Tattoo Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G][D][A][G]
Me and my brother
were [D]talking to each other
About [A]what makes a [G]man [B]a man
Was it [G]brain or brawn
or the [D]month you were born
[A]We just could[G]n't understand
[B]Our old man didn't lik[E]e
our appear[B]ance,
said that only women [E]wear
[F#sus4]long hair[F#][F#sus4]
[F#]So me an[G]d my brother borrowed
[D]money from mother,
[A]we knew what [G]we had to do
[B]We wen[G]t downstairs
past [D]the barber and gymnasium
[A]We got [G]our arms tat[B]tooed
Welcome [F#sus4]to my life tatto[B]oed
I'm a man now [F#sus4]thanks to [B]you
I expect I'll regret you
But the skin graft [E]man won't get you
[F#sus4]To be ther[E]e when I die[F#sus4]
[F#][G][D]
[A][G][Dsus4]
[G]My dad beat me, cos [D]mine said mother
My [E]mother [A]actually liked it
and [G]beat my [B]brother
Cos [G]his tattoo was of a [D]lady in the nude
And my [A]mother thought
that was ex[G]tremely [B]rude
That rhyme had never been
used before at that time.
Welcome [F#sus4]to my life, Tattoo.[B]
We've a long time together,
[E]me and [B]you.
I expect I'll regret you,
[F#]but the [B]skin graft m[E]an won't get you.
[B]You'll [E]be there when [F#sus4]I die, Tatt[F#]oo.
[G][D][A][G][Dsus4]
[G]Now I'm older,
[D]I'm tattooed all over,
my [A]wife is [G]tattooed [B]too
[G]Rooty tooty too, rooty [D]tooty too too,
rooty [A]tooty too, tattooed [G]too
Bit [F#]like the end in a tummy this,
isn't it?
[B]To you
I've always had difficulty,
you know, finishing things really,
you know, I mean
I got to the end of Tommy
and I didn't know what to do with Tommy,
he'd been through all this terrible stuff
and, you know,
we all really identified with him
and, God,
what's he going to do
at the end of the story?
And I just didn't know what to do,
I sent him up this mountain. Go!
Up up you go.
At the end of Quadrifina,
this poor screwed up little kid,
you know, he can't get the girl,
he crashes his scooter.
You know, the guy he thinks is a great guy ends up, he's a
bellhop, you know, it's just,
and he goes to the sea, and it's flat.
No, nothing,
and it smells a bit funny, too.
In the distance,
there's somebody going,
So he gets a boat and he goes out
and he gets on the rock and then,
gets on the rock
and well then it's the end!
It kind of happens like that at the end of Tattoo,
you know, you get to the end
and you're thinking,
my wife is tattooed too
and yes, well a Rudy too,
[C#m]toodle toodle.[C#m]
I'm going to do collings,
give me the collings. time.