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Frank Black and the Catholics
Song: Billy Radcliffe
Album: Pistolero
Tabbed by: Jason

Frank uses a capo on this song, but if you want the technical chord names,
here they are -Derek

Intro
Bb5 C5 C5 Bb5 C5 C5 Bb5 C5  G(7X)

or:
d--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5-- (which is easier with a capo on 1st fret)
a--1--3--3--1--3--3--1--3--   -derek
e--------------------------

Verse
Ab       Cm        Bb           F     Ab
   Billy Radcliffe didn't go to town
                             Eb            Bb    Ab
And when we looked up he was looking right down
         Cm          Bb             F     Ab
Catching blue in his eyes that were brown
      Cm        Ab     Cm     Ab
Billy Radcliffe

Repeat intro

Verse2
Ab       Cm        Bb           F      Ab
   Billy Radcliffe owned by the state
                             Eb       Bb    Ab    
From his first breath to the cemetary gate
           Cm        Bb      F      Ab
He was the first boy born in space
      Cm        Ab     Cm     Ab
Billy Radcliffe

Repeat intro
Cm
Billy Radcliffe very first one
Ab
He really had lived just a cursed son
F                                      Ab
A split in half man sang the cherubim
      Cm        Ab     Cm     Ab
Billy Radcliffe

Repeat intro

Chorus
Eb    Ab        F            Bb        Cm   Eb
Billy Radcliffe saw what the devil man saw
          Ab          F            Bb         Cm    Eb
A spot of blue in the black of the eye of the lord
       Ab        F       Bb                   Cm         Eb
Such a cruel love is the kind that has wrought, oh Billy
      Ab        Eb    Ab    Eb    Ab
Billy Radcliffe

Repeat intro
Ab      Cm    Bb          F    Ab
  Billy sadly didn't live long
                                Eb         Bb     
He had to stay there because he wasn't too strong
     Ab               Cm           Bb        F    Ab 
He's stepping out the door blowing up like a bomb
      Cm        Ab   Cm   Ab   
Billy Radcliffe
Cm
Billy Radcliffe very first one
Ab
Really a hatched man a light switch son
F
A split in half man sang the cherubim
Cm
Billy Radcliffe very first one
Ab
A split in half man sang the cherubim
F
I bet you cried when he died now didja, now didja?
Eb        Ab        F            Bb        Cm   Eb
Now Billy Radcliffe saw what the devil man saw
          Ab          F            Bb         Cm    Eb
A spot of blue in the black of the eye of the lord
      Ab        F            Bb        F
Billy Radcliffe saw what the devil had
           Bb            Cm
And I feel very bad for 
        Ab        Cm  Ab  Cm  Ab
William Radcliffe

Ending
a-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-\  Eb
e-1-4-4-1-4-4-1-4-/

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