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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[Intro]
Dm Am Dm Am
Dm Am E
[Verse 1]
Dm Am Dm Am
The gigolo, the gigolo is charging twice the price
Dm Am Dm Am
To the priest in holy orders who lives a life of vice
Dm Am Dm Am
He pleads for mercy, God says no
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
[Verse 2]
Dm Am Dm Am
The old lady's savings time do erode
Dm Am Dm Am
She can't pay for the heating, off the heating goes
Dm Am Dm Am
She pleads for mercy, God says no
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
[Verse 3]
Dm Am Dm Am
The body snatcher's got no bodies to sell
Dm Am Dm Am
It leads him, it leads him to a life of hell
Dm Am Dm Am
He pleads for mercy, God says no
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high (swing 'em high), swing 'em low (swing 'em low)
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high (swing 'em high), swing 'em low (swing 'em low)
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high (swing 'em high), swing 'em low (swing 'em low)
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
[Verse 4]
Dm Am Dm Am
Well, the gigolo dies at the age of fourty-three
Dm Am Dm Am
Of a muscle wasting disease
Dm Am Dm Am
Pleads for mercy, God says no
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
[Verse 5]
Dm Am Dm Am
And the body snatcher dies at an early age
Dm Am Dm Am
And the old lady's pneumonia did rage
Dm Am Dm Am
Pleaded for mercy, God said no
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
[Verse 6]
Dm Am Dm Am
And the priest died of syphilis, he died in pain
Dm Am Dm Am
He went to God, he tried to explain
Dm Am Dm Am
He pleaded for mercy, God said no
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high (swing 'em high), swing 'em low (swing 'em low)
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high (swing 'em high), swing 'em low (swing 'em low)
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high (swing 'em high), swing 'em low (swing 'em low)
E E E E
Swing 'em high (high), high (high), high (high), high (high)
E E E E
High (high), high (high), hiiigh
Dm
Swing 'em low
[Outro]
Am Dm Am
E E
Am E Am
Dm Am Dm Am
Dm Am E
[Verse 1]
Dm Am Dm Am
The gigolo, the gigolo is charging twice the price
Dm Am Dm Am
To the priest in holy orders who lives a life of vice
Dm Am Dm Am
He pleads for mercy, God says no
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
[Verse 2]
Dm Am Dm Am
The old lady's savings time do erode
Dm Am Dm Am
She can't pay for the heating, off the heating goes
Dm Am Dm Am
She pleads for mercy, God says no
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
[Verse 3]
Dm Am Dm Am
The body snatcher's got no bodies to sell
Dm Am Dm Am
It leads him, it leads him to a life of hell
Dm Am Dm Am
He pleads for mercy, God says no
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high (swing 'em high), swing 'em low (swing 'em low)
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high (swing 'em high), swing 'em low (swing 'em low)
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high (swing 'em high), swing 'em low (swing 'em low)
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
[Verse 4]
Dm Am Dm Am
Well, the gigolo dies at the age of fourty-three
Dm Am Dm Am
Of a muscle wasting disease
Dm Am Dm Am
Pleads for mercy, God says no
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
[Verse 5]
Dm Am Dm Am
And the body snatcher dies at an early age
Dm Am Dm Am
And the old lady's pneumonia did rage
Dm Am Dm Am
Pleaded for mercy, God said no
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
[Verse 6]
Dm Am Dm Am
And the priest died of syphilis, he died in pain
Dm Am Dm Am
He went to God, he tried to explain
Dm Am Dm Am
He pleaded for mercy, God said no
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high, swing 'em low
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high (swing 'em high), swing 'em low (swing 'em low)
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high (swing 'em high), swing 'em low (swing 'em low)
E E Am Am
Swing 'em high (swing 'em high), swing 'em low (swing 'em low)
E E E E
Swing 'em high (high), high (high), high (high), high (high)
E E E E
High (high), high (high), hiiigh
Dm
Swing 'em low
[Outro]
Am Dm Am
E E
Am E Am
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