----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE------------------------------ This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transcrption by: Jouni A. Smed (jounsmed@utu.fi) THE FLETCHER MEMORIAL HOME Pink Floyd (Waters) G C G/B Am Take all your overgrown infants away, somewhere, D Bb+ Bm A/C# And build them a home, a little place of their own. D Em C D Em7 D/F# G C The Fletcher Memorial Home for incurable tyrants and kings. G C G/B Am And they can appear to themselves every day, D Bb+ Bm A/B Bm On closed circuit T.V. to make sure they're still real. C D Em It's the only connection they feel. Cmaj7 "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Reagan and Haig, D Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher and Paisley, Cmaj7 Mr. Brezhnev and party, the ghost of McCarthy, D The memories of Nixon. And now adding colour, G D/F# C A group of anonymous Latin-American meat packing glitterati." Em D Did they expect us to treat them with any respect? G D/F# C They can polish their medals and sharpen their smiles, G D/F# C And amuse themselves playing games for a while. G D/F# C Em add9 Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead. G D/F# Em D/F# G D/F# Em D Cmaj7 D G D/F# C D G D/F# Cmaj7 D G D/F# Cmaj7 Em add9 G C G/B Am Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye, D Bb+ Bm With their favorite toys, they'll be good girls and boys. A/C# D Em C D Em7 D/F# G In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial wasters of life and limb. D/F# C G D/F# C add9 Is everone in? Are you having a nice time? D/F# C Em add9 Now the final solution can be applied. -- Updated: April 7/98