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Here's a song you might be interested in if you do'nt have the music for it already.
RIFF 1
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Bm E RIFF1 Bm E RIFF1
Call me morbid, call me pale. I've spent six years on your trail
Bm A G E Esus4 E
six long years on your trail.
Bm E RIFF 1 Bm E RIFF 1
Call me morbid, call me pale. I've spent six years on your trail
Bm A G E Esus4 E
six full years of my life on your trail.
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And if you have five seconds to spare, then I'll tell you the story of my life.
D A Gb Bm G
Sixteen clumsy and shy, I went to London and I
D A Gb
I booked myself in at the Y W C A
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I said "i like it here, can I stay?", "i like it here, can I stay?",
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Do you have a vacancy for a back scrubber?
Well, the song just continues from there with the same basic chord sequences,
Not a complex song, but a brilliant one
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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massie Professional Badass |
#1 by massie at Jan 1, 1972 at 10:07 PM EST |
| i especially like the repetition of certain phrases within the lyrics - e.g. "six long years on your trail." The repetition gives the phrase a feeling of almost an indictment of the other person. | |
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jamie Lead Player |
#2 by jamie mordue at Jul 9, 1975 at 9:11 PM EST |
| One of the most fantastic verses in this song: I've spent six years on your trail Six full years of my life on your trail And if you have five seconds to spare Then I'll tell you the story of my life: He spends 6 full years obsessed with a person and asks back only 5 seconds from her! This is fantastic! This is Morrissey!!!! | |
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Terence Average |
#3 by Terence Taylor at Feb 26, 1976 at 6:03 PM EST |
| i can't pick a favorite, i normally have a favorite for the week of theirs...this is definitely a great song though. | |
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Ben Rhythm Player |
#4 by Ben at Feb 12, 1979 at 8:44 PM EST |
| But who was he spending six years tailing? | |
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chris the pirat Lead Player |
#5 by chris the pirate. arr at Dec 5, 1980 at 3:10 AM EST |
| Yeah it sounds like 'equally dour' to me, also I thought it was "I went to london and died" not "I went to london and I"...works both ways | |
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Jacob Lead Player |
#6 by Jacob Julian at Jan 12, 1988 at 1:29 AM EST |
| i love this song. i tried looking for some hidden meaning but all i could come up with was that it's this guy who chased this girl and that they were both poor but when he came back from the "YWCA" he was better off and he had changed. maybe it has nothing to do with money. but i love this song. | |
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Dudevill Average |
#7 by Dudevill at Mar 18, 1989 at 8:21 PM EST |
| perhaps its about a gay 'whore', scrubber is a bit of a whore, a backsrubber would be a male gay version | |
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zach Wanna Be |
#8 by zach miles at Aug 14, 1991 at 2:59 AM EST |
| scrubber - an easy girl. i supose it could have homosexual connetations too. but i always got the impression that it was a girl saying that bit who was talking to morrisey, or whoever. which sort of explains why its the YWCA. but anyway, its a great song | |
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jga Average |
#9 by jga qup at May 29, 1993 at 7:03 AM EST |
| and she wrote to me equally dour she said in the days when you were hopelessly poor I just liked you more....Poetry and poignancy the two leathal weapons of the Mozzer. Some of these phrases will just float around in your head for days they're so elegant... | |
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GRIM Professional |
#10 by GRIM at May 4, 1996 at 9:35 PM EST |
| From Nick Kent's 1990 "The Face" interview with Morrissey: In my favourite of your confessional songs - "Half A Person" - you sing about being hopelessly smitten with a girl who, after you return to impress her as a famous personage, simply tells you, "When you were hopelessly poor I just liked you more"... Is that autobiographical? Morrissey: "Yes, that is all absolutely true. She does exist." | |
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albert Rhythm Player |
#11 by albert casualtie at Jun 18, 1998 at 1:31 PM EST |
| Boss Man is right! You guys are missing a good joke! See, historically, when a man is down and out and broke, he goes to the YMCA (Young Mens Christian Association) for a cheap place to sleep. In this case, he went to the YWCA (Womens!). He asks if they have a vacancy (he's a man!) He offers his services as someone who will stand in the shower scrubbing womens' backs for them (as if that would seal the deal)! | |
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NIK Average |
#12 by NIK blaszczyszyn at May 21, 2001 at 10:18 PM EST |
| Please! Please! Please ! Don't! A back scubber would be someone who scrubs your back when you're in the bath! The joke being: Morrissey, a male, wanting such a job in a female institution. Not that there is such a job...except maybe in Prince Charles house. | |
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