Cream – What A Bringdown (Guitar)

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What A Bringdown (Ginger Baker – Mike Taylor)
Opening Riff( Em  Em  Em  Am  G  G  G  G  D  Bm/F# ) x 4 5/4
Verse ¾ 

Em            G          Am        Am/C     Am/D       
‘Tators in a jam-jar, Parson's collar in the sky

Em            G          Am        Am/C     Am/D
Water in a fountain doesn't get me very high

Em            G            Am             Am
Moby Dick and Albert making out with Captain Bligh

C                                  D
So you know what you know in your head.

G                                        F#                  Bsus4 B
Will you, won't you, do you, don't you know when a head's dead?  What a Bringdown!
Riff( Em Em Em Am G G G G D Bm/F# ) x n
Em            G          Am          Am/C     Am/D
Winter leader Lou is grownin', Hampstead's in the north.

Em            G          Am          Am/C     Am/D
Betty B's been wearin' daisies since the twenty-fourth.

Em            G          Am            Am
Wears a gunner when there's one more coming forth.

C                                    D
And you know what you know in your head

G                                 F#            Bsus4 B
Will you, won't you, do you, don't you wanna go to bed?
What a Bringdown!
Riff( Em  Em  Em  Am  G  G  G  G  D  Bm/F# ) x n
Bridge

   C        Am          G        C                 
There's a tea leaf about in the family.

   C         Am          G      C
Full of nothin', their fairy tale

   C        Am           G        C
There's a tea leaf a-floatin' now for Rosalie.

        D           C       D    B
They'll believe in ding-dong bell.
Riff ( Em Em Em Am G Em Em Em D Bm ) x n
Em            G          Am        Am/C     Am/D
Take a butchers at the dodginesses of Old Bill.

Em            G          Am        Am/C     Am/D
Aristotle's orchestra are living on the pill.

Em            G          Am          Am
One of them gets very, very prickly when he's ill

         C                           D
And you know what you know in your head.

G                                      F#             Bsus4 B
Will you, won't you, do you don't you wanna make more bread? What a Bringdown!  
Riff ( Em Em Em Am G G G G D Bm/F# ) x n Yeah