The Universal

Steve Marriott & Ronnie Lane / the Small Faces: Autumn Stone (1968)

	A
	There’s such a lot of good ways to be bad

	D	A
And	so many bad ways to be good - haven’t paid my	rent yet.

	B7	E7	A
	I tell them sorry but I	haven’t got the money any	more!

	F#	B7	E7
	Just for today I thought I’d leave home alone, hold	hands with day;

	D	A
And if	I’m so bad, why don’t they take me a	way?

	A
	Just like what you hear with a shell pressed to your ear:

	D	D7	A
That’s the	sea in the trees in the	morning! Hello the	universal!

	B7	E7	A
	Good morning Steve, well	you won’t believe me to	day.

	F#	B7	E7
	Working doesn’t seem to be the perfect thing for me so I’ll co	ntinue to play

	D	A
And if	I’m so bad why don’t they take me a	way?

	D	Dsus4	D	A	B7	E7	A

	A
	Well a hippy trippy name dropper came through my door.

	D
He said "I	just bumped into Mick, he told me you know where to score?"

	A	B7	E7	A
No not	me friend,	I mind my own	and my own minds	me.

	F#	B7	E7
	Well my love is at the foot of your hand -	come what may.

	D	A
But if	June comes first please won’t you take me a	way?