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Fake Tales of San Francisco

Arctic Monkeys

RockAdvanced for beginners8 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Bm×
A×
BDiagram coming soon
G
E
D5Diagram coming soon
D#5Diagram coming soon
E5Diagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Intro: Bm  A  Bm  A 
        Bm  A  Bm  A 
  
Verse 1:  
Bm            A       Bm 
Fake Tales of San Francisco 
A    Bm               A  Bm  A 
Echo through the room 
     Bm         A       Bm 
More point to a wedding disco 
    A     Bm          A  Bm  A 
Without a bride or groom 
  
          Bm         A 
There's a super cool band yeah 
           Bm                 A            Bm     A  Bm  A 
With their trilbies and their glasses of white wine 
            Bm         A              Bm 
And all the weekend rock stars in the toilets 
A              Bm    A  Bm  A 
Practicing their lines 
  
  
Bm 
I don't want to hear you 
     
(Kick me out, kick me out) 
Bm 
I don't want to hear you no 
     
(Kick me out, kick me out) 
Bm 
I don't want to hear you no 
     
(Kick me out, kick me out) 
Bm 
I don't want to hear you 
     
I don't want to hear you 
  
  Verse 2:
Bm            A         Bm 
Fake Tales of San Francisco 
A       Bm         A  Bm  A 
Echo through the air 
              Bm        A            Bm 
And there's a few bored faces in the back 
    A          Bm        A     Bm  A 
All wishing they weren't there 
  
           Bm              A 
And as the microphone squeaks 
               Bm           A 
A young girl's telephone beeps 
           Bm                A 
Yeah she's dashing for the exit 
          Bm             A          Bm 
Oh, she's running to the streets outside 
           A              Bm                A 
"Oh you've saved me," she screams down the line 
     Bm                A 
"The band were fucking wank 
            Bm         A 
And I'm not having a nice time" 
  
  
Bm 
I don't want to hear you 
     
(Kick me out, kick me out) 
Bm 
I don't want to hear you no 
     
(Kick me out, kick me out) 
Bm 
Yeah but his bird thinks it's amazing, though 
     
So all that's left 
     
Is the proof that love's not only blind but deaf 
  
Bridge:B  G  E 
        B  D5  D#5  E5 
  
  Verse 3:
B                                      G 
  He talks of San Francisco, he's from Hunter's Bar 
  G 
I don't quite know the distance 
        E 
But I'm sure that's far 
                       B        D5  D#5  E5 
Yeah, I'm sure that's pretty far 
  
B                                    G 
   Yeah, I'd love to tell you all my problem 
                                         E 
You're not from New York City, you're from Rotherham 
                              B 
So get off the bandwagon, and put down the handbook 
B 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 
  
B 
Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook 
G 
Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook 
E 
Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook 
G 
Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook 
  
Final: Bm  A  Bm  A  
        Bm  A  Bm  A 
        Bm  A  Bm  
        A  Bm  A  
        Bm  A  Bm 
          
 

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Chord set

Bm · A · B · G · E · D5 · D#5 · E5

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.