Biography:
Terry Hall (born 19 March 1959, in Coventry, England) was the lead singer of The Specials, the Fun Boy Three, The Colourfield, Terry, Blair and Anouchka and Vegas. He released his first solo album, Home, in 1995. He has also worked with The Lightning Seeds, Stephen Duffy, Dub Pistols, Gorillaz and Tricky.
Hall was an active member of the burgeoning Coventry music scene of the late 1970s, playing in local punk band Squad, and being credited as a composer on their single "Red Alert" / "£8 a Week".
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Terry Hall - Ballad of the landlord
[Intro]
Am Am
[Verse 1]
Am Dm
On the day you arrived the bedroom curtains were drawn
G C
all was still the way you left it same number on the door
Am Dm
?asy come, easy go what a way to treat your soul
G C Am
though i confess where once hearts rested, now there's nothing but a hole.
Am Dm
So the prodigal son returns i guess the pleasure's not enough
G Dm C Am
did he promise you the earth a world of beauty and the bluff.
Am Dm
I tried to tend the garden until the flowers fell to weed
G C Am
so now the place lies in a ruin the way you lied and ruined me
[Chorus]
Am Dm
Do i have the answer if I did I wouldn't know
G C
so take it if you want it if you don't then let me go.
[Verse 2]
Am Dm
Fake leopard skin fur says it all you never could be real
G C
how i long to taste the secrets from your lands of phoney tears
Am Dm
you tried to be a movement but there was no one on your side
G C
did you come back here to haunt me or to take me for a ride.
[Chorus]
Am Dm
Do I have the answer if I did I wouldn't know
G C
so take it if you want it if you don't then let me go.
[Bridge]
F E
But if you don’t just let me know
F E E E
If you don’t take yourself away, i've been here once before
E E E
and i can't have you hurting me anymore
[Chorus]
Am Dm
Do I have the answer if I did I wouldn't know
G C
so take it if you want it if you don't then let me go.
Am
But don’t make me the one
Dm
That makes you feel like you should go
G C
Just take it if you want it, if you don't then let it go.
F G Am
if you don't just let me know I can’t take anymore.
[Intro]
Am Am
[Verse 1]
Am Dm
On the day you arrived the bedroom curtains were drawn
G C
all was still the way you left it same number on the door
Am Dm
?asy come, easy go what a way to treat your soul
G C Am
though i confess where once hearts rested, now there's nothing but a hole.
Am Dm
So the prodigal son returns i guess the pleasure's not enough
G Dm C Am
did he promise you the earth a world of beauty and the bluff.
Am Dm
I tried to tend the garden until the flowers fell to weed
G C Am
so now the place lies in a ruin the way you lied and ruined me
[Chorus]
Am Dm
Do i have the answer if I did I wouldn't know
G C
so take it if you want it if you don't then let me go.
[Verse 2]
Am Dm
Fake leopard skin fur says it all you never could be real
G C
how i long to taste the secrets from your lands of phoney tears
Am Dm
you tried to be a movement but there was no one on your side
G C
did you come back here to haunt me or to take me for a ride.
[Chorus]
Am Dm
Do I have the answer if I did I wouldn't know
G C
so take it if you want it if you don't then let me go.
[Bridge]
F E
But if you don’t just let me know
F E E E
If you don’t take yourself away, i've been here once before
E E E
and i can't have you hurting me anymore
[Chorus]
Am Dm
Do I have the answer if I did I wouldn't know
G C
so take it if you want it if you don't then let me go.
Am
But don’t make me the one
Dm
That makes you feel like you should go
G C
Just take it if you want it, if you don't then let it go.
F G Am
if you don't just let me know I can’t take anymore.
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