Pros & Cons Album by Waters Roger

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Album: Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking

Author: By Roger Waters

Songs: All songs

Format: Text

Transcribed and submitted by Andrey Jiansky

I have attached a text file with all the transcribed songs from that album.

Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking

Author: Roger Waters

Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad

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4.30 AM (Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad)

The chords over the spoken words:

C F C F C Dm Em G G+ Am

Apparently they were travelling abroad

And they picked up some hitchhikers...drill

Wake up you're dreaming...what...you're dreaming

We were moving away from the border

Uh what border?

Have a nice day...uh...have a nice day

G C Am

We were moving away from the border

C AmLooking for somewhere to sleep

G C Am

The two of us sharing the driving

G C Am

Two hitchhikers slumped in the back seat

Hello

G C Am

I sneaked a quick look in the mirror

She gave me a smile

G C Am

I said "Is anyone hungry?

G C Am

Should we stop for a while?"C Am Am

So we pulled off into a layby

G C Am

Her dress blew up over her head

C Am

I said "Would you like to come with me?"

G C Am

She said something foreign under her breath

F C

And the sun shone down on her lovely young limbs

F C

I thought to myself she's much too good for him

F C


2/12



I lay down beside her with tears in my eyes

G F C Am G F C

She said

4.33 AM Running Shoes

Am

So I stood by the roadside

F

The soles of my running shoes gripping the tarmac

Am F

Like gunmetal magnets

Am

Fixed on the front of her Fassbinder face

F

Was the kind of a smile

Am

That only a rather dull child could have drawn

F

While attempting a graveyard in the moonlight

Am

But she was impressed

F

You could see that she thought I looked fine Am

And when she turned sweeter

F

The reason (between you and me) was

Am F

She'd just seen my green Lamborghini

C Am

So we went for a spin in the country

C Am

To feel the wind in our hair

C Am

To feel the power of my engine

C Am C Am C...

To feel the thrill of desire

F C

And then in the trees I heard a twig snap

F C

Warning lights flashed on my map

F C F

I opened my eyes and to my surprise

Arabs with Knives and West German Skies

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G A

There were Arabs with Knives F Am

At the foot of the bed

G Am C

Right at the foot of the bed

C Am

Oh my God how did they get in here?

C Am

I thought we were safe home in England

F C F

She said "Come on now kid, it was wrong what you did

G F C F

You've got to admit it was wrong what you did

G F C


3/12



You got to admit it was wrong"

Oh god....Jesus

C

Sleep Sleep

Gsus4 G

I know that I'm only dreaming

Leave her alone..get out..out..get out of my house

C

Through closed eyes

Gsus4 G

I see West German skies on the ceiling

F

And I want to get back

To the girl with the rucksack

C

To feel her flaxen hair

G

I want to be there

F

See the sun going down

F

Behind Krupps steelworks

C G

On the outskirts of some German townC

Guten Abend meiner Damen und Herren Ha Ha Ha Ha

G7

Willkommen in Konnigsburg Ha Ha Ha Ha

C

Wollen zie danzen mit mir oder drinken Bier Ha Ha Ha Ha

G7

Thank you but......

Gb F

This young lady and I

C G

Will just finish this bottle of wine

F

It was kind of you...but

Em

I think we'll just say goodnight

Leave us alone

Goodnight

Leave us alone

C

Could I have the key to one four three please?

F

There you are

Thank you, goodnight

C F C

Dm

Hello yes I'd like to order breakfast please

Em

I'd like coffee for two, and toast with marmalade

G G+

No...marmalade.

For the First Time Today-Part 2

--------------------------------

Am


4/12



For the first time today

F G C

I held her naked body next to mine

F Am Dm

In this hotel overlooking the Rhine

G G+

I made her mine

Am G C C C C F Am Dm Dm

Ooh babe...ooh babe

G G+ Am

Come with me and stay with me

F Em

Please stay with me

Uh...what is it?

F

Stay with me

Em F

Stay with me

Em F

Stay with me

No...

