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From: dmitri drozhko [dmitri25@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 1997 9:28 PM
Title: Mile End
Artist: Pulp (Written by Banks/Cocker/Mackey/Webber/Doyle/Seniour)
Source: Really nice song from Trainspotting soundtrack. Enjoy!
Transcribed by Dmitri Drozhko
Intro
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(verse 1)
F
We didn't have no where to live,
C
We didn't have no where to go
'til someone said
Bb
"I know this place off Burditt Road."
F
It was on the fifteenth floor,
C
It had a board across the door.
It took an hour
Bb
To pry it off and get inside.
Bbm
It smelt as if someone had died.
The living-room was full of flies,
F
The kitchen sink was blocked,
C
the bathroom sink not there at all.
Cm Bb
Ooh, it's a mess alright,
Bbm F
Yes it's Mile End.
(verse 2)
And now we're living in the sky!
I'd never thought I'd live so high,
Just like Heaven (if it didn't look like Hell.)
The lift is always full of piss,
The fifth floor landing smells of fish
(Not just on Friday, every single other day.)
Below the kids come out tonight,
They kick a ball and have a fight
And maybe shoot somebody if they lose at pool.
(chorus)
Ooh, it's a mess alright,
Yes it's Mile End. [mumbled mutterings....]
Oo-ooh
(verse 3)
Nobody wants to be your friend
'cause you're not from round here,
ooh as if that was something to be proud about.
The pearly king of the Isle of Dogs
feels up children in the bogs.
Down by the playing fields,
someone sets a car on fire
I guess you have to go right down
before you understand just how,
how low, how low a human being can go.
(chorus)
Ooh, it's a mess alright,
yes it's Mile End. (don't do that! Leave it out!) Bababa...
Lalala...
Chords
F 133211
C 335553
Cm 335543
Bb 113331
Bbm 113321
What do you call a musician without a girlfriend?
Homeless:)
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Drake Average |
#1 by Drake Bergman at Jan 16, 1978 at 11:32 AM EST |
| i only heard this pulp song due to watching the film trainspotting, i love pulp and when i heard this one nothing changed! though watching the film it is clearly written for it. doesnt stop it being good! | |
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Rich Average |
#2 by Rich Frazer at Jun 20, 1978 at 4:28 PM EST |
| I can't believe no one has commented, I love this song...I love the fact it is talking about such a crap place in a really dancy song. It's just talking about a complete dump, but it makes me want to dance! Also, I like that Jarvis's voice sounds like he really hates the place, but again it's against a really cheery dancy beat. | |
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I fought the la Average |
#3 by I fought the law and the law kicked my ass I never learn do i...?? at Sep 4, 1999 at 5:22 PM EST |
| I didn't know you could get internet hook up as a squatter. Pay as you go? | |
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Jimmy "Hoffa" Average |
#4 by Jimmy "Hoffa" at Feb 21, 2000 at 6:09 AM EST |
| One of my many fave Pulp tunes. Living knee deep in crap and loving it for the moment. A defiantly joyful punch at anyone who would hold their low class squatter attitude in contempt! | |
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Average |
#5 by Fig at Jul 15, 2006 at 11:12 AM EST |
| I wonder if the Pulp really squatted there. Being a squatter, this song means a whole deal to me. Both the joy and ache of hitting rock bottom. | |
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