Chords for "Rats"

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:46:13 -0300
From: Pablo Alonso


Chords for "Rats" 
Written by: Dave Davies 
Published by: Hill & Range Songs, Inc. - BMI 

Old good power chords on Dave's riffs 

E   AA-G-F#-E-D-EE (x2) DD-C#-D-C#-D-EE (x2) E 
    (from the 12th fret) 

      E                             G 
I was lost just wandering round downtown 
                        A 
Many people pushing me around 
      C           D             AA-G-F#-E-D-EE 
Hate spreads just like infection 
      E                          G 
Those rats jumping on and off my back 
                          A 
Fat black rats holding me down 
      C       D 
I see rats in every direction 
AA      G  F#    E    D EE 
No time to catch your breath 
AA    G     F#   E     D EE 
Crazy people lost their  heads 
DD         C#    D  C# D EE    DD     C# D    C# D     E 
Masses trampling on my   feet, inconside-rate in their heat   drum fill 

same sequence 

Those rats breeding angriness and spite 
Never have done anything right for people like you and me 
Walk over all the people you can't see 
If they die there's more bread for me 
Like snakes crawling through the grass 

verse stop for 4 bars, last 2 beats of the 4th bar, drum fills 

No time to catch your breath 
Crazy people lost their heads 
Masses trampling on my feet, inconsiderate in their heat 

starting from the fourth line of the sequence: 

Those rats breeding angriness and spite 
Never have done anything right for people like you and me 
See that face man look at me, he's much too selfish to see 
Once he was warm and was kind 
Now all he has got is a pinstripe mind 
See that face man look at me, he's much too selfish to see 
Once he was warm and was kind 
Now all he has got is a pinstripe mind 

Outro: the riffs like intro 

The last chord on the Hammond may be a minor To be played on guitar,
play a
Em on the 7th fret without the first string. 
This minor chord also is also noticeable on another times when the
second
riff is played 

To make the lead guitar parts when there's no riffs, use the Em
pentatonic
scale 


From "Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround part one", 1970 
Transcripted by Pablo Alonso