C] private homes their [G] hatred flows in [Am] streams
[D] People, [C] people just, [G] people want to [Am] dream
[D] Just look [C] at their graves and [G] you’ll see what I [Am] mean
OUTRO/FADE
[E] Let’s [F#] leave [F#7] them [F#m7] to [A/B] dream
[E] Let’s [F#] leave [F#7] them [F#m7] to [A/B] (Got no lives)
[E] Let’s [F#] leave [F#7] them [F#m7] to [A/B] dream
[E] Let’s [F#] leave [F#7] them [F#m7] to [A/B] dream (And dream and dream and dream)
[E] [F#] [F#7] [F#m7] [A/B]