Last Of The Famous International

Thanks to whoever posted Smiths/Morrissey chords. We need more!

Here are the chords to 'The Last of the Famous International

Playboys' by Morrissey:

Before you learn this song you are REQUIRED to know who the Krays are.

Twin brothers, gangsters in London in the swinging sixties. Very much

alive and very much in prison right now. (Maybe of them is dead

now.Not sure.) In any case, one of them just published a book last

year.

Great celebrity figures in their day - no anonymous underworld for

them! Known as popular casino proprietors, party hosts, rubbed elbows

with the rich and famous and were photographed with near-royalty. Yet

they were horribly violent, unpredictable and fearsome. One of them

was distinguished from the other by his serious mental disorders and

his taste for young men.

There was a movie about them a couple years ago. Haven't seen it.

section 1 is D and G repeated over and over

section 2 is G C A C

Dear hero imprisoned

with all the new crimes that you are perfecting

I can't help quoting you

for everything that you say rings true,

and now

in my cell

well, I followed you

and here's a list of who I slew

Ronnie Kray do you know my name?

Don't say you don't; please say you do

I am the last of the

famous international playboys

the last of the famous international playboys

and now in my cell

well, I loved you

and every man with a job to do

Reggie Kray do you know my name?

don't say you don't - please say you do

I am the last of the

famous international playboys

See, in our lifetimes those who kill

the news world hands them stardom

and these are the ways on which I was raised

These are the ways on which I was, which I was raised

I never

wanted to kill

I am not naturally evil

Such things I do, just to make myself more attractive to you

Have I failed?

The last of the famous international playboys...

Simple enough, innit?

Richard

karty@cs.washington.edu

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