Jacky Cifras

Marc Almond - Jacky (Jacques Brel &  Gérard Jouannest)
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There's multiple key changes from F#m to Gb throughout the song but to make things easier I have kept
the same key and sharps/flats chord notation in the whole song - The chords listed are merely suggestions that
will work for a solo performance.
 
Video Here - https://youtu.be/adRNP-IqBVc
 
Suggested Chords
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   F#m7 G#m7  F#m  C#m7  F# F#maj7  C#7  G#m  G#mMaj7  C#  A# D#m  A#m  D   E
e|--2----4-----9----9----6----6------4----4-----4------4---6---6----6---5---7--|
B|--2----4-----10---9----7----6------6----4-----4------6---6---7----6---7---9--|
G|--2----4-----11---9----6----6------4----4-----4------6---7---8----6---7---9--|
D|--2----4-----11---9----8----8------6----6-----5------6---8---8----8---7---9--|
A|--4----6-----9----11---9----9------4----6-----6------4---8---6----8---5---7--|
E|--2----4-----X----9----X----X------x----4-----4------X---6---X----6---X---X--|
 
 
[Intro]
F#m7    G#m7    F#m7    G#m7    F#m7    G#m7     F#m7    G#m7             F#m
                                                         Jack, Jack
 
[Verse]
F#m        C#m7         F#m              C#m7          F#m               C#m7            F#m     C#m7
And if one day I should become, a singer with a Spanish bum who sings for women of great virtue
F#m         C#m7        F#m               C#m7          F#m                C#m7               F#m       C#m7
I'd sing to them with a guitar I borrowed from a coffee bar, Well what you don't know doesn't hurt you
F#                      F#maj7                       F#
My name would be Antoni-o and all my bridges I would burn
                                 F#maj7                    G#m7       C#7    G#m7    C#7
And when I gave them some they'd know I'd expect something in return
G#m                         G#mMaj7                     G#m7
I'd have to get drunk every night and talk about virili-ty
                               C#                         A#             A#7
With some old grandmother that might be decked out like a Christmas tree
D#m         A#m          D#m                A#m              D#m
And no pink elephant I'd see, though I'd be drunk as I could be
              A#m             D#m          A#m                  F#
Still I would sing my song to me about the time they called me "Jacky"
 
[Chorus]
           F#             F#maj7           F#        F#maj7     G#m
If I could be for only an hour, If I could be for an hour every day
G#m7       G#m    G#mMaj7         G#m7    C# N.C.              F#    D  E  F#m
If I could be for just one little hour,   Cute in a stupid ass way         Jacky
 
[Verse]
F#m      C#m7              F#m              C#m7           F#m                 C#m7            F#m     C#m7
And if I joined the social whirl became pro-curer of young girls, then I could have my own bor-dellos
F#m       C#m7            F#m              C#m7           F#m              C#m7       F#m      C#m7
My record would be number one and I'd sell records by the ton, all sung by many other fellows
F#                             F#maj7                         F#
My name would then be handsome Jack and I'd sell boats of opi-um
                              F#maj7                    G#m7           C#7    G#m7    C#7
Whisky that came from Twicken-ham, authentic queens and phoney virgins
G#m                      G#mMaj7                         G#m7                          C#
I'd have a bank on every finger, a finger in every count-ry and every country ruled by me
                         A#      A#7
I'd still know where I'd wanna be
D#m          A#m           D#m             A#m           D#m
Locked up in-side my opium den, Surrounded by some china men
             A#m              D#m             A#m                  F#
I'd sing the song that I sang then, About the time they called me "Jacky"
 
[Chorus]
           F#             F#maj7           F#        F#maj7     G#m
If I could be for only an hour, If I could be for an hour every day
G#m7       G#m    G#mMaj7         G#m7    C# N.C.              F#    F#m                  D  E  F#m
If I could be for just one little hour,   Cute in a stupid ass way  (16 bars instumental)
 
[Verse]
F#m           C#m7           F#m               C#m7        F#m               C#m7           F#m      C#m7
Now, tell me, wouldn't it be nice, that if one day in para-dise I'd sing for all the ladies up there
F#m            C#m7            F#m             C#m7           F#m              C#m7          F#m     C#m7
And they would sing along with me and we be so happy there to be, 'Cos down be-low is really nowhere
F#                          F#maj7                             F#
My name would then be "Jupi-ter" then I would know where I was going
           F#maj7                             G#m7    C#7    G#m7    C#7
Become all knowing, my beard so very long and flowing
G#m                            G#mMaj7                        G#m7
If I could play deaf, dumb and blind because I pitied all man-kind
                                  C#                       A#          A#7
And broke my heart to make things right, I know that every single night
D#m        A#m            D#m                 A#m           D#m
When my an-gelic work was through, the angels and the Devil too
              A#m               D#m           A#m                  F#
Could sing my childhood song to me, about the time they called me "Jacky"
 
[Chorus]
           F#             F#maj7           F#        F#maj7     G#m
If I could be for only an hour, If I could be for an hour every day
G#m7       G#m    G#mMaj7         G#m7    C# N.C.              F#
If I could be for just one little hour,   Cute in a stupid ass way
 
[Outro]
G#m    F#m    G#m     F#m    D   E  F#m  D  E  F#
                       Jacky
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