From: "Kitch" <rumpole@mortimer.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:38:43 GMT

                  "Every Picture Tells A Story"

                            Rod Stewart

                  Written by Rod Stewart & Ron Wood

[Acoustic Intro]

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                     [12 String intro, drop-D tuning]

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[intro]
[chord held]


[Band in on first note]                    *D are 2 beat measures.
                                                    All other measures are
4/4
                                                    4 measures per line.
                                                    Some measures are
2-chord.

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 Spent some time feeling inferior,                  standing in front of

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my mirror.                                     Combed my hair in a thousand

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    ways,           but I came out looking just the same.

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Daddy said, "Son, you better see the world,             I wouldn't blame you

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if you wanted to leave.                    But remember one thing, don't
lose

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your head           to a womand that't spend your bread."    So I got out.

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                          Paris was a place you could hide away,

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if you felt you didn't fit in.                         French police wouldn't

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     give me no peace            They claimed I was a nasty person.

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                        Down along the Left Bank, minding my own,

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was knocked down by a human stampede.                    Got arrested for

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inciting a peaceful riot         when all I wanted was a cup of tea.  I was

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accused!  I moved on....

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     Down in Rome I wasn't getting enough            of the things that keeps

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a young man alive                               My Body stunk, but I kept my

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     funk          at a time when I was right out of luck.

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     Getting desperate!  Indeed I was                 looking like a tourist

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  attraction.                                Oh, my dear, I better get out
of

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     here            for the Vatican don't give me no sanction.       I wasn'

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ready for that - no, no!                                   I moved right out

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east, yeah..........                                 On the Peking ferry I wa

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feeling merry....                 sailing on my way back here.

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                        I fell in love with a slit-eyed lady

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     by the light of an eastern moon.                     Shanghai Lil never

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      used the pill              She claimed that it just ain't natural.

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                         She took me on deck and bit my neck

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     Oh, people, I was glad I found her!     Oh, yeah, I was glad I found her

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                                             I firmly believe that I

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                       didn't need anyone but me.

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     I sincerely thought I was so complete              Look how wrong you

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    can be.                                  The women I've known, I wouldn't

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let tie my shoe        They wouldn't give you the time of day.

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     But the slit-eyed lady knocked me off my feet,     God I was glad I

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     found her.                               And if they had the words I

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could tell to you     to help you on the way down the road

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     I couldn't quote you no Dickens, Shelley, or Keats,    cuz it's all been

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     said before.                             Make the best out of the bad,

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just laugh it off.....    You didn't have to come here anyway.    So, remembe

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    remember,     every picture tells a story don't it...         [repeat

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     through outro......]

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