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Song title:      The Drugs Don't Work
Original Album:	 Urban Hymns (The Verve)

Words and Music by Richard Ashcroft
Copyright © 1997 Hut Records
Published by Virgin Music Publishing Ltd

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:
Chords:
C      x32013    Em     022000    G5 3x00xx
Asus2  x02200    Fadd9  xx301x
Am     x02210    Cadd9  3x001x

[play: INTRO Figure]


INTRO Figure

  C
|---------3---------------3------|---------3---------------3------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------0---------------0--|-------------0---------------0--|
|-----2---------------2----------|-----2---------------2----------|
|-3---------------3--------------|-3---------------3--------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

  Asus2               Am                           Asus2
|---------0----------------------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------0-----------1--|---------1-------0--------------|
|-----2---------------2----------|-2-----------2-------2----------|
|-2-----------2-----------2------|-----2-------------------2---0--|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

  Em                               Fadd9           Cadd9
|-----------------0--------------|--------------------------------|
|---------------------0----------|---------1---------------1------|
|---------0----------------------|-------------0---------------0--|
|-----2-------------------2---0--|-----3---------------0----------|
|-------------2------------------|-0------------------------------|
|-0------------------------------|-----------------3--------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

  C                   G5           C
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------------------0--|--------------------------------|
|-----------------------------0--|-2------------------------------|
|-3________________--------------|-3------------------------------|
|---------------------3----------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|



VERSE:
Chords:
C         x32013    Em     022000
Gadd11/B  x20013    Fadd9  xx3213
Am        x02210    Gadd11 320013
Asus2     x02200

         C                         Gadd11/B    Am          Asus2 - Am
All this talk of getting old, it's getting  me down my love
                Em              Fadd9
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
     Gadd11   C
This time I'm comin' down


VERSE:
      C                                 Gadd11/B     Am          Asus2 - Am
And I hope you're thinking of me as you lay     down on your side
                    Em                       Fadd9
Now the drugs don't work, they just make you worse
      Gadd11               C         | Cadd9  C |
But I know   I'll see your face again


CHORUS:
Chords:
Em     022000    C      x32010
F      x33211    Cadd9  x3001x
Gadd11 320013

                    Em                       F
Now the drugs don't work, they just make you worse
      G                  C         | Cadd9  C |
But I know I'll see your face again


VERSE:
Chords:
C         x32013    Em     022000
Gadd11/B  x20013    F      x33211
Am        x02210    Gadd11 320013
Asus2     x02200    Cadd9  x3001x

       C                                  Gadd11/B
But I know I'm on a losing streak, 'cause I
            Am 
passed down my old street
                 Em                     F
And if you wanna show, then just let me know
         Gadd11       C        | Cadd9 C |
And I'll sing in your ear again


[repeat CHORUS]


BRIDGE:
Chords:
F   133211    Am x02210
Em  022000    G  320003

             F    Em           Am                G
'Cause baby, ooh,    if heaven calls, I'm coming too
              F     Em                 Am                   G
Just like you said,    if you leave my life, I'm better off dead


[repeat VERSE1]

[repeat CHORUS]

[repeat BRIDGE]


CHORUS:
Chords:
Em     022000    C      x32010
Fadd9  xx3213    Cadd9  x3001x
Gadd11 320013    G      320003

                 Em                     F
But if you wanna show, then just let me know
         Gadd11        C         Cadd9  C           
And I'll sing  in your ear again

                    Em                       F
Now the drugs don't work, they just make you worse
      G                  C         | Cadd9 C |
But I know I'll see your face again


OUTRO:
Chords:
C     x32010
Cadd9 x30010

C                                      | Cadd9 C |  
  Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
  Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
  Yeah, I know I'll see your face again, Whoah
  Yeah, I know I'll see your face again, Whoah

    C
I'm never coming down, no I'm never coming down
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more
Never coming down, no I'm never going down   
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more

[end on C]