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Song title:       Alcohol
Original Album:   Muswell Hillbillies
Other Album:      Everybody's In Showbiz

Words and Music by Raymond Douglas Davies
Copyright © 1971 Davray Music Limited
Published by Davray Music Publishing Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
This was a primordial tab that I transcribed from "Everybody's In Show-Biz",
one disc of which was live, hence the extended intro over 32 bars.
Of course, you may play the intro for as long, or as short, as you wish.
Or not at all.

Bear in mind that a lot can be different in a live version of a Kinks' song:
lyrics, phrasing, arrangement, key. 


INTRO:
Notes:
On "Muswell Hillbillies", the intro is Am - G; then Am - F.

Chords:
Am x02210
E  022100
F  x33211

[play: Am - E]  [x 16]

[play: Am - F]  [x 16] 


VERSE1:
Notes:
The first line of the studio version is the one I have in brackets.

Chords:
Am x02210
E  022100

         Am
Here's a sad and woeful story about a middle-class executive
(Here's a story about a sinner, he used to be a winner)
                                       E
Who enjoyed a life of prominence and position.
But the pressures at the office and his socialite engagements, 
                                   Am
And his selfish wife's fanatical ambition,


VERSE2:
Notes:
Again, there are differences between the live version and the studio album
version. For example, I have E* instead of standard E on "Army" because, live,
Ray took the vocal higher at that point.
On "indecision", it stays on Dm on the studio album version. 


Chords:
A  x02220    E7 020130
Dm xx0231    E* xx0454
Am x02210

   A
It turned him to the booze, and he got mixed up with a floosie
                                Dm    A7  Dm
And she led him to a life of indecision. 
            Am
The floosie made him spend his dole, she left him lying on Skid Row 
                         E7     E*   Am      E7 Am
A drunken lag at some Salvation Army Mission. 

E7 (arpeggio)
   It's such a shame.


CHORUS1:
Chords:
A7     x02210    C    x32010    Am x02210
A7sus4 xx2233    C/B  x22010
Dm     xx0231    Dm9  x0323x
G      320033    E7   020130

A7        A7sus4  Dm
Oh, demon alco  - hol,
G                C       C/B
  Sad memories I can't recall,
Am          Dm9 Dm
Who thought I 	would say, 
E7             Am
  Damn it all, blow it all,


CHORUS2: 
A7        A7sus4  Dm
Oh, demon alco  - hol,  
G            C       C/B
  Memories I can't recall, 
Am          Dm9            E7             Am   E7   Am
Who thought I would fall a slave to demon al - co - hol. 


[repeat CHORUS2: 1st line w/ chords only; then continue:]

G              C        C/B
Sad memories I can't  recall,     
Am          Dm9            E7             Am E7 Am
Who thought I would fall a slave to demon al-co-hol.


[Instrumental]


VERSE3:
Chords:
Am x02210
E  022100

Am
Barley wine, pink gin, he'll drink anything, 
      E
Port, Pernod or tequila, 
Rum, scotch, vodka on the rocks, 
                                Am
As long as all his troubles disappeared. 


VERSE4:
Chords:
A  x02220    E7 020130
Dm xx0231    E* xx0454
Am x02210

       A
But he messed up his life when he beat up his wife, 
                                         Dm
And the floosie's gone and found another sucker 
            Am
She's gonna turn him on to drink 
She's gonna lead him to the brink 
And when his money's gone, 
       E7               Am
She'll leave him in the gutter, 

E7
  It's such a shame... 


[repeat CHORUS1]

[repeat CHORUS2]

[repeat CHORUS2: 1st line w/ chords only; then continue:]

G              C        C/B
Sad memories I can't  recall,     
Am          Dm9            E7             Am E7 Am
Who thought I would fall a slave to demon al-co-hol.