People Just Want To Dream

Transpose
Year: 1987
Album: Crooked Mile

VERSE 1
 
E 
 
She’s a  
E 
big fat  
F# 
matron with turquoise  
A/B 
hair
 
She is  
E 
lunging for the  
F# 
black and red lounging  
A/B 
chair
 
She says “
B7 
Take it anyway you want but everyone de
A 
sires 
 
me
 
From the  
B7 
soles of my handmade shoes right up to my  
C#m 
hard-
E 
earned 
 
 
F# 
crown”
VERSE 2
 
She  
E 
nods at the  
F# 
architect on T.
A/B 
V.
 
Who says “
E 
People, 
 
 
F# 
people just want to  
A/B 
dream”
 
So  
B7 
tell it to the kids making whoopee with the tin-foil  
A 
dragon
 
Because  
B7 
soon they’ll have to go so make real sure they know that  
C#m 
mo
E 
ney 
 
 
F# 
is 
 
 
C#m 
eve
E 
ry
F# 
thing
CHORUS 1
 
D 
Don’t make the  
C 
gentry mean,  
G 
it’s for you they  
Am 
dream
D 
With their  
C 
ugly clothes and  
G 
carnage 
 
maga
Am 
zines
VERSE 3
 
The  
E 
High Street, it  
F# 
used to be such a  
A/B 
slum (Petrol queues and bomb scares and liberal confusion)
 
Until we  
E 
prised it a
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way from the welfare  
A/B 
scum (Marching piggy-wiggy and bovine retribution)
 
Oh  
B7 
take it any way you want, everything is  
A 
better
 
We  
B7 
mused to play around before too long we found that  
C#m 
mo
E 
ney 
 
 
F# 
is 
 
eve
E 
ry
F# 
thing
CHORUS 2
 
D 
Don’t make the  
C 
gentry mean,  
G 
it’s for you they  
Am 
dream
D 
In their  
C 
private homes their  
G 
hatred flows in  
Am 
streams
D 
People, 
 
 
C 
people just,  
G 
people want to  
Am 
dream
D 
Just look  
C 
at their graves  
G 
and you’ll see what I  
Am 
mean
OUTRO/FADE
 
E 
Let’s 
 
 
F# 
leave them to  
A/B 
dream
E 
Let’s 
 
 
F# 
leave them to (
A/B 
Got no lives)
E 
Let’s 
 
 
F# 
leave them to  
A/B 
dream
E 
Let’s 
 
 
F# 
leave them to  
A/B 
dream (And dream and dream and dream)
 
E 
 
F# 
 
A/B