Room at the top    (video)

 

    D - F   - D - F    - D - F - D (2x)  +  Well !

 

       D                                                                         - C - G

1. Once is never enough, never is, never was, aha,

      D

    here and now is all that counts,

                                                                - C - G

    here and now in large amounts, aha.

             A                                     G                                       D   - F - D - F

    Be beautiful, but shut up, the going can be real tough, aha.

 

       D                                                                                                - C - G

2. You can keep your fancy bars, clubby friends and fast cars, aha,

                D                                                                                        - C - G

    and when the going gets hard, you can eat your credit cards, aha.

        A                                       G                              D    - F - D

    I really tried to fight it, but what the hell I like it, aha.

        F   - A                                    C                  G     A

    Well,       oho oho oh, oho oho oh, oho oho ho, yeah !

 

               D                             G                          F                               G 

There is always room at the top, don’t let them tell you that there is not !

                D                             G          F                              A

Made in England, born and bred, an eighteenth century brain

                                         D

in a twenty-first century head.

 

+  D - F   - D - F     - D - F - D

 

         D

3. If some of this fits some of you

                                                                     - C - G

    or like the things that you might do, aha,

     D                                                                                                 - C - G

    it’s the pleasure and the pain that makes us do it all again, aha.

                             A

    They say, be beautiful and shut up,

            G                                       D   - F - D

    the going can be real tough, aha.

        F    - A                                   C                  G     A

    Well,       oho oho oh, oho oho oh, oho oho ho, yeah !

 

               D                             G                          F                               G 

There is always room at the top, don’t let them tell you that there is not !

                D                             G          F                              A

Made in England, born and bred, an eighteenth century brain

 

in a twenty-first century.

 

        D

+  Room at the top, so eighteenth century !

       D

    Room at the top, so eighteenth century !

       G                      - G                            D         C     G

    Room at the top,        there’s always room ! Ooh, ooh.

        D

    Room at the top, so eighteenth century !

        D

    Room at the top, so eighteenth century !

        G                     - G                            D               C             G

    Room at the top,        there’s always room ! Hey hey, hey, hey !

 

+  A      +   D - G - D       +  A - C - A - C - G

 

     A                                     C                  G     A

+       Oho oho oh, oho oho oh, oho oho ho, yeah !

 

               D                             G                          F                               G

There is always room at the top, don’t let them tell you that there is not,

               D                              G          F                              A

made in England, born and bred, an eighteenth century brain !

 

+  repeat last CHORUS (3x)

 

               A

+  In a twenty-first century.

 

 

(orig. = capo 2nd)    (Adam Ant)