The Last Of English Roses Chords
by Pete Doherty
The Last Of English Roses by Pete Doherty is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C#m. It uses the chords C#m, A, E and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro:
C#m A C#m A E
Verse:
C#m A C#m
Oh my you did look dapper in your mothers old green scarf
A C#m
with your famous Aunty, Arthurs trousers on
A C#m
Got slapped by that slapper and we all laughed
A E
But she laughed the loudest in 93
C#m A C#m
A
"Saucy" you'd say and we all fell around, rolling 'round the playground,
C#m A C#m
A
"Cheeky" you'd say and we all fell around, rolling 'round the playground.
E
In 94
Bridge:
E
Charm the bees knees off the bees
Skipping and dancing hand in hand
pre-Chorus
D E
Yeah it was all the boys together
D E
and all the girls together
Chorus
A E D A
She's the last of the english ro-oses
A E D A
She's the last of the english ro-oses
Verse:
C#m A C#m
She knows her Rodneys from her Stanleys and her Kappas from her Reebok
A C#m
And her tit from her tat and her Winstons from her Enoks
A C#m
And round the Snooker table she danced the Frutti-Tutti
A C#m
And she almost spilled her lager toasting girls of great beauty
Bridge:
E
2009 comin of age, comin alive
pre-Chorus
D E
Yeah it was all the boys together
D E
and all the girls together
Chorus
A E D A
She's the last of the english ro-oses
A E D A
She's the last of the english ro-oses