Please Be Gentle With Me

     Intro: (roughly)
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     a) Opening bass riff which continues through the intro and most of the
        verse.


        D               G               D               D
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|--5-5---5-5-5---5-----------------5-5---5-5-5---5-5-5---5-5-5---5----| 
E|------------------3-3---3-3-3---3------------------------------------| 

     b) Next phrase, played on the CD on I don't know what instrument...

        D               G               D               D
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
E|------8-----7---------8-----7---------8-----7---------8-----7--------| 
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|------------------5--------------------------------------------------| 
A|--5-------------------------------5---------------5------------------| 
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------| 

     Verse 1: (Sung over the intro)
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     D         G           D  D
     Please be gentle with me,

               D         G                  D        D
     'cos I've been on a long, hard, losing streak,

              A                                 G
     And I've been down in the dumps, I've been well and truly humped,

            A
     And my clothes don't seem to fit,

            G                (DDDD D2D2D2 x 2)
     and my haircuts looking shit.


     NB For the "A-G" part above, use the same "G" riff from the intro, and
     an "A" riff, which is exactly the same but (predictably!) up two
     frets.

     Verse 2: (Turn up the distortion!)
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     D      D2 Gsus4  G    D D2 D D2
     Please be gentle with me,

            D       D2  Gsus4         G  D D2 D D2
     yes my singing has gone flat out of key,

             Asus4        A   Asus4 A           Gsus4     G Gsus4  G
     Oh I've been down in the bin, crawled back out back in again,
     And my clothes don't seem to fit, and my haircuts looking...

     (The Asus4/A might well be A/A2, or a combination of all three,
      but with all the distortion, who can tell?!?)

     Bridge:
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     C  G        D    C     G      D
      I say to myself, have I been cursed?

     C    G          D                C                    A
      Cos things are bad can they get worse? (can they get worse?)

     Verse 3:
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     D         G           D  D
     Please be gentle with me,  yes my

     D            G                   D      D
     backside, is hanging, out in the breeze

             A                            G
     Oh I've been down in the dumps, I've been well and truly humped,

            A
     And my clothes don't seem to fit,

            G               (DDDD D2D2D2 x 2)
     yes my haircuts looking shit.

     Solo (sort of):
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        F#m             Bm              F#m             Bm
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|--------7-------------------------------7----------------------------| 
G|------------6-----4-6-4-6-4-6-4-6-----------6-----4-6-4-6-4-6-4-6----| 
D|--7-------------7-----------------7-------------7--------------------| 
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------| 

     Bend each note up a semitone and down again as it's played, and use
     some sort of effect. Alternatively, play it on a keyboard...

     Bridge:
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     C  G        D    C     G      D
      I say to myself, have I been cursed?

     C    G          D                C                    A
      Cos things are bad can they get worse? (can they get worse?)

     Final part-verse: (different chord sequence)
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     D          G           Bm     A           D
     Please, be gentle with me, be gentle with me

     Tab to play under above phrase:-

        D               G               Bm              A
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
E|------8-----7---------8-----7---------7-----5---------10----9--------| 
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|----------------------------------4----------------------------------| 
D|------------------5-------------------------------7------------------| 
A|--5------------------------------------------------------------------| 
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------| 

     Outro:
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     C          G          (D Dsus4 x 4)
     Please, be gentle with me

     CHORDS:
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             6 5 4 3 2 1
             ===========

     C       x 3 2 0 1 0

     D       x x 0 2 3 2

     D2      x x 0 2 3 0

     Dsus4   x x 0 2 3 3

     A       0 0 2 2 2 0

     A2      0 0 2 2 0 0

     Asus4   0 0 2 2 3 0

     G       3 2 0 0 3 3

     Gsus4   3 2 0 0 1 3

     F#m     2 4 4 2 2 2