Chords for QUIET LIFE - RAY DAVIES (From "ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS") (1986) (HD)

_ If you could see my weirdo family, you'd never have to ask [Bb] why I left [Am] home.
Poor dad.
[Gm] Sweetest bloke you'd ever want to meet, [F] locked up with his pre-war [G] photo album and his sad [C] memories.
_ [D] Mum trying to keep her looks, [C] always carrying on with the lodgers.
[F] _ [Gbm] Half-brother Vern.
[F] Born middle-aged, thick as two bricks, and you wouldn't even want to imagine what he gets up [Dm] to.
If this is adult [F] life, I think I'll stay an absolute beginner forever.
_ Something's happening but I'm just gonna turn a blind eye.
[Eb] _ _ [C] _ [F] If I see no evil, I ask no questions and I [Bb] hear no lies.
[Eb] _ _ [C] Get [Dm] things down to the kitchen, I'll wash them up.
Can't communicate [A] with minds that are [Dm] small.
With some people [G] it's like _ talking [G] to _ [F] the wall.
And [Gm] the fellow [Am] who walks [Gm] away, _ [F] _ [Gm] lives to battle [Am]
another [Gm] day.
[F] _ And I've [Bb] really got no appetite _ [Am] for a [Gm] fight, not [C] _ [F] tonight.
Hey!
_ [Gm] _
[Am] What the hell's [Gm] going on in there?
[F] Coming, ma'am.
[Gm] All I want is [Am] a [Gm] quiet life.
[F] _ [Gm] Anything for [Am] a [Gm] quiet [F] life. Coming, baby.
No ambition [Bb] to rock the boat, [Am] when I can [Gm] just stay _ _ [F] afloat.
Be [D] content with a [D] quiet life.
_ [F] _ [D] All I want is [Gm] a quiet life.
[C] _ _ [F] _ [Gbm] Anything for [Gm] a [C] quiet life.
[F] Here, wash these.
You're so evil, that's not good.
[Dm] Speak no evil [F] at all.
You naughty boy. _ _
Confidentially [B] between these [Bb] walls, I'm on top of it [F] [E] all.
_ _ [Dm] I'd rather have them [A] think I'm deaf, dumb and [Dm] blind.
An aggravation [G] every time I [Dm] speak.
[G] _ [F] My mind [Gm] keeps storming [Am] and [Gm] a quiet life.
[F] _ [Gm] Anything [Am] for a quiet life.
What are you doing [F] in here anyway?
[Gm] Get off!
_ [Am] _ _
[Bb] _ [F] Hey, T.
Oh.
_ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [Am] T [Gm].T.?
[C] _ _ [F] _ I could [Bb] easily blow my top.
Oh, okay.
[Am] Start a row, [Gm] but why [G] start now?
[F] _ [Gbm] You.
_ [Gm] _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
[C] _ [F] It's too late, now, quick.
Give your daddy [Gm] a [C] quiet life.
You can't [F] behave.
Give your mama [Gm] a quiet _ [F] life.
_ [D] Anything for a [C] quiet life.
[F] _ Oh, that telly's [Bb] on the blink.
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
[C] Come [F] clear.
_ [D] _ [Gm] Get on the telly, [C] stator.
Get that [F] bloody thing off.
[D] _ _ [Gm] _
[C] Hey, what's going [F] on?
_ Come on [Gm] here, pretty babies.
[Bb] _ _ [A] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [F] _ [D] Give your daddy [Gm] a [E] quiet life.
[Am] _ Give your mama [Bb] a [Db] quiet [F] life.
_ Anything [Gm] for a _
[C] _ _ [F] _ quiet life.
Confidentially between these walls, _ I'm on top of [Bb] it all. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _