I Am Kloot – Junk Culture (Guitar)

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From John Bramwell's pre-I Am Kloot days. Released originally in 1989 as Johnny Dangerously, on the EP You, Me And The Alarm Clock. Re-released on iTunes under the I Am Kloot name in 2012. Riff1 =====
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Chords ====== A x02220 E 022100 Esus 022200 D xx0232 D/F# 2xx232 E/G# 4x2400 Intro ===== A E D E D D/F# E/G# Verse 1 =======
A                              E
  Stumbling through small life nowhere England

        D                            E
Shaking hands with the big town life idiots 

      D                      E            Riff1
I was trying to pick up some ordinariness

         D            D/F#   E/G#    A
From the shopping bag inspir-ational choir
E D D/F# E/G# Verse 2 =======
A                                E
  Sweeping through middle town A-merica

              D               E
Stepping into fact or fiction trash TV world

D                            E            Riff1
  Caught a glimpse of myself scraping and laughing

D                 D/F#   E/G#     A
Shuffling about a-mongst the news-paper

E                 D       D/F#   E/G#     A
 Amongst the news-paper a-mongst the news-paper

E                 D       D/F#   E/G#
 Amongst the news-paper
Verse 3 =======
A                              E
  Cellophane wrapped processed lumps of meat

         D                      E
Queueing up in the morning town traffic

       D                          E            Riff1
Whilst smashing shop front girl a-ssistants into splinters

D            D/F#      E/G#      A 
With that new   sledge-hammer in-difference
E D D/F# E/G# Verse 4 =======
A                            E
  Picking up a detail from a muscle magazine

       D                         E
Whilst talking to someone else's wife

                   D                 E         Riff1
And wondering do I really care about sheet metal workers

        D             D/F#        E/G#      A
Saw you looking though  your shop window re-flection

E                D       D/F#   E/G#      A
  Shop window re-flection  shop window re-flection

E                D       D/F#   E/G#
  Shop window re-flection
Verse 5 =======
A                         E
  Some run down amusement arcade humour

     D                      E
Like cheap beer and instant coffee was pouring out

D               E        Riff1
Over the city's pavements

        D                  D/F# E/G#         A
Calling closing time on that    cinema queue fervour
E D D/F# E/G# Verse 6 / Out =============
A                       E
  Thursday night on the railway lines

            D                       E
As life and death burnt away in the distance and

  D                  E           Riff1
A million TV screens close their weary eyes

D                D/F# E/G#     A
Don't you know me     I   know you

E        D  D/F# E/G#     A
  I know you     I   know you

E        D  D/F# E/G#     A
  I know you     I   know you (repeat to fade)
----------------------------------------- I hope I've done it justice! