Falmouth Electrics - Half Man Half Biscuit Chords
Chords: D, A, G, Dmaj7
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Genre: indie, rock, britpop
[Intro]
D D
D D
D D
D D
A D D
[Verse 1]
A D
Seventeen years at Falmouth Electrics
A D
Then I got made redundant along with everyone else
A D
Some of the other chaps got taken on at the new Morrison’s
A D
That wasn’t for me though – I wanted somethink anew.
A D
I bought a ventriloquist dummy from a shop in Redruth
A D
I took it on home, pierced it’s ears and back-combed its hay-er!
A D
With eyeliner on it looked like Pete Murphy a bit
A D
He could talk fairly well though he couldn’t pronounce the letter “B”.
A D
I said that’s okay lad it makes life much easier for me
A D
He said his name was Gary I said d’you mean Barry he said “yeah”
A D
We paraded the High Street in Falmouth and went down a storm
A D
He’d thought up a catchphrase and he used it as we neared HMV
A D D
“Have you got any Gauhaus, have you got any Gauhaus?” Pschhh...
[Instr]
D D
D D
D D
A D D
[Verse 2]
A D
All was tremendous between us until it went wrong
A D
We argued a lot: he demanded a signature song
A D
And he mocked me and taunted me and bragged that he’d got all the girls
D
(“I got all the girls!”)
A D D N.C.
So I lashed him on the fire and that was the end of all that.
[Chorus]
G A D
Bye-bye to Barry, I’m bound for Barbados by boat
G A D
Be-bop-a-Lula Barbados with Barbara by boat
G A D
Has the cat got your tongue Barry – have you got nothing to say?
G A D
Build me up butter bean, Babbacombe and the Bay of Biscay
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