Diplomats Son Chords

Capo: 4th fret
Original Key: F#

[Intro]
D Em A A7
 
[Verse 1]
         D    Em A
It's not right,
                  D    Em A
but it's now or never
         D Em A
And if I wa-a-a-ait
                      D    Em A
could I ever forgive myself?
 
    D    Em A

On a night
                                  D     Em A
when the moon glows yellow in the riptide
         D Em A
With the li-i-i-ight
                            D   Em7 A7
from the TVs buzzing in the house
      D                     Em
Cause I'm gonna cut it where I can
         A                   A7

And then I'm gonna duck out behind them
     D                     Em
If I ever had a chance it's now then
      A                            A7           D   Em7 A7
But I never had the feeling I could offer that to you

 
[Pre-chorus]
   D          Em          A7
To offer it to you would be cruel
                   D       Em   A7
When all I want to do is use, use you
 
 
[Chorus 1]
                    D
He was a diplomat's son
Em               A   A7
   It was ‘eighty-one,
                    D
He was a diplomat's son
Em               A   A7
   It was ‘eighty-one, oh-oh-oh-oh
 
 
D Em A A7
D Em A A7
 
[Verse 2]
           D    Em A
Dressed in white
        A7                    D    Em A A7
with my car keys hidden in the kitchen
        D    Em A
I could sleep
    A7           D    Em A A7
wherever I lay my head
 
        D    Em A
And the sight
        A7                      D      Em A A7
of your two shoes sitting in the bathtub
       D    Em A
Let me know
       A7                   D
that I shouldn't give up just yet
 
      D                     Em
Cause I'm gonna take it from Simon
         A                   A7
And then I'm gonna duck out behind them
     D                     Em
If I ever had a chance it's now then
      A                            A7           D   Em7 A7

But I never had the feeling I could offer that to you
 
 
[Pre-chorus]
   D          Em          A
To offer it to you would be cruel
     A7           D       Em   A  A7
When all I want to do is use, use you
 
 
[Chorus 1]
                    D
He was a diplomat's son
Em               A   A7
   It was ‘eighty-one,
                    D
He was a diplomat's son
Em               A   A7
   It was ‘eighty-one, oh-oh-oh-oh
 
 
[Bridge]
G D D A7
 
G D D A7
 
G        D
  I know, you'll say
D            A7
I'm not doing it right
    G             D
But this is how I want it
 
D A7
 
G        D
  I can't go back
D         A7
  To how I felt before
 
 
[Verse 3]
D              Em
   That night I smoked a joint
     A
With my best friend
   A7                D
We found ourselves in bed
            Em       A    A7
When I woke up he was gone
 
[Chorus 2]
D          Em
   He was a diplomat's son
A         A7
   It was ‘eighty-one,
D          Em
   He was a diplomat's son
A         A7
   It was ‘eighty-one
 
[Instrumental break]
 
D Em A A7
D Em A A7
 
G D D A7
G D D A7
 
[Outro]
 
D Em A
D Em A
 
        D Em A
Looking out
                           D       Em A
at the ice cold water all around me
       D    Em A
I can't feel
                        D     Em A
any traces of that other place
      D    Em A
In the dark
                                   D    Em A
when the wind comes racing off the river
          D Em A
There's a car
                          D     Em A
all black with diplomatic plates