John Cale Tabs

Dead or Alive

The Cale Street bootleg version

C                           G/B                           F/A
Sooner or later she said she'd be my friend
C                          G/B                F/A
Honest and faithful 'till the very end
C                           G/B                          F/A
   Well, enough of that, she should've known better anyway
C                                                        G/B     F/A
   She turns and smiles, says goodbye in her inimical way


Happy to see her in the back of a magazine
Laughing and crying at everything she sees
Well, get on with it, straight on and porno bound
Leave me out of it, I'm not proud


Am                    G                                   F
   It would have taken her a long, long time
Am                             G                                  F
   Yes, it would have taken her a long, long time

Happy to see her in the back of a limousine
Lying there nude, sporting that stupid grin
Well, get on with it, he should've known better anyway
She turns and smiles, says goodbye, goodbye again

It would have taken her a long long time
Yes, it would have taken her a long long time


Em                                 Am
   And then a year from Monday
                     G                C
Everything I said came true
Em                                 Am
   That's when the D.A. called me
              G
He said dead or alive for you

They found her
Dead or alive
I want you dead or alive
I want you dead or alive, she said
I want you dead or alive
I want you dead or alive
Dead or alive, she said

© 1999- Hans Werksman