Beautiful

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BEAUTIFUL

By Belle & Sebastian

>From the EP '3... 6... 9... Seconds of Light'

Transcribed by M. R. Waggner

Submitted by Thelonius

Intro

A C#m7 A C#m7 A G#m F#m E

A C#m7

She lay in bed all night watching the colors change

A C#m7

She lay in bed all night watching the morning change

A G#m

F#m E

She lay in bed all night watching the morning change into green and gold

A C#m7

The doctor told her years ago that she was ill

A C#m7

The doctor told her years ago to take a pill

A G#m F#

The doctor told her years ago that she'd go blind if she wasn't careful

C#m7 B

They let Lisa go blind

A G#

The world was at her feet and she was looking down

C#m7 B

They let Lisa go blind

A C#m7

But everyone she knew thought she was beautiful

E

Only slightly mental

C#m7

Beautiful

E

Only tempermental

Cm7

Beautiful

A C#m7

She thought it would be fun to try photograghy

A C#m7

She thought it would be fun to try pornography

A G#m

She thought it would be fun to try most anything

F#

She was tired of sleeping

C#m7 B A G#

They let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind

C#m7 B

They let Lisa go blind

She's looking like a queen

C#m7 A

But if you knew what's going on in her life

F#m B

There'd be a thousand barren mothers there to talk to her

C#m7 A

If you knew what's going on in her life

F#m B

There'd be two hundred troubled teenagers to sit with her

B

And talk to her

E D

If you knew what's going on in her life

A

What's going on in her life

C#

There would be a documentary on Radio 4

(Trumpet solo spot...)

G# E G# E G# E G# B E B C#m7 B C#m7 B C#m7 B

E B C#m7 B C#m7 B C#m7 B C#

A C#m7

She made herself a pair of orthopaedic shoes

A C#m7

She thought is was the answer to the fashion blues

A G#m

She made herself a pair of orthopaedic shoes

F#

But she walked with a limp

C#m7 B A G#

They let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind...

C#m7 B A G# repeats to the end

(for the little tidbit at the very end, just repeat the 1st chorus)

Belle & Sebastian fans would be well advised to browse Paul

Mitchell's appealing site 'Sinister' at

www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~mitchell/sinister/