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Frank Black and the Catholics
Song: Billy Radcliffe 
Album: Pistolero
Tabbed by: jmeronk@ix.netcom.com    revisions: Derek


**Capo on 1st fret**

Chords have been renamed according to the capo for ease of reading and playing.  
For example, even though an A chord played with a capo at the 1st position is 
technically an A# chord, it is still referred to as an A chord.   All positions 
are also relative to the capo.

INTRO
e--------------------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-
b--------------------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-
g--------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-
d--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4---4-4-4-4-4-4-4-
a--0-2-2-0-2-2-0-2---4-4-4-4-4-4-4-
e--------------------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-


VERSE 1
       G      Bm        A            E
	Billy Radcliffe didn't go to town
       G
	And when we looked up
 	       D             A7sus4*
	He was looking right down
       G         Bm          A              E
	Catching blue in his eyes that were brown
	G     Bm         G     Bm        G    intro
	Billy Radcliffe (Billy Radcliffe)

VERSE 2 (same chords as first verse)
  Billy Radcliffe owned by the state
  From his first breath
  Unto the cemetery gate
  He was the first boy born in space
  Billy Radcliffe (Billy Radcliffe)


BRIDGE 1
      Bm    
	Billy Radcliffe very first one
      G
	He really had lived just a cursed son
      E
	A split in half man sing the cherubim
      G        Bm         G     Bm        G    intro
	Billy Radcliffe (Billy Radcliffe)

CHORUS 1
   D         G         E            A           Bm      D
   Now Billy Radcliffe saw what the devil never saw (he saw)
             G           E            A          Bm        D
   A spot of blue in the black of the eye of the Lord (the Lord)
          G         E       A                   Bm  
   Such a cruel love is the kind that has wrought oh Billy
   D     G        D  G   D   G  intro
   Billy Radcliffe

VERSE 3 (same chords as first verse)
  Billy sadly didn't live long
  He had to stay there
  Because he wasn't too strong
  Steppin' out the door going off like a bomb
  Billy Radcliffe (Billy Radcliffe)

BRIDGE 2
   Bm
     Billy Radcliffe very first one 
   G
     Really a hatched man light switch son
   E
     A split in half man sing the cherubim
   Bm
     Billy Radcliffe very first one 
   G
     A split in half man sing the cherubim
   E
     I bet you cried when he died now didya now didya


CHORUS 2
  D          G         E            A         Bm      D
   Now Billy Radcliffe saw what the devil man saw (he saw)
             G           E            A          Bm
   A spot of blue in the black of the eye of the Lord, oh Billy 
  D      G         E            A                    
   Billy Radcliffe saw what the devil had 
  E           A
   And I feel very bad for 
  Bm       G        Bm  G  Bm  G
   William Radcliffe

ENDTRO
 e-------------------2----
 b-------------------2--- 
 g-------------------3--- 
 d-------------------0--- 
 a--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--0--- 
 e--0-3-3-0-3-3-0-3------
                     D

E--0--     --0--
B--3--     --3--
G--0--     --0--
D--2--     --0--
A--0--     --2--
E-----     --3--
 *A7sus4      G (sometimes played like this I think)

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