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Out Of The Game

Rufus Wainwright
Version1
90

Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
F
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:---2-----0-----2-----2-----2-----0-----1-----2-----2-----1-----3---:
:---2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----------2-----2-----0-----1-----3---:
:---0-----0-----------------2-----------------------------------1---:
4/4
B7
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 2x intro
  "I'm out of the game
  I've been out for a long time now
  I'm looking for something
  Can't be found on the main drag, no
  I'm out of the game
  I've been out for a long time now
  I'm looking for something
  Can't be found on the main drag, no"
 
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  "Look at you, look at you, look at you, look at you suckers!
  Does your mama know what you're doing?
  Look at you, look at you, look at you, look at you suckers!
  Does your mama know what you're doing?"
  "You're only a child
  with the mind of a senile man
  You're only a young thing
  About to sleep with a sea of men
  Just hanging around
  wearing something from God knows where
  Just having a ball
  making all of the thin cards fall"
 Similar to a verse, then 4 bars of E.
 The last bar is extended:
2/4 4/4
%
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  "Say, come over here
  Let me smell you for one last time
  Before you go out there
  and ruin all of the world, once mine
  I'm out of the game
  I've been out for a long time now
  I'm looking for something
  Can't be found on the main drag, no"
 The last 2 bars of F are extended to 6 bars + drum soloing.
 Then end on E.

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Readable chord sheet for Out Of The Game by Rufus Wainwright

[E]     [E7]  [Amaj7]   [A]  [F#m7]     [D7]    [B7]   [B11]   [Am7]   [Bb11]   [F]
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:---0-----0-----2-----2-----2-----1-----0-----2-----1-----1-----1---:
:---1-----1-----1-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----0-----1-----2---:
:---2-----0-----2-----2-----2-----0-----1-----2-----2-----1-----3---:
:---2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----------2-----2-----0-----1-----3---:
:---0-----0-----------------2-----------------------------------1---:

4/4
 [E]     [E7]         [Amaj7] [A]          [F#m7]             [D7]      [B7]
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 [E]     [E7]         [Amaj7] [A]          [F#m7]             [B7]      [D7]
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2x intro

 "I'm out of the game
  I've been out for a long time now
  I'm looking for something
  Can't be found on the main drag, no
  I'm out of the game
  I've been out for a long time now
  I'm looking for something
  Can't be found on the main drag, no"

 [B7]               [B11]     [B7]
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 [E]                [E7]               [Am7]              [Bb11]    [Am7]
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 [D7]               [F]                [F]
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 "Look at you, look at you, look at you, look at you suckers!
  Does your mama know what you're doing?
  Look at you, look at you, look at you, look at you suckers!
  Does your mama know what you're doing?"

 "You're only a child
  with the mind of a senile man
  You're only a young thing
  About to sleep with a sea of men
  Just hanging around
  wearing something from God knows where
  Just having a ball
  making all of the thin cards fall"

Similar to a verse, then 4 bars of E.

The last bar is extended:
 2/4      4/4
 [B7]       [D7]               %
+=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+

 "Say, come over here
  Let me smell you for one last time
  Before you go out there
  and ruin all of the world, once mine
  I'm out of the game
  I've been out for a long time now
  I'm looking for something
  Can't be found on the main drag, no"

The last 2 bars of F are extended to 6 bars + drum soloing.
Then end on E.

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