Biography:
Slow Gherkin was a ska band from Santa Cruz, US. The group disbanded after many years of local shows and a tour to Japan.
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
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SHED SOME SKIN - Slow Gherkin
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INTRO:
B F# Abm Ebm E B F# F#
VERSE:
B F#
It's Christmas Day in gay Paris
Abm Ebm
Not so gay for Galen Z.
E B
Sixteen hours in a sweaty kitchen
F#
For money that makes minimum wage look good.
B F#
6 a.m. on the subway
Abm Ebm
Stop station, through the doorway
E B
Crowds of people standing, yelling, screaming
F#
"What's going on? I must be dreaming."
CHORUS:
Abm
And the city forgets
Ebm
They didn't even perceive
Abm
And the trains keep blowing up
C#5 E
week after week.
[REPEAT INTRO]
VERSE:
B F#
Franzel's traveled wide and far
Abm Ebm
Back from the U.S.S.R.
E B
Went there to pursue a lifelong calling
F#
You found only numb toes and helpless longing.
B F#
Now you're back at home today
Abm Ebm
Back in the old USA.
E B
Scoop up handfuls of your native dust
F#
And cross the country in a Greyhound bus.
CHORUS:
Abm
Another failed attempt
Ebm
It's no use trying to pretend
Abm
Now you're right back
C#5 E
where you started again.
[REPEAT INTRO]
BRIDGE:
B G
Abm B F#
I saw what's wrong but I didn't see how
Abm E
I saw, I saw
B F#
We're all grown up now.
VERSE:
B F#
Today's your twentieth birthday
Abm Ebm
Alone you walk the banks of Maine
E B
As time runs out to write the second verse of
F#
The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock.
B F#
While you're gone we'll be here still
Abm Ebm
Just beyond those distant hills
E B
Could be that you got the upper hand
F#
When you left this rustic never-never land.
CHORUS:
Abm
And my breathing constricts
Ebm
I feel the walls closing in
Abm
Could it be that finally we're all
C#5 E
Shedding some skin.
[REPEAT INTRO]
SHED SOME SKIN - Slow Gherkin
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INTRO:
B F# Abm Ebm E B F# F#
VERSE:
B F#
It's Christmas Day in gay Paris
Abm Ebm
Not so gay for Galen Z.
E B
Sixteen hours in a sweaty kitchen
F#
For money that makes minimum wage look good.
B F#
6 a.m. on the subway
Abm Ebm
Stop station, through the doorway
E B
Crowds of people standing, yelling, screaming
F#
"What's going on? I must be dreaming."
CHORUS:
Abm
And the city forgets
Ebm
They didn't even perceive
Abm
And the trains keep blowing up
C#5 E
week after week.
[REPEAT INTRO]
VERSE:
B F#
Franzel's traveled wide and far
Abm Ebm
Back from the U.S.S.R.
E B
Went there to pursue a lifelong calling
F#
You found only numb toes and helpless longing.
B F#
Now you're back at home today
Abm Ebm
Back in the old USA.
E B
Scoop up handfuls of your native dust
F#
And cross the country in a Greyhound bus.
CHORUS:
Abm
Another failed attempt
Ebm
It's no use trying to pretend
Abm
Now you're right back
C#5 E
where you started again.
[REPEAT INTRO]
BRIDGE:
B G
Abm B F#
I saw what's wrong but I didn't see how
Abm E
I saw, I saw
B F#
We're all grown up now.
VERSE:
B F#
Today's your twentieth birthday
Abm Ebm
Alone you walk the banks of Maine
E B
As time runs out to write the second verse of
F#
The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock.
B F#
While you're gone we'll be here still
Abm Ebm
Just beyond those distant hills
E B
Could be that you got the upper hand
F#
When you left this rustic never-never land.
CHORUS:
Abm
And my breathing constricts
Ebm
I feel the walls closing in
Abm
Could it be that finally we're all
C#5 E
Shedding some skin.
[REPEAT INTRO]
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