Album tersebut diproduseri oleh Gary Katz dan dirilis pada 1976 dengan membawa sembilan lagu.
Lagu-lagu dalam album The Royal Scam sudah bisa dinikmati lewat platform musik digital.
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Don't Take Me Alive" dari Steely Dan.
Cm Csus4 Cm F/G** G7
Fm7 Gm7 Abmaj7 Bb Csus4 Csus4 Eb/Ab F/G*
Cm Csus4 Cm F/G** G7
Fm7 Gm7 Abmaj7 Bb Csus4 Cm Cm Gm7/C
[Verse 1]
Cm Cm Cm7
Agents of the law
Cm Gm Gm7
Luckless pedestrians
Gm Fm7
I know you're out there
Bb/Eb C/F D/G
With rage in your eyes and your megaphones
Eb/Ab F/G Cm Cm7
Saying all is forgiven
Cm Gm Gm7
Mad Dog surrender
Gm Fm7
How can I answer?
Bb/Eb C/F D/G
A man of my mind can do anything.
[Chorus]
Eb/Ab F/G* Cm
I'm a bookkeeper's son
Cm F/G** G7
I don't want to shoot no one
Fm7 Gm7 Abmaj7 Bb
Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon, don't take me
Csus4 Csus4
Alive
F/G Cm Cm
Got a case of dynamite
F/G** G7
I could hold out here all night
Fm7 Gm7 Abmaj7 Bb
Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon, don't take me
Csus4 Csus4 Csus4 Csus4
alive
[Verse 2: chords sama dengan Verse 1]
Can you hear the evil crowd
The lies and the laughter
I hear my insides,
The mechanized hum of another world
Where no sun is shining
No red light flashing
Here in this darkness
I know what I've done
I know all at once who I am
[Kembali ke Chorus]
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