Tablature white houses - The Animals

          



 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 06:44:09 -0700

  From: brucea@tic.ab.ca (Bruce Armstrong)

  Subject: /a/animals/white_houses.crd

  

  White Houses - Animals

  

  A G D E x 2

  

  A               G                   D                    E

  White houses in neat little rows contrasting against the sky

  A                         G               D                             E

  Tumbled down black shacks over the tracks children so hungry they could cry

      A                    G           D                     E

  The chrome the steel the metal dream leaving the teepee to rot

        A                 G                  D                   E

  The escapist young mind left behind saving dimes for community pot

  

                  A        G D

  You better get straight

  E                  A         G

  Better, better get straight

  D E                    A                   G

  I mean you better get straight right now

  D                  E                   A             G D E

  Better get it, you better, better get straight babe

  

  

          A                   G                     D                            E

  They're crying out for love all the time but they fail to see their 

  neighbours eyes

      A        G                  D                         E

  The TV is on 6 o'clock news the channel's in full colored lies

      A                  G                     D                   E

  The company meets, the President speaks he's young but his bones creak

        A                    G                         D                E

  Young girl dresses for the high school dance and the guy next door is dyin' 

  for a peek

  

  

      A        G

  Get straight

      D       E                    A               G

  You better, yeah, you better get straight babe

    D        E                  A             G

  Oh did you get what I said, I said to you

       D        E                      A

  That you, you better, you better get angry

      G           D                    E

  You better, you better get straight

  

  

  

  SOLO (32 bars)

  

  

             A                          G                   D                E

  They put a bible in the drawer of the motel room and it's crying out to be read

         A                    G                    D                        E

  But it stays right there collecting dust, no one understands what's being said

  A                   G           D                   E

  Lovers make love in comfy boxes, what will tomorrow bring

               A                             G                  D              

             E

  They've been told that it's wrong but they don't give a damn, soon another 

  life it will bring

  

  

                 A              G

  You better get straight baby

  D    E                    A             G

  Yeah you, you better get straight baby

  D             E               A                   G

  Oh and I think I better get myself to get it babe

                  D           E                 A G

  You know what I mean I been bent so very long

          D                  E

  I wanna fly right, I wanna do it alright

  

  etc.

  

  

  Bruce

  

  

   


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