artist:  Sex Pistols
title:  Belsen Was a Gas
album:  The Great Rock and Roll Swindle
tuning:  standard

There are two differing versions of this tune, the Sex Pistols version
with Johnny Rotten and the one with Ronald Biggs.  Here's both.

F-G  means slide up from the F to the G

w/ Johnny Rotten

intro:  D C D Eb  D C G   x2
DD Piano Chord 
            CC Piano Chord 
       DD Piano Chord 
              EbEb Piano Chord 

Belsen was a gas I heard the other day
DD Piano Chord 
              CC Piano Chord 
              GG Piano Chord 

In the open graves where the jews all lay
DD Piano Chord 
        CC Piano Chord 
         DD Piano Chord 
             EbEb Piano Chord 

Life is fun and I wish you were here
DD Piano Chord 
                 CC Piano Chord 
          GG Piano Chord 

They wrote on postcards to those held dear

chorus  (played twice)
CC Piano Chord 
   GG Piano Chord 
    CC Piano Chord 
   GG Piano Chord 
  CC Piano Chord 
    GG Piano Chord 
    F-G   F-G
oh dear oh dear oh dear

second verse
Sergeant majors on the march
Wash their bodies in the starch
See them all die one by one
Guess it's dead guess it's glad

chorus (twice)
so bad so bad so bad

intro

repeat first verse

outro:  ad lib chorus

with Ronald Biggs:

ok, this time for real Belsen was a gasser

intro:  D C Bb C    D C G   x2

verse
DD Piano Chord 
            CC Piano Chord 
       BbBb Piano Chord 
           CC Piano Chord 

Belsen was a gas I heard the other day
DD Piano Chord 
              CC Piano Chord 
                GG Piano Chord 

In the open graves where the jews all lay
DD Piano Chord 
         CC Piano Chord 
          BbBb Piano Chord 
         CC Piano Chord 

Life is fun and I wish you were here
DD Piano Chord 
            CC Piano Chord 
                GG Piano Chord 

They wrote on postcards to those held dear

chorus (same as other version)

second verse
Dentists search their teeth for gold
Frisk the jews for bank notes rolled
when they found out what they got
Line them up and shoot the lot

chorus
kill a man be a man kill a man

intro

third verse
Wonder what the jews would say
If I told them where Boorman was today
Would they start a vendetta
you'd better ask Ernie Ledbetter

chorus
Ledbetter Ledbetter Ledbetter

outro:  ad lib chorus

-I'm here, I'm queer, I play 5-string bass