Kid Charlemagne

Steely Dan

Tom: C


INTRO: 
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 C7/9+ 
 
 

VERSE 1: 
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Am                          G6 
 While the music played you worked by candle light 
 
      F6/9                                Bb13 
Those San Fransisco nights, they were the best in town 
 
Am                            G6 
 Just by chance you crossed a diamond with a pearl 
 
    F6/9                                    Bb13 
You turned it on the world, that's when you turned the world around 
 
F6          G        Am      G6            Dm7    Em7 Dm7 
  Did you feel like Jesus      Did you realise 
 
                 Em7               Fmaj7   Em7  Dm7 
That you were a champion in their eyes ? 
 
C7/9+ 
 
 

VERSE 2: 
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On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene 
But yours was kitchen clean 
Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolour motorhome 
Every A-frame had your number on the wall 
You must have had it all 
You'd go to LA on a dare and you'd go it alone 
Could you live forever 
Could you see the day 
Did you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away 
 

CHORUS : 
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Dm7      Em7       Dm7      Em7 
Get along            Get along Kid Charlemagne 
 
Dm7     Em7                F7    G7     C7 
 Get along Kid Charlemagne 
 
 

VERSE 3: 
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Now your patrons have all left you in the red 
Your low rent friends are dead 
This life can be very strange 
All those day-glo freaks who used to paint their face 
They've joined the human race, some things will never change 
Son you were mistaken 
You are obsolete, look at all the white men on the street 
 
 

CHORUS 
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INSTRUMENTAL 
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 E7/9+ A7   Dm7    F/C    B7   E7   Am    G6 
 
Fmaj7   Em7    Dm7 B7 Em7     D6     Cmaj7     Em7  D6/E 
 
Am     G6     F6/9     Bb13     F   G   Am  G6 
 
Dm7    Em7 Dm7     Em7     Fmaj7 Em7 Dm7 
 
C7/9+ 
 
 

VERSE 4: 
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Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail 
Those test tubes and the scales, just get it all out of here 
Is there gas in the car ? 
Yes there's gas in the car 
I think the people down the hall know who you are 
Careful what you carry 
Cause the man is wise 
You are still an outlaw in their eyes 
 
 

CHORUS 
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OUTTRO: 
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Fmaj7     Em7     Dm7     Cmaj7    Em7 Fmaj7    Em7    Dm7 
 
Cmaj7     Em7 Fmaj7    Em7     Dm7     Cmaj7    Em7 
 
...etc  - keep repeating 
 
 
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