Verse 1:
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Fake Tales of San Francisco
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Echo through the room
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More point to a wedding disco
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Without a bride or groom
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There's a super cool band yeah
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With their trilbies and their glasses of white wine
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And all the weekend rock stars in the toilets
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Practicing their lines
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
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All wishing they weren't there
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And as the microphone squeaks
Bm A
A young girl's telephone beeps
Bm A
Yeah she's dashing for the exit
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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
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And I'm not having a nice time'
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