Chords for "Over The Edge"

Date: January, 21, 2000 5:44 PM
From: Pablo Alonso


"Over The Edge"
Written by: R.D. Davies
Published by: Davray Music Ltd., 1991

This a transcription based on The Kinks' 93 performance at "Later...with
Jools Holland" TV show. It is more symphatethic with Ray's guitar part than
Dave, who can play, for exapmle, a F instead an A/F.

Sequence A (s.A): ||A A/G | A/F# A/F||
Sequence E  (s.E): ||E E7 | E/C# E/C||
Sequence D (s.D): ||D D/C | D/B D/A#||

Intro:       keyboards arranged for guitar
A
1-------3-2-5-4-7-
2---5-3------------
3-2----------------

then

Riff:
A           A           G D
55-----5------55-
---5-7----5-7----
------------------       two times; on the second the first note is played
three times


s.A
Everybody is a victim of society
Comedy, tragedy, vaudeville and variety
s.E
Pantomime players in the grand tradition
s.A
Winners and losers till the intermission

Riff (just the first part)

s.A
Girl, I know the world's a stage
That's what the poet said
But I think our weird relationship
Is way above my head
s.E
I'll be your Casanova whipping by
If that's what you desire
       s.A
But once I start performing
I can't easily retire

s.D
I'll swing on a trapeze
I'll jump through hoops
And I'll eat fire
Be a human cannon ball
And walk on the high wire
s.A
Put on make-up, wear a wig
I'll be your tragic clown
But once you've got me up there
I can't easily come down

s.D
Don't drive me over the edge of it
Can't you see I've got mixed-up emotions
Joined the crowd just to be part of it
D/A#
That was the start of it
A          G     D
Oh,  I'm over the edge
A
(Don't drive me over the edge of it)
A         G     D   A      A/G A/F# A/F (or something like that)
Oh, I'm over the edge

s.D
The world is turning upside-down
Civilization's dead, over the edge
Economic turmoil, now the world is in the red
s.A
Democracy's a shadow of its former glory
Law and orders broken-down
End of story

Riff

A
My next door neighbour's totally snapped
He's gone over the edge
He's putting up barbed wire barricades
Around the garden hedge
s.E
And planting land mines on the lawn
He's gone barmy
s.A
According to his wife, he's formed a secret army
s.D
Ever since he got laid off
Something inside snapped
His wife says he's gone 'round the twist
Now there's no turning back
s.A
All night he waits in the garden shed
For the enemy to attack
A suburban vigilante
Dressed up in a union jack
He's over the edge, oh, over the edge

||A|A GD||
A
Don't drive me over the edge of it
       G     D
Oh, over the edge
s.D
Woman, you are gonna drive me
Totally over the edge
Is it yeas or is it no
Are you gonna take the pledge
s.A
The pressure of society are getting to your brain
And making you to act weird
And put me under all this strain
s.D
But don't drive me over the edge of it
Can't you see I've got mixed-up emotions
Joined the crowd, just to be part of it
D/A#
That was the start of it
||A|A G D||
A
Don't drive me over the edge of it
A    G     D   A
Oh, over the edge of it

s.D
Everybody is a victim of society
Comedy, tragedy
Vaudeville, variety
s.A
Pantomime players in the grand tradition
Forced into roles that leave them totally driven

Outro:
Intro,
then
e-55----------------
B--------5--7-------
   Right over the edge A


Transcripted by Pablo Alonso



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