#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 12:27:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Glen Norman Pavan artist: Sex Pistols title: Belsen Was a Gas album: The Great Rock and Roll Swindle tuning: standard There are two differing versions of this tune, the Sex Pistols version with Johnny Rotten and the one with Ronald Biggs. Here's both. F-G means slide up from the F to the G w/ Johnny Rotten intro: D C D Eb D C G x2 D C D Eb Belsen was a gas I heard the other day D C G In the open graves where the jews all lay D C D Eb Life is fun and I wish you were here D C G They wrote on postcards to those held dear chorus (played twice) C G C G C G F-G F-G oh dear oh dear oh dear second verse Sergeant majors on the march Wash their bodies in the starch See them all die one by one Guess it's dead guess it's glad chorus (twice) so bad so bad so bad intro repeat first verse outro: ad lib chorus with Ronald Biggs: ok, this time for real Belsen was a gasser intro: D C Bb C D C G x2 verse D C Bb C Belsen was a gas I heard the other day D C G In the open graves where the jews all lay D C Bb C Life is fun and I wish you were here D C G They wrote on postcards to those held dear chorus (same as other version) second verse Dentists search their teeth for gold Frisk the jews for bank notes rolled when they found out what they got Line them up and shoot the lot chorus kill a man be a man kill a man intro third verse Wonder what the jews would say If I told them where Boorman was today Would they start a vendetta you'd better ask Ernie Ledbetter chorus Ledbetter Ledbetter Ledbetter outro: ad lib chorus comments, corrections to senomar@bach.udel.edu -I'm here, I'm queer, I play 5-string bass