Paul Heaton

Mermaids And Slaves

Paul Heaton


Tom: G

G    G    G   G
G    Am   D   G
G    Am   D   G

[Verse 1]
G                   Am
Baby lets drink and drive
D                   G
Baby lets drink and drive
G                           Am
Drink ‘til the conversation turns pink
    D                  G
And drive to the other side

Em                  G
Baby let’s look and learn
Em                  G
Baby let’s look and learn
Em                  G
Look ‘til a certain feeling takes hook
D                           G
And learn when the retina's burned

[Pre-Chorus 1]
G                              C                G                    D
Let’s fool and coerce that the singer of verse, died of insufferable pain
      G                      C                   G                    D
Let’s fu-el the dream, every Buckley or Dean was genius, misjudged or insane

[Chorus]
                   D                   G
Let’s drive over a cliff, and maybe or if
     D                                              G
The ‘maybe or if’ that’s cursed us the whole of our days
                 D                      G
Let’s put out to sea, poor you and poor me,
     D                                                      G
Poor you and poor me on the rocks that crushed mermaids and slaves

[Verse 2]
G                   Am
Baby let’s duck and dive
D                   G
Baby let’s duck and dive
G                           Am
Duck ‘til a major change in our luck
D                      G
And dive if we want to survive

Em                 G
Baby let’s hit and run
Em                 G
Baby let’s hit and run
Em                   G
Hit ‘til you see the split in the lip
    D                        G
And run like the wind to the sun

[Pre-Chorus 2]
G                           C                   G                        D
Let’s rap up the notion and sell it as potion ingredients, a good way to die
     G                  C                   G                       D
Take tragic mistake and crash into lake and sell it to folk passing by

[Chorus]
                   D                   G
Let’s drive over a cliff, and maybe or if
     D                                              G
The ‘maybe or if’ that’s cursed us the whole of our days
                 D                      G
Let’s put out to sea, poor you and poor me,
     D                                                      G
Poor you and poor me on the rocks that crushed mermaids and slaves

[Instrumental]
G   Am   D    G
G   Am   D    G
Em  G    Em  G
Em  G    D

[Chorus]
                   D                   G
Let’s drive over a cliff, and maybe or if
     D                                              G
The ‘maybe or if’ that’s cursed us the whole of our days
                 D                      G
Let’s put out to sea, poor you and poor me,
     D                                                      G
Poor you and poor me on the rocks that crushed mermaids and slaves