Chords for Ian Dury and The Blockheads - I Want To Be Straight [Official Video]

_ _ _ _ _ _ I'm Charlie, you know.
_ _ [G] I'm Norman, pleased to [D] meet you.
_ _ [E] _ _ I'm Mickey.
[A] Hello.
_ _ _ [E] _ _
Welcome.
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ I'm Joe.
How [A] you doing?
How are you?
_ _ [E] My name [A] is Larry.
_ _ [E] _ _ _
[A] And I'm Ian.
_ [E] And? _ _
_ [A] Guess what?
[E] I'm!
I'm going to be straightened.
I [A] want to be straightened.
_ _ [E] I've been taking drugs, [A] just saying I'd like to.
I [E] want to come far.
I [A] want to come home.
I want to be safe and I want to be snug and I [B] want to do wrong.
I [E] want to be straightened.
I [A] want to be straightened.
I [E] want to create a place of my own in the [A] welfare state.
It's [E] going to be good.
But [A] it's going to need time.
It might be a wrench that's leading the sense, you're [B] leading the eye.
I [E] want to be straightened.
I [A] want to be straightened.
Come [E] out of the cold and do what I'm told and [A] don't be me.
_ _ [E] I want to give, I want to give, I [A] want to give my consent.
I'm learning to hate all the things that was right when I [B] used to be.
[G#m] Wait!
I'll be the one to start [A] it.
_ _ _ [C#m] Take me to the grave.
[A] You and I are going to need to ease it [C#m] now.
We're going to [A] need it.
_ [C#m] Watch out.
I'm only just a boy.
_ _ [A] Wait! _
_ _ _ Wait!
[Em] _ _
[E] Wait!
Wait!
Wait!
[A] _ _ _
_ Wait!
[G] Wait!
[B] Wait!
[Dm] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [E] _ I [F#m] want to be strong.
[Em] _ I'm sick of crying, of taking drugs and staying up late.
[E] I know that you're right.
I [A] know I was wrong.
So [E] thank you very much.
You've been running [A] on me, running along.
I [E] want to be straightened!
I [A] want to be straightened.
I [E] want to be straightened.
I [A] want to be straightened.
I [E] want to be straightened.
I [A] want to be straightened!
I [E] want to be straightened.
I want to be straightened.
I want to be straightened.
I [A] want to be straightened.
[Em] I want to be straightened.
I [A] want to be straightened.
I [E] want to be straightened.
I [A] want to be straightened.
I want to be straightened.
I [E] want to be straightened. _
[A] _ I want to be straightened.
I want to be straightened.
I [A] want to be straightened.
I want [E] to be straightened.
I [A] want to be straightened.
I want to be straightened.
I want [E] to be straightened.
I want [A] to be straightened.
I want to be straightened.
I want [E] to be straightened.
I want [A] to be straightened.
I [E] want to be straightened.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [A] I want to be straightened.
[E] I want to be straightened.
_ [A] I want to be straightened.
[E] I want to be straightened.
I want [A] to be straightened.
[G] _ _ _ _