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Song title:       Sitting In My Hotel
Original Album:	  Everybody's In Showbiz

Words and Music by Raymond Douglas Davies
Copyright © 1972 Davray Music Limited
Published by Davray Music Publishing Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Capo on 5 if you want to play along with Ray and the boys.
Chords are relative to capo. Timing is 4/4.


VERSE1:
Chords:
C   x32010    G   320003
Am  x02210    F   x33211
C7  x32310    Dm7 xx0211


     | C                                | Am                               | C7                                  | G
If my  friends could see me now, driving  round just like a film star, in a  chauffeur-driven jam-jar, they would  laugh.

| F                   G               | C          G
    They would all be saying that it’s  not really me.

| F                   G             | C         G
    They would all be asking who I’m  trying to be.


     | C                                | Am                             | C7                               F
If my  friends could see me now, looking  out my hotel window, dressed in  satin strides and two-tone daisy-roots.

| F                   C            | Dm7             C
  If my friends could see me now, I  know they would smile.




CHORUS1:
Chords:
C  x32010    F   x33211
G  320003    Dm  xx3231
Am x02210    E7  020130
C7 x32310    Dm7 xx0211


| C                G           Am              C7              | F      Dm 
  Sitting in my ho-tel, hiding from the dramas of this great big world.

| Am            E7   | Am             C7      | F  C | Dm7 C |
  Seven storeys high,  looking at the world go  by_________y.

| C                   G                       | Am              C7           | F    Dm |
  Sitting in my hotel room, thinking ‘bout the  countryside and sunny days in  June

| Am                 E7    | Am            C7   | F    C | Dm7 C 
  Trying to hide the gloom,  sitting in my hotel  room.




VERSE2:
Chords:
C   x32010    G   320003
Am  x02210    F   x33211
C7  x32310    Dm7 xx0211


     | C                                 | Am                        | C7                                  G
If my  friends could see me now, dressing  up in my bow-tie, prancing  round the room like some outrageous poof.

| F            G               | C          G
    They would tell me that I’m  just being used.

| F            G              | C         G
    They would ask me what I’m  trying to prove.


          | C                           | Am                                  | C7                               | F
They would  see me in my hotel, watching  late shows ‘til the morning, writing  songs for old-time vaudeville re - vues.

| F                    C               | Dm7         C
  All my friends would ask me what it’s  all leading to.




CHORUS2:
Chords:
C  x32010    F   x33211
G  320003    Dm  xx3231
Am x02210    E7  020130
C7 x32310    Dm7 xx0211


| C                G                       | Am            C7           | F       Dm
  Sitting in my ho-tel, looking through the  window at the people in the  street.

| Am            E7   | Am             C7      | F  C | Dm7 C |
  Seven storeys high,  looking at the world go  by_________y.

| Am               E7  | Am             C7        | F     C | Dm7 C |
  Sitting in my ho-tel,  looking at the world out - side. 



ENDING:
Chords:
C   x32010    G   320003
Am  x02210    Dm7 xx0211
C7  x32310    F   x33211


     | C                                   | Am
If my  friends could see me now, they would  try to understand me,

          | C7                             | F
They would  ask what on earth I’m trying to  prove.

| F                    C               | Dm7         C
  All my friends would ask me what it’s  all leading to.