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Diamond Dogs
Sweet Thing
Candidate
Sweet Thing (Reprise)
Rebel Rebel
When You Rock 'n' Roll With Me
We Are The Dead
1984
Big Brother
Chant of the Every Circling Skeletal Family
Key
~ tremelo/trill
b bend
r return
h hammer
p pull off
(ghost note)
/ slide up
\ slide down
. kill note

Diamond Dogs 
Intro
(A bass) A    (A bass)  C        Eb  Bb  F    minor variations
|-----------------------------------------------13-------------|You can play 
|------------------------------------------10-13--13-10--------|the F at the
|--------------------------------8-8-----10----------10-10-X-X-|13th fret
|10---10-7---7-10---10-----------8-8-8-8-10-------------10-X-X-|(I can't reach
|10------7-----10-------10---10-(6)--8-8-(8)-------------------|on my guitar to
|-------(5)-------------8-----------(6)------------------------|see if it's better)

A
As they

A                        |                      |E                      |
pulled you out of the oxygen tent           you asked for the latest par ty 
crawlin down the alley on your hands & knees I'm sure your not protected for it's 

E                        |D                     |D                      |
ty              with your silicone hump & your 10 inch stump 
plain to see        the Diamond Dogs are poachers and they hide behind trees

A                             |                            |
Dressed like a priest you was  Todd Brownings freak you was
Hunt you the ground the will   Mannequins with kill appeal

E                        |                      |G                      |
Come on       I'll keep a friend serene          Come on        oh baby

G                        |A                     |                       |
 Come unto me              come on      well she's come been and gone

D                        |                         |
       Come out of the garden baby  

A                        |                         |
  You'll catch your death in the fog      Young girl..

B                        |D                        |
.....               they call them the Diamond Dogs...

A                        |                         |
.....                                     Young girl...

B                        |D                        |A      back to verse
.....               they call them the Diamond Dogs...

Fade out
E                        |                         |
                     call    them the Diamond Dogs...

A                        |                         |
......

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Sweet Thing 
Intro
 C              D/C 
|--------------|2--------------|
|1-------------|3--------------|
|0-------------|2--------0-5-0-|
|2-------------|---------------|
|3-------------|3--------------|
|--------------|---------------|
 It's safe in the city
 To love in a doorway

|C              |D              |Em               |D               |
To wrangle some screams from the door                  And isn't it

|C              |D/C              |C              |D/C             |
 me              putting pain.......in a stranger    like a portrait in 

|C          D          |Em               |C              |D/C              |
flesh  who trails on a  leash    will you see..............that I'm scared....

|C                 |D/C                 |C          D         |
.. and I'm lonely   So I'll break up my room and yawn and I'll

|Em          D        |Bm               |                       |
 run to the center......of things      where the knowing ones say

|Dm                |Am              |G            |              |
Boys                Boys     it's a sweet thing

|Dm                |Am              |F                   |G              |
Boys                Boys     it's a sweet thing sweet thing

|G                 |Dm                |Am/C              |G/B            |
             if you want it            boys        get it here thing

|G                 |Dm                |Am                 |
             'cause hope               boys        it's a 

|F                      |G                |               |
cheap thing cheap thing.....

Repeat above then outro leading into Candidate: 

|D           |F#m         |Bm          |A7/Bb         |

|D           |Cm/D        |D           |Cm/D          |

|D           |F#m         |Bm          |A7/Bb         |

|D           |Cm/D        |D           |Cm/D          |D         |D        |

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Candidate 
As the sax comes in
Repeat these chords the whole way through

|Dm                       |Am                        |G                     |G                     |
                                                                                I'll make you a deal
           like any other candidate         we'll pretend we're walking home cause your futures at stake My
set is amazing it even smells like a street there's a bar at the end where I meet you and your friend Someone scrawled on the wall I smell  etc 
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Sweet Thing (Reprise) 
      G                         G              
......jump in the river holding hands

|Dm            |Am            |F            |G            |G            |
                                                                  if you

|Dm           |Am/C           |G            |             |
want it        boys     get it here thing           'cause

|Dm           |Am             |F            |G            |G            |
hope           boys     is a cheap thing.......     

|C                |D/C           |C             |D/C            |
Is it nice in your snowstorm       freezing your brain

|C                      |D             |Em              |Bm               |
 Do you think that your  face  looks the same                  Well let it

|C              |D/C                 |C               |D/C                  |
be...............     It's all I ever wanted           It's a street with a 

|C         D             |Em             D          |G             |
deal and a taste It's got claws it's got me  It's got     you.......

|A/G            |G            |A/G           |G            |A            |
..................................

Outro

|Bb            |Bb           |F             |F             |x2

|Bb            |Bb           |C             |C             |

|D             |D            |E             |E             |

stay on E until the end

Note :- Another tab sent to me suggests the outro uses
Bbmaj13#11   Fmaj13  C6/9  D(add9) for the above chords

E (more or less, there are alot of #9's, dominant 7's, and
such in the bass. E5 would be the safest bet here).

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Rebel Rebel
 That riff
 D             E        use 3rd finger to pull off while holding
|----0------------|-------------------|the other 2 strings
|----5---3---2-0.-|0-----0-2p0--------|
|-------(2)--2-1.-|1-----------1------|
|--------------2.-|2-------------2-0-let ring
|-----------------|hold---------------|
|-----------------|-------------------|

D                           E 
  You've got your mother    in a whirl
  She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl
  Hey babe                your hairs alright
  Hey babe                let's go out tonight
  You like   me    and     I like it all
  We like dancing  and    we look divine
  You love bands   when they play it hard
  You want more   and    you  want it fast

A                           D                 Bm                     E
  They put you down    they  say I'm wrong       You tacky thing you put them on

D                           E 
   Rebel   Rebel       you've  torn you're dress
   Rebel   Rebel       you're face is a mess
   Rebel   Rebel       how could they know?
                           
