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              Karma Chameleon             Colour By Numbers (1983)

 

       Verse 1:

              A#           F            A#

       Desert love in your eyes all the way

            A#             F             A#

       If I listen to your lie would you say

             D#               Fb

       I'm a man whith out conviction

             D#              Fb

       I'm a man who doesn't know

              D#           Fb                       D#                 Gm       F

       How to sell a contradiction    You come and go    You come and go ho ho ho

      

       Chorus:

       A#                      F            Gm

       Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon

                    Cm                          A#   F

       You come and go             You come and go

       A#                           F                    Gm

       Loving would be easy if your colours were like my dream

                     Cm                          A#      F

       Red, gold and green         Red, gold and gre-e-e-en

      

       Verse 2:

              A#               F           A#

       Didn't hear your wicked words every day

               A#            F                 A#

       And you used to be so sweet I heard you say

               D#           Fb

       That my love was an addiction

               D#                Fb

       When we cling our love is strong

                D#                Fb

       When you go you're gone forever

                  D#                           Gm         F

       You string along            You string along ah ah ong

      

       Chorus:

      

       Bridge:

       D#                     Dm           D#                       Gm

       Every day is like a survival        You're my lover not my rival

       D#                     Dm           D#                     Gm  F

       Every day is like a survival        You're my lover not my ri--val

      

       Break: A#    F       (Harmonica solo)

      

       Verse 3:

             D#               Fb                        D#              Fb

       I'm a man whith out conviction      I'm a man who doesn't know

              D#            Fb                          D#                   Gm   F

       How to sell a contracdiction        You come and go      You come and go

      

       Chorus:

 

 

       define:  A#: 688766   Fb: 8-8-10-10-10-8   D#: 668886   Gm: 10-10-12-12-11-10

                Cm: 8-10-10-8-8-8   Dm: 557765