Title: Last Ditch Cabaret
Written by: Mark Seymour
Performed by: Mark Seymour 
>From the album: King Without A Clue

This is my interpretation of the basic chords to Last Ditch Cabaret. I 
saw Mark Seymour play live at the Continental Cafe in Melbourne on Sunday 
12 July 1998. He was awesome! He told us that this song was inspired by 
an experience he once had at the Odeon nightspot. It sounds great on 
accoustic guitar. Enjoy.

Intro: (strum)

Am      C       F      Dm

Am      C       F      Dm
  Na-na-na-na-nah   Na-na-na-nah

Am      C       F      Dm
  Na-na-na-na-nah   Na-na-na-nah

Am      C       F      Dm
  Na-na-na-na-nah


Verse 1:

Am         C                    F        Dm
  Chaos is creeping through your pretty pictures

Am             C               F         Dm
  Here in this land of savage dreams

Am             C                F       Dm
  You dare to walk alone through empty streets where

Am           C            F             Dm
  Nothing is ever what it seems

Am          C               F          Dm
  Somebody calls you but you dare not answer

Am            C             F          Dm 
  Must be the voice of desperation

Am               C             F         Dm
  Here in these days of joy and instant khama

Am              C                   F        Dm
  You hide your stash and keep your station


Chorus:

G                         C
  Just let me paint a rosey picture

Dm                            G
  Where doom and gloom is not allowed

        C         Em
We'll go cheek to cheek

      Am
As we squeeze into the crowd

Dm             F             G
  Your living death blew me away

                       Am
In this last ditch cabaret

(Am)    C      F     Dm 
  Na-na-na-na-nah Na-na-na-nah

Am      C      F   Dm
  Na-na-na-na-nah

Verse 2:

Am               C                F       Dm  
  You heard the laughing stock was being rounded

Am             C               F          Dm 
  To try their luck inside the yard

Am             C                  F              Dm 
  Blue-blooded sportsmen and your ultra-violet ladies

Am            C                    F             Dm
  Know how to take their drinkin' hard 

Am           C                  F          Dm     
  Oh brother don't you wish that you were like them

Am             C              F            Dm
  Their panick never seems to show

Am               C                F    Dm
  Tonight you're with them in this sexy  cabaret

Am                C               F    Dm
  Tonight there's nowhere else to go


Just let me paint a pretty picture
Where doom and gloom is not allowed 
We'll go cheek to cheek
As we squeeze into the crowd
Your living death blew me away

(G)                     *Amb6*
 In this last ditch cabaret....oh-oh   

Am       C       F       Dm
Am       C       F       Dm
Am       C       F       Dm
Am       C       F       Dm


Bridge: (Fingerpick)

Am                C
  All the bad old days are gone

        F                   Dm
There's no one home but the lights are on

Am               C
 I'll be there before too long

F                 Dm
Keep my head down right or wrong


Chorus:
Let me paint a rosey picture
Where doom and gloom is not allowed
We'll go cheek to cheek as we squeeze into the crowd
Your living death blew me away
In this last ditch cabaret

C       Em       Am

Dm            F              G 
  Your living death blew me away

                       C
In this last ditch cabaret

(C)  Em     Am                 }
Na-  na-na-nah    Na-na-na     }
                               }   x 6
Dm     F      G                }
       Na-na-nah               }

Am  


CHORD *Amb6*: x03210

Transcribed by Andrew Marshall: agm77@hotmail.com

If anyone has other Mark Seymour music transcribed, 
please let me know at the hotmail address above.
Cheers.