Biography:
The Tiger Lillies are a three-piece band, formed in 1989 by singer-songwriter Martyn Jacques and based in London.
Currently Martyn Jacques, Adrian Stout, Adrian Huge (Past member Phil Butcher)
Their surreal style has been described as dark, darkly humorous, strangely humorous, Brechtian, and gypsy cabaret. They are also notorious for singing controversial songs involving bestiality, prostitution and blasphemy.
The Tiger Lillies were originally buskers, playing songs about the criminals, pimps and whores of Soho, London, England.
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Other songs:
- Arthur
- Open Your Legs
- Overtime
- Start A Fire
- Abort The Child
- Alone With The Moon
- Angel
- Bad
- Bank Robber Blues
- Beat Me
- Billys Blues
- Boatman
- Brick In The Wall
- Cancer
- Cheapest Show
- Circus Clown
- Clown
- Crack Of Doom
- Crude
- Deathless Man
- Deranged
- Drowning Girl Bertolt Brecht
- Fisheads
- Freakshow
- Getting Old
- Gonorrhoea
- Gouge My Eyes Out
- Hamsters
- Heaven To Hell
- Hell
- Heroin And Cocaine
- In Love With The Moon
- Interfered With
- Jackies Bar
- Kick A Baby
- Kick A Stick
- Lager Lout
- Maxwell
- Mountains Of Madness
- Mummy
- Murder
- Nightingale
- No Ones Clown
- Old Gracefully
- Picadilly Lilly
- Piss On Your Grave
- Pretty Little Arms
- Pretty Soon
- Punch Judy
- Rapist
- Roll Up
- Rue Dauseil
- Russians
- Same Old Story
- Sick
- Silors
- Snip Snip
- Soho News
- Souvenirs
- Swing Em High
- Terrible
- Tiger Lillie Line
- Violin Time
- Wake Up
- Whore
- Your Suicides
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Tiger Lillies - Fisheads
Fm
Fisheads in the gutters,
Bbm
The whores are old and tired.
Eb
Sailors are tellin' tales,
Ab
Sailors are all liars.
C Db
And the fisheads are their only meal,
C Db
They lie in their stomachs and congeal.
Fm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Bbm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Eb
Fisheads (fisheads),
Ab
Fisheads (fisheads),
C Db C Db
Fisheads, those fisheads.
Fm
Thieves go out thieving,
Bbm
The old men expire.
Eb
The seagulls scream obscenities
Ab
From the churches' spires.
C Db
And the fisheads are their only meal,
C Db
they lie in their stomachs and congeal.
Fm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Bbm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Eb
Fisheads (fisheads),
Ab
Fisheads (fisheads),
C Db C Db
Fisheads, those fisheads.
Fm
The street singers sing,
Bbm
Their throats on fire,
Eb
And the crucifixes fall
Ab
From the church's spire.
C Db
And the fisheads are their only meals,
C Db
They lie in their stomachs and congeal.
Fm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Bbm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Eb
Fisheads (fisheads),
Ab
Fisheads (fisheads),
C Db C Db
Fisheads, those fisheads (and the...)
Fm
Police round up the thieves,
Bbm
Kick them about.
Eb
The thieves all scream
Ab
And the thieves all shout.
C Db
And the fisheads, they vomit them out,
C Db
Those fisheads scream and shout.
Fm
Yeah, fisheads (fisheads),
Bbm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Eb
Fisheads (fisheads),
Ab
Fisheads (fisheads),
C Db C Db
Fisheads, those fisheads.
tabbed by timothio
Fm
Fisheads in the gutters,
Bbm
The whores are old and tired.
Eb
Sailors are tellin' tales,
Ab
Sailors are all liars.
C Db
And the fisheads are their only meal,
C Db
They lie in their stomachs and congeal.
Fm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Bbm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Eb
Fisheads (fisheads),
Ab
Fisheads (fisheads),
C Db C Db
Fisheads, those fisheads.
Fm
Thieves go out thieving,
Bbm
The old men expire.
Eb
The seagulls scream obscenities
Ab
From the churches' spires.
C Db
And the fisheads are their only meal,
C Db
they lie in their stomachs and congeal.
Fm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Bbm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Eb
Fisheads (fisheads),
Ab
Fisheads (fisheads),
C Db C Db
Fisheads, those fisheads.
Fm
The street singers sing,
Bbm
Their throats on fire,
Eb
And the crucifixes fall
Ab
From the church's spire.
C Db
And the fisheads are their only meals,
C Db
They lie in their stomachs and congeal.
Fm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Bbm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Eb
Fisheads (fisheads),
Ab
Fisheads (fisheads),
C Db C Db
Fisheads, those fisheads (and the...)
Fm
Police round up the thieves,
Bbm
Kick them about.
Eb
The thieves all scream
Ab
And the thieves all shout.
C Db
And the fisheads, they vomit them out,
C Db
Those fisheads scream and shout.
Fm
Yeah, fisheads (fisheads),
Bbm
Fisheads (fisheads),
Eb
Fisheads (fisheads),
Ab
Fisheads (fisheads),
C Db C Db
Fisheads, those fisheads.
tabbed by timothio
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