Kid Charlemagne Chords by Steely Dan

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[A] _ [Am] While the music played you [G] were bike and the like
[C] Those San Francisco nights were [D] the best in town
_ [Am] Just by chance you crossed [G] the diamond with the pearl
[C] You turned it on the world, [Bb] you [Ab] turned the world [G]
around
_ Did you feel [Am] like Jesus?
[Em]
Did you [F] [Em] realize
[Dm] That you [Em] were a champion in their eyes?
[C] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] [Am] On the hill the stuff [Em] was laced with kerosene
[C] But yours was kitchen clean
[Gm] Everyone stopped to stare at you, [Ab] technical or [Am] motorboat
[Dm] Every [Am] airframe had [Em] your number on the wall
You [Dm] must have had it [Gm] all
But [Ab] early on in [G] there and you thought alone
Could you live [Am] forever?
[Em]
Could you [F] see the day?
[Dm] Could you [Em] feel your whole world [C] fall [Em] apart and [Am] fade away?
[G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Now _ [F] _ _ [G]
your [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ patrons [G] have all [Em] left you in the red
[Dm] Your low rent friends are dead
This life can [Ab] be very [D] strange
_ [Am] [B] All those [Am] Negro [Em] freaks who used to paint the face
[F] They joined the union [C] race
[D] Some things will never [G] change
_ [C] [G] Son, you are in [C] Vegas
[Em]
You [F] are obsolete
[G] _ [Dm] Look at all [Em] the white [C] men on the [Am] streets
[Em] Get it on, [Dm] [Em] get it on, [C] get your name
[Em] Get it on, [F] get your name
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_ [Cm] _ _ [C] Hmm?
Hmm?
[Am] Clean this mess up [G] else we'll all end up in jail
[F] Just get through that scale
Just get it [Ab] all out of here
[Am] Is there gas in the [Em] car?
Is there gas in the [Cm] car? _ _
[Ab] I think the people [G] down the [D] hall know [F] who you [G] are
Careful what [Am] you carry
[G] Doesn't [F] matter [Em] why
[Dm]
You are [Em] still an outlaw in their [D] [C] heart
[F] Get [G] it on, _ [C] [G] get it on, get your name
[Dm] Get [G] it on, [F] get your name
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