Ian Hunter - Irene Wilde

      
 
 Taken from the live album Welcome to the Club. It's a piano piece but transfers to
 acoustic nicely.
 
 Intro/Pre-chord: G
 
      C             G            Am            Em   
 When I was just sixteen I stood waiting for a dream
    F                    G          C    F 
 At Barker Street Bus Station every night
        C               G           Am                Em   
 When I tried to get it on she just looked at me with scorn
    F                 G               C     F C 
 My courage turned to fear and I took flight
 
           Am                   F            G          C     
 For those looks they seemed to say you ain??t nothin' go away
                 Am           F          G                 C      
 You??re just some face in some crowd so I walked home and I vowed
           F  C   F         C F C F 
 I'm gonna be somebody someday
 
     C              G             Am           Em   
 Her name was Irene Wilde Oh such beauty for a child
          F              G             C   F 
 When she started dating boys I nearly died
        C                G            Am              Em  
 Well I could not barely stand seeing anyone hold her hand
   F                   G              C   F C 
 I thought I'd have to crawl away and hide
 
       Am              F          G            C      
 In my mother's Sunday room I??d compose so many tunes
                  Am          F             G                C  
 They was all the same just a frame for the name and just to say
 F C F C C bridge
 I'm gonna be somebody someday
 
 Am            F            G                 C   
 Wild was your name, I soon left that country town
           Am                    F        
 I??ve been around, I've seen some things,
               G                   C      
 I??ve seen some ups, I've seen some downs
 Am                 F            G                 C   
 Smile through your shock as you hear your name outloud
         Am          F      
 I??s that face in the crowd
          G                   C    
 I didn't dig it I'm much too proud
 
 C F C F C F 
       
 
      C             G            Am               Em   
 When I was just sixteen I stood waiting for that dream
    F                    G          C   F 
 At Barker street bus station non-affair
        C                 G          Am              Em 
 At the time it seemed so sad but it didn't turn out bad
        F                G                 C    F C 
 if she hadn't turned me down I'd still be there
 
        Am               F    
 Well I think most folks agree
          G                   C  
 A little put-down makes them see
               Am                   F   
 they aint the chain they're just a link
           G               C    
 and thats why she made me think
           F  C   F     F  C   F     F  C   F         C    F C F C 
 I'm gonna be somebody, be somebody, be somebody ?? someday
 
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