Sex Pistols - Belsen Was A Gas

album: The Great Rock & Roll Swindle

INTRO/VERSE
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CHORUS
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B-C means slide up from the B to the C

w/ Johnny Rotten

intro: C G C Fis C G C x2
CBelsen was a Ggas I heCard the other dFisay
CIn the open graGves where the jCews all lay
CLife is fGun and I wCish you were hFisere
CThey wrote on postGcards to thCose held dear

chorus (played twice)
Goh dCear oGh deCar Goh deCar   [B-C]      [B-C]   

second verse
Sergeant majors on the march
Wash their bodies in the starch
See them all die one by one
Guess it's dead guess it's glad

chorus (twice)
so bad so bad so bad

intro

repeat first verse

outro: ad lib chorus


with Ronald Biggs:

ok, this time for real Belsen was a gasser


intro: C G Fb G C G C x2

verse
CBelsen was a Ggas I heFbard the otherG day
CIn the open graGves where the jewCs all lay
CLife is fuGn and I wisFbh you were Ghere
CThey wrote onG postcards to thoCse held dear

chorus (same as other version)

second verse
Dentists search their teeth for gold
Frisk the jews for bank notes rolled
when they found out what they got
Line them up and shoot the lot

chorus
kill a man be a man kill a man

intro

third verse
Wonder what the jews would say
If I told them where Boorman was today
Would they start a vendetta
you'd better ask Ernie Ledbetter

chorus
Ledbetter Ledbetter Ledbetter

outro: ad lib choru#