Biography:
punk and mod group formed in Woking, UK, in 1976 consisting of Paul Weller (vocals, guitar), Bruce Foxton (bass, vocals) and Rick Buckler (drums). The band split in 1982. The band released six albums and had 18 consecutive Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom between 1977 and 1982, including four #1 singles (Going Underground, Start!, Town Called Malice and Beat Surrender). Their singles "That's Entertainment" and "Just Who Is the Five O'Clock Hero" are the best selling import singles in UK history.
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Other songs:
- That's Entertainment
- Town Called Malice
- To Be Someone
- A Bomb In Wardour Street
- Absolute Beginners
- All Around The World
- All Mod Cons
- Art School
- Away From The Numbers
- Beat Surrender
- Billy Hunt
- Boy About Town
- Burning Sky
- But Im Different Now
- Carnaby Street
- Carnation
- David Watts
- Disguises
- Dont Tell Them Youre Sane
- Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
- Dream Time
- Endless Love
- English Rose
- Eton Rifles
- Funeral Pyre
- Ghosts
- Give Me Just A Little More Time
- Going Underground
- Happy Together
- Heatwave
- Here Comes The Weekend
- I Got By In Time
- I Need You For Someone
- In The City
- In The Crowd
- In The Midnight Hour
- In The Street Today
- Its Too Bad
- Just Who Is The 5 Oclock Hero
- Just Who Is The Five O Clock Hero
- Kilos Kabataan
- Life From A Window
- Liza Radley
- London Girl
- London Traffic
- Man In The Corner Shop
- Modern World
- Mr Clean
- News Of The World
- Non Stop Dancing
- Pity Poor Alfie
- Planners Dream Goes Wrong
- Precious
- Private Hell
- Reach Out Ill Be There
- Saturdays Kids
- Slow Down
- Smithers Jones
- So Sad About Us
- Sounds From The Street
- Standards
- Start
- Strange Town
- Sweet Soul Music
- Tales From The Riverbank
- Thats Entertainment
- The Bitterest Pill
- The Butterfly Collector
- The Combine
- The Gift
- The Modern World
- The Night
- The Place I Love
- The Planners Dream Goes Wrong
- Thick As Thieves
- This Is The Modern World
- To Be
- Tonight At Noon
- War
- Wasteland
- When Youre Young
- Worlds Apart
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Transcribed by Shaun Hand,
3rd October 2000, 9.43pm
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SATURDAY'S KIDS
(Weller)
From the LP 'Setting Sons'
Chords used:
G: 355433 A: 577655
C: x3555x F: 133211
D: x5777x Gsus4: xx5533
E: 022100
C#m: x46654
N.C. (Riff 1 x4)
G C D (x2)
la,la,la,la...
G C D
Saturday's boys live life with insults,
G C D
Drink lots of beer and wait for half-time results.
E C#m
Afternoon tea in the lite-a-bite,
A D
Chat up the girls, they dig it!
G C D
Saturday's girls work in Tesco's and Woolworths,
G C D
Wear chep perfume cos it's all they can afford.
E C#m
Got to discos they drink Babycham,
A D
Talk to Jan - in bingo accents.
G C D (x2)
La la la...
G C D
Saturday's kids play on one arm bandits,
G C D
They never win, but that's not the point is it?
E C#m
Get themselves a paper when their pints go flat,
A D
How about that? - Far out, man!
G C D
Their mums and dads smoke Capstan non-filters,
G C D
Wallpaper lives cos they all die of cancer,
E C#m
What goes on? - what goes wrong?
A D
Save up their money for a holiday,
A D
To Selsey Bill or Bracklesham Bay,
A D
Think about the future - when they'll settle down
A D
Marry the girl next door - with one on the way.
C
These are the real creatures that time has forgot,
D
Not given a thought.
E F G
It's the system - hate the system - what's the syste - m?
G C D (x4)
Oh.
G Gsus4 (x4)
G Gsus4 G Gsus4
Saturday's kids live in council houses, wear V-neck shirts and baggy trousers,
G C D G C D
Saturday's kids live in council houses, wear V-neck shirts and baggy trousers.
G C D (x2)
E C#m
Drive Cortina's fur trimmed dashboard,
A D
Stains on the seats - in the back of course!
G C D (x8)
la, la, la
G
3rd October 2000, 9.43pm
[email protected]
SATURDAY'S KIDS
(Weller)
From the LP 'Setting Sons'
Chords used:
G: 355433 A: 577655
C: x3555x F: 133211
D: x5777x Gsus4: xx5533
E: 022100
C#m: x46654
N.C. (Riff 1 x4)
G C D (x2)
la,la,la,la...
G C D
Saturday's boys live life with insults,
G C D
Drink lots of beer and wait for half-time results.
E C#m
Afternoon tea in the lite-a-bite,
A D
Chat up the girls, they dig it!
G C D
Saturday's girls work in Tesco's and Woolworths,
G C D
Wear chep perfume cos it's all they can afford.
E C#m
Got to discos they drink Babycham,
A D
Talk to Jan - in bingo accents.
G C D (x2)
La la la...
G C D
Saturday's kids play on one arm bandits,
G C D
They never win, but that's not the point is it?
E C#m
Get themselves a paper when their pints go flat,
A D
How about that? - Far out, man!
G C D
Their mums and dads smoke Capstan non-filters,
G C D
Wallpaper lives cos they all die of cancer,
E C#m
What goes on? - what goes wrong?
A D
Save up their money for a holiday,
A D
To Selsey Bill or Bracklesham Bay,
A D
Think about the future - when they'll settle down
A D
Marry the girl next door - with one on the way.
C
These are the real creatures that time has forgot,
D
Not given a thought.
E F G
It's the system - hate the system - what's the syste - m?
G C D (x4)
Oh.
G Gsus4 (x4)
G Gsus4 G Gsus4
Saturday's kids live in council houses, wear V-neck shirts and baggy trousers,
G C D G C D
Saturday's kids live in council houses, wear V-neck shirts and baggy trousers.
G C D (x2)
E C#m
Drive Cortina's fur trimmed dashboard,
A D
Stains on the seats - in the back of course!
G C D (x8)
la, la, la
G
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