Half Man Half Biscuit – On Finding The Studio Banjo (Guitar)

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[Intro] G```/C`G` (x4)
G                            C              G
Unemployment’s rising in the Chigley end of town
It’s spreading like pneumonia
        C               G
Doesn’t look like going down

                                    C                 G
There’s trouble at the fire station someone’s had the sack

                                                 C              G
And the lads are going to launch a scheme to get rid of Captain Flack
G```/C`G` (x2)
                   C             G
Tell PC McGarry to get himself a mate
And arm themselves with CS gas
        C            G
They’re gonna be out late

                                C  G
We’ve had Cant conformism since 1966

                                       C               G
And now subversion’s in the air in the shape of flying bricks
G```/C`G` (x2)
                                 D       G
Someone get a message through to Captain Snort

                                        D             G
That they’d better start assembling the boys from the fort

                      D            G
And keep Mrs Honeyman right out of sight

                                        D          G
‘Cos there’s going to be a riot down in Trumpton tonight
G```/C`G` (x4)
                         C             G
All this aristocracy has really got to stop

                                 C         G
We can overthrow the surgery and kidnap Dr Mopp

                                     C                G
And Chippy Minton’s Socialists could storm the Market Square

                                  C          G
And make plans to assassinate our autocratic Mayor
G```/C`G` (x2)
                                     C                G
Windy Militant leads his Basque-like corn grinders to war

                                              C                   G
With windmill sails and bombs with nails they smash the town hall door

                                    C                 G
But Snorty and his boys arrive with one big erstwhile crew

                             C        G
Whereupon they bring about a military coup

                                 D       G
Someone get a message through to Captain Snort

                                        D             G
That they’d better start assembling the boys from the fort

                      D            G
And keep Mrs Honeyman right out of sight

                                        D          G         G  C  G
‘Cos there’s going to be a riot down in Trumpton tonight