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    AMUSED TO DEATH TAB




    AMUSED TO DEATH
    Roger Waters


    INTRO:
    (Television rambling)
           e----------------
           B----------3-----
           G-------2-----2--  Repeat throughout song
           D----0----------- Notes are muted until much later.
           A----------------
           E----------------


    VERSE:
    Bm           A          G        Em
    Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me
    Bm   A          G        Em
    This supermarket life is getting long
    Bm   A G        Em
    What is the heart life of a colour TV  
    Bm          A  G        Em  C
    What is the shelf life of a teenage queen

    D   Dsus2  D G
    Ooh Western woman
    D   Dsus2  D G
    Ooh Western girl

    Bm
    New hounds sniff the air
         A           G  Em
    When Jessica Hahn goes down
    Bm       A  G  Em  
    He latches onto that symbol of detachment
    Bm             A      G   Em
    attracted by the peeling away of feeling
    Bm                A     G     Em  C
    The celebrity of the abused shell the belle

    D     Dsus2 D G
    Ooh Western woman
    D    Dsus2  D   G
    Ooh Western girl

    D    Dsus2  D G
    Ooh Western woman
    D    Dsus2  D   G
    Ooh Western girl

    D
    And the children of Melrose
    D  Dsus2
    Strut their stuff
     G
    Is absolute zero cold enough
    D          Dsus2  D
    And out in the valley warm and clean
      G
    The little ones sit by their TV screens
    D         Dsus2  D
    No thoughts to think
    G
    No tears to cry
    G     A    Bm
    All sucked dry
            A         G
    Down to the very last breath
    Em      A
    Bartender what is wrong with me?
    Em         A
    Why am I so out of breath?
    Em      A
    The captain said excuse me ma'am
    Em        A
    This species has amused itself to death

    (intro notes comes in full force)

    D        Dsus2  D   G
    Amused itself to death
    D        Dsus2  D   G
    Amused itself to death
    D         Dsus2    D       G
    We watched the tragedy unfold

    We did as we were told
    D
    We bought and sold
           Dsus2   D      G
    It was the greatest show on earth

    But then it was over
    D
    we ohhed and aahed
             Dsus2   D
    we drove our racing cars
    G
    We ate our last few jars of cavier
    D
    And somewhere out there in the stars
       Dsus2       D
    A keen-eyed look-out
    G
    Spied a flickering light
                D
    Our last hurrah
                G
    Our last hurrah

    Em             A
    And when they found our shadows
    Em       A
    Grouped around the TV sets
    Em   A
    They ran down every lead
    Em   A
    They repeated every test
    Bm               G
    They checked out all the data on their lists
             Bm
    And then the alien anthropologists
    G        Em      < before playing Em hit 2nd fret on low E
    Admitted they were still perplexed
    D              
    But on eliminating every other reason
    Dsus2  D   G
    For our sad demise
    D                      Dsus2  D    G
    They logged the explanation left
    G           Bm
    This species has amused itself to death

    Bm   A   G   Em        <  Step from G to Em with the F# note here as well.
    Bm   A   G   Em
    repeat and fade

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