Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 12:27:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Glen Norman Pavan <senomar@UDel.Edu> artist: Sex Pistols title: Belsen Was a Gas album: The Great Rock and Roll Swindle tuning: standard There are two differing versions of this tune, the Sex Pistols version with Johnny Rotten and the one with Ronald Biggs. Here's both. F-G means slide up from the F to the G w/ Johnny Rotten intro: D C D Eb D C G x2

^DBelsen was a ^Cgas I he^Dard the other d^Ebay ^DIn the open gra^Cves where the j^Gews all lay ^DLife is f^Cun and I w^Dish you were h^Ebere ^DThey wrote on post^Ccards to th^Gose held dear

chorus (played twice) C G C G C G F-G F-G oh dear oh dear oh dear second verse Sergeant majors on the march Wash their bodies in the starch See them all die one by one Guess it's dead guess it's glad chorus (twice) so bad so bad so bad intro repeat first verse outro: ad lib chorus with Ronald Biggs: ok, this time for real Belsen was a gasser intro: D C Bb C D C G x2 verse

^DBelsen was a ^Cgas I he^Bbard the other^C day ^DIn the open gra^Cves where the jew^Gs all lay ^DLife is fu^Cn and I wis^Bbh you were ^Chere ^DThey wrote on^C postcards to tho^Gse held dear

chorus (same as other version) second verse Dentists search their teeth for gold Frisk the jews for bank notes rolled when they found out what they got Line them up and shoot the lot chorus kill a man be a man kill a man intro third verse Wonder what the jews would say If I told them where Boorman was today Would they start a vendetta you'd better ask Ernie Ledbetter chorus Ledbetter Ledbetter Ledbetter outro: ad lib chorus comments, corrections to senomar@bach.udel.edu -I'm here, I'm queer, I play 5-string bass

Sex Pistols - Belsen was a gas