D (Hold chord)                   E (hold chord open D note & back to riff)
   Hot tramp                I    love you so              
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When You Rock n Roll With Me

Intro
|C       Em       |F      C      |C       Em      |F      C      |
                                                              You
|G7              C   G   C   |C                       |
always were the one that knew                     they
sold us for the likes of you                        I

|A                           |Dm                      |
 always wanted new    sur....round....ings

|G7                          |C           D7/A         |Dm       G7       |
    a room to rent  while the lizards lay crying in the heat

|C            D7/A           |Dm7          G6          |E              E/D          |
 trying to remember      who    to meet                 I would take a foxy kind of

|Am           Am/G           |Dsus4        D           |Dm7/G                       |
stand.............     while 10s of 1000s found me in demand

|C             Em            |F           C            |
      When you rock   'n'     roll   with me....
 There's no one else   I'd    rather      be
      Nobody  here     can    do it for   me     I'm in

|Dsus4        D              |G                        |
 tears.........  again             when you rock 'n'

|C             Em            |F           C            |
       roll.........................with me...
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We Are The Dead
(Most of these chords are 3 note chords played on the keyboard)
Intro
 Gm      Bb    F  F
|----------------|----------------|
|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1-|----------------|
|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-|----------------|
|5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|X2

|Gm               Bb        F   |                        |
 Something kind of hit me today     I looked at you and   

|Bb\D             D             |Eb                  Bb\D|
 wondered if you saw things my way 

|F                D/F#          |Gm         Gm/F          |
 People will hold us to blame             it hit me today...

|Eb               C/E           |F                        |
.....          it hit me today.............          We're

|Gm               Bb        F   |                        |
   taking it hard all the time       why don't we pass it 

|Bb\D             D             |Eb                  Bb\D|
 by      just reply      you've  changed your mind   We're

|F                D/F#          |Gm         Bb/F          |
 fighting with the eyes of the blind        taking it hard 

|Eb               C/E           |F          F/Eb          |Dm7         Bb        |
...               taking it hard.... Yet now................                   we

 Fm               Gb                              Ab             Gm
|1----------------2--------------|----------------|4---------------3---------------|
|1----------------2--------------|------------3---|4---------------3---------------|
|1----------------3--------------|----0---2-------|5---------------3---------------|
|--------------------------------|3---------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------|--------------------------------|
 feel that we are paper           choking on you    nightly.  They tell me Son we
 want you. Be illusive but don't  walk far for were breaking in the new boys    de-
cieve your next of kin for you're dancing where the dogs decay    defecating
ecstasy You're just an ally of the legion   lo-cat-er for the virgin king, but I
love you in your fuckme pumps & your nimble dress that trails oh dress yourself my
urchin one for I hear them on the rails, because of all we've seen because of 

|Fm              Gb               |D          C/E          |D           C/E        |         
 all we've said         we are the dead         we are the dead

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1984
|Dm                 Em               |F                Dm               |
 Someday they won't let you           now you must agree            the
 times they are a telling     and the changing isn't free         You've
 read it in the    tea leaves and the tracks are on TeeVee           be-

|Bb                 C                |Dm                                |
 ware           the savage            jaw.........                   of
 nine      teen     eighty            four                          Come

|Am                Bb                |Eb               Ab               | 
 see        come see             re- member            me            We

|Gb                                  |Ebsus4           Eb               |
 played  out  an  all  night          movie         role             You

|Ab                                  |Gb                                |
said it would last             but I  guess we enrolled               in

|Bbm                                 |F                                 |
 nine  teen    eighty      four........

|Db                                  |Bbm/G  
 nine  teen    eighty      four........
 
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Big Brother

|Bm               F#m       A  |                    |
   Don't talk of dust   and roses
   Or should we  powder our noses?

|A                G            |                    |
   Don't live for last years capers          give me

|D                              |E                  |
steel, give me steel,   give me  pulsars unreal

Next verse as above

|D                G            |D          G        |
 Please saviour   saviour  show us   

|D                G            |F#                  |
 hear   me   I'm  graphically yours

|A                             |Bm         G        |
               Someone to claim... us   someone to fol-
low            someone to shame... us   some brave apo-
lo             someone to fool.... us   someone like 

|A                          E  |                 D  |B   A           | 
 you      We want you Big  Brother      Big Brother                I     

(Bm  A   G   Bm  A   G  Bm   A   G   E    G    E    G   instrumental chords)
                                                                
|G                    Em                   |C                       G         |
know you think you're awful square but you made everyone and you've been everywhere

|C                     G              |D              |A      
 Lord I'd think you'd overdose if you knew whats going down    Someone to...

(Leading into Chant)
A                   E
we want you big brother
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Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family

Strum chords (|--- = 1 beat) Alternate 2/4 then 3/4 time 
|A---A---|E-----C-----|A---A---D---|E-----D-----|
 1   2    1 & 2 & 3 & 
|A---A---|E-----C-----|A---A---D---|D-----G-----| 

|E---E---D---|G-----D-----|A---A---|E-----D-----|A---A---|E-----C-----|
Brother                    oo  oo               Shake it up (x2)

|A---A---D---|E-----D-----|A---A---|E-----C-----|A---A---D---|D------G-----|
                          Move it up (x2)