Am F Am

Stay with me

Forget it

Sexual Revolution

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Em

Hey...girl

Take out the dagger

C D Em

And let's have a stab at the sexual revolution

Hey girl

Let freedom for all be our rallying call

C D Em

Tomorrow lets make...our new resolution

C D

Yeah, but tonight lie still

G D Em

While I plunder your sweet grave

C

And remember

D Em

Only the poor can be saved

Hey girl

As I've always said I prefer your lips red

Not what the good Lord made

But what he intended

Hey girlDon't point the finger at me

I am only a rat in a maze like you

And only the dead go free

So...please hold my hand

As we blunder through the maze

And remember

Nothing can grow without rain

(Thunder)

C

Don't point

D Em

Don't point your finger at me


5/12



G G/F# Em

I awoke in a fever

G G/F# Em

The bedclothes were all soaked in sweat

G G/F# Em

She said "You've been having a nightmare

G G/F# Em

And it's not over yet"

C G

Then she picked up the doggy in the window

G G/F# Em

(The one with the waggly tail)

C D Em

And she put him to bed between two bits of bread

The Remains of Our Love

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G Em

I just cowered in the corner

G Em

My pyjama coat over my head

G Em

And she smiled as she finished her sandwich

G Em

F C F

And her cold eyes fixed me to my dark history

G

As she brushed the remains

F C

Of our love from the bed

C Am

And when she had turned back the covers

C Am

When all of the prayers had been read

F

She said "Come on over here you silly boy

F

Before you catch your death of cold

C

I was only joking

F

Let's leave behind the city grime

F

Let's not compete

C

It could be fine in the country

G F

Couldn't it though...come on lets go

C F C F...I said "OK"

Are we going to go now?

Where would you like to go darling?

Mmm...Vermont...Wyoming (yes)

Wyoming...huh huh

Children...(what) we're going to Wyoming

Darling...Which way is Wyoming?

Hook a right here

You're going the wrong way

I know that

I know children...

Let's see how many...Volvos we pass


6/12



On the way to our new life in the country

...One

Jade don't do that, that's really negative

Go Fishing

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As cars go by I cast my mind's eye

Over back packs on roof racks

Beyond the horizon

Where dream makers

Working white plastic processors

Invite the unwary

G

To reach for the pie in the sky

Cm

Go fishing my boy!

Bsus4 B Cdim Bsus4 B Em C D

Bsus4

We set out in the spring

D

With a trunk full of books about everything

Bsus4

About solar devices

D

And how nice natural childbirth is

Cdim

We cut down some trees

And we trailed our ideals

Bsus4 B

Through the forest glade

Cdim

We dammed up the stream

And the kids cooled their heels

Bsus4 B

In the fishing pool we'd made

Em Em/D

We held hands and we exchanged bands

C D

And we practically lived off the land

Bsus4

You adopted a fox cub D

Whose mother was somebody's coat

Bsus4

You fed him by hand

And then snuggled him down

D

In the grandfather bed while I wrote

Cdim

We grew our own maize

Bsus4

And I only occasionally went into town

Cdim


7/12



To stock up on antibiotics

Bsus4 B

And shells for the shotgun that I kept around

Em Em/D

I told the kids stories while you worked your loom

C D

And the sun went down sooner each day.

G

*Chapter six in which Eeyore has a birthday

C

And gets two presents

D G

Daddy...come on dad

Eeyore the old grey donkey stood by the side

C

Of the stream and he looked at himself in the water

D

"Pathetic" he said, "That's what it is"

Bsus4 B D

"Good morning Eeyore" said Pooh

Cdim Bsus4 B

"Oh" said Pooh, He thought for a long time

Bsus4Then the leaves all fell down

Our crops all turned brown

D

It was over

Bsus4

As the first snowflakes fell

D

I realized all was not well in the camp

Cdim

The kids caught bronchitis

Bsus4 B

The space heater ran out of diesel

Cdim

One weekend a friend from the East,

Bsus4 B

Rot his soul, stole your heart

Em

I said "Fuck it then

Em/D

Take the kids back to town

C D

Maybe I'll see you around"

G C D G Am7 G C G/B

Am7 G And so...leaving all our hopes and dreams

C Am7 D

To the wind and the rain

G

Taking only our stash

Am7 G

Left our litter and trash

C

And set out on the road again

G/B Am7 G

On the road again

C

On the road again


8/12



D G Em

On the road

Bye Bye Daddy, Bye Daddy

Em

You can bring Pearl she's a darn nice girl

But don't bring Liza

For the First Time Today-Part 1

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Am

For the first time today

F G C

I feel it's really over

F Dm

You were my everyday excuse

G G+

For playing deaf, dumb and blind

Am

Who'd have ever thought

F G C

This was how it would end for you and me

F DmTo carry my own millstone

G G+

Out of the trees

Am

And I have to admit

I don't like it a bit

F Am

Being left here beside this lonesome road.

D/F#

Lonesome road

E7-10

Lonesome road

Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin

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Hey kid, you looking for a lift?...Get on up here

How's it going good buddy?

