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 - Roll Up
Dm
Tattooed we dance the tango,
A
in a melancholy way,
A
Bearded ladies, muscle men,
Dm
freaks entering the affray.
Dm
Crowds come in from the suburbs
A
to observe the perverse,
A
Jimmy the pick-pocket he's on the loose,
Dm
Mind out and watch your purse.
Dm
Frankie the brain damaged boxer,
A
he's only got left a year,
A
The local bums take him for a round
Dm
and for his blood they cheer.
Dm
Prostitutes do good business,
A
they'll gob you for a days rent,
A
And if it's a boy that you're after,
Dm
they're over behind the tent.
Dm A
Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up
A Dm
Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up.
Dm
Pimps count their money,
A
they think they've got a good job.
A
It's better than being a gangster,
Dm
it's better than being a slob.
Dm
Pin-heads, Siamese twins, midgets
A
They all shock the best they can.
A
The gypsy fortune teller,
Dm
she knows we're all damned.
Dm
Our life's a side-show attraction,
A
we do our best to please,
A
Our life is a side-show attraction,
Dm
death, decay and disease,
Dm A
Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up
A Dm
Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up
Dm A
Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up
A Dm
Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up
tabbed by timothio
Dm
Tattooed we dance the tango,
A
in a melancholy way,
A
Bearded ladies, muscle men,
Dm
freaks entering the affray.
Dm
Crowds come in from the suburbs
A
to observe the perverse,
A
Jimmy the pick-pocket he's on the loose,
Dm
Mind out and watch your purse.
Dm
Frankie the brain damaged boxer,
A
he's only got left a year,
A
The local bums take him for a round
Dm
and for his blood they cheer.
Dm
Prostitutes do good business,
A
they'll gob you for a days rent,
A
And if it's a boy that you're after,
Dm
they're over behind the tent.
Dm A
Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up
A Dm
Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up.
Dm
Pimps count their money,
A
they think they've got a good job.
A
It's better than being a gangster,
Dm
it's better than being a slob.
Dm
Pin-heads, Siamese twins, midgets
A
They all shock the best they can.
A
The gypsy fortune teller,
Dm
she knows we're all damned.
Dm
Our life's a side-show attraction,
A
we do our best to please,
A
Our life is a side-show attraction,
Dm
death, decay and disease,
Dm A
Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up
A Dm
Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up
Dm A
Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up
A Dm
Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up
tabbed by timothio
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