C Am

I nailed ducks to the wall

G C Am

Kept my heart in dark ruins

G C Am

I built bungalows all over the hills

G C Am

Dunroamin, duncarin, dunlivinG C Am

Took my girl to the country

G C Am

To sleep out under the moon

C Am

Next thing she's going crazy

C

Women are like that kid

Am

What the hell can you do?

G C Am

She waits for the real Mr. Right to come

G C Am


9/12



Gently removing her heart

F G

With his promises of real communication

I saw a program about that on TV........

F# F

Who's always picking up the tab

C

Who built a bungalow for his mum and dad

Me.....

F

Who took you out to all the shows

C

Who worked his fingers to the bone

Me....

G

While you were asleep

It was me...I did

F# F

I kept you in buttons and bows

Christ all those clothes C

So you could encourage this creep

F# F

With his neat feet

C

And his clean fingernails

F# F C

With his wise but twinkling eyes

F C

He's a rock standing out in an ocean of doubt

F

Get movin', get off the road ya Goddam faggot

G

And compromise

F# F C

I'd like to go on with this bit of a song

F C

Describing this schmuck

F G C

I'd like to go on, but I'm going to throw up

Am

[Not in my rig you don't boy...get the hell out of here]

The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking

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Intro: A A G G C Am D D G G

Dm

An angel on a Harley

Am

Pulls across to greet a fellow rolling stone

Dm

Puts his bike up on it's stand

Leans back and then extends

Am

A scarred and greasy hand...he said

G C Am

How ya doin bro?...where ya been?...where ya goin'?


10/12



D

Then he takes your hand

In some strange Californian handshake

G

And breaks the bone

Have a nice day

Dm

A housewife from Encino

Whose husband's on the golf course

Am

With his book of rules

Dm

Breaks and makes a 'U' and idles back

Am

To take a second look at you

G

You flex your rod

C Am

Fish takes the hook

D

Sweet vodka and tobacco in her breath

G Another number in your little black book

C Em

These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking

C Em


D G

Oh babe, I must be dreaming

Dm

I'm standing on the leading edge

Am

The Eastern seaboard spread before my eyes

Dm

"Jump" says Yoko Ono

Am

"I'm too scared and too good looking" I cried

G

"Go on", she says

C Am

"Why don't you give it a try?

D G

Why prolong the agony all men must die"

Dm

Do you remember Dick Tracy?

Am

Do you remember Shane?

And mother wants you

Dm

Could you see him selling tickets

Am

Where the buzzard circles over [Shane]

The body on the plain

G

Did you understand the music Yoko

C Am

Or was it all in vain? [Shane]

D

The bitch said something mystical "Herro"


11/12



G

So I stepped back on the kerb again

C Em


C Em


D G

Oh babe, I must be dreaming again

C Em (repeat and fade)


Every Strangers Eyes

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C

Hello...you wanna cup of coffee?

Dm

I'm sorry, would you like a cup of coffee?

G

Ok you take cream and sugar?

C

In truck stops and hamburger joints

In Cadillac limousines Dm

In the company of has-beens

G

And bent-backs and sleeping forms

On pavement steps

C

In libraries and railway stations

In books and banks

Dm

In the pages of history

G

In suicidal cavalry attacks

C G/B Am

I recognise...

F G C

Myself in every stranger's eyes

C

And in wheelchairs by monuments

Under tube trains and commuter accidents

Dm

In council care and county courts

G

At Easter fairs and sea-side resorts C

In drawing rooms and city morgues

In award winning photographs

Of life rafts in the China seas

Dm

In transit camps, under arc lamps

On unloading ramps

G

In faces blurred by rubber stamps

C G/B Am


12/12


I recognise...

F G C

Myself in every stranger's eyes

C C

And now from where I stand

Dm G

Upon this hill I plundered from the pool

C C/E

I look around, I search the skies

Dm G

I shade my eyes, so nearly blind

C C/B Am

And I see signs of half remembered days

G F C/E Dm G

I hear bells that chime in strange familiar ways

C C/B Am

I recogn-a-a-a-a-a-ise...

F G C

The hope you kindle in your eyes

It's oh so easy now

F G

As we lie here in the dark

EmNothing interferes it's obvious

Am

How to beat the tears

Dm

That threaten to snuff out

G C

The spark of our love

The Moment of Clarity

----------------------

C

And the moment of clarity

Am

Faded like charity does

Sometimes

I open one eye

F C

And I put out my hand just to touch your soft hair

F C

To make sure in the darkness that you were still there

F

And I have to admit

C Am G F CI was just a little afraid, oh yeah

Am

But then...

F

I had a little bit of luck

You were awake

C

I couldn't take another moment alone.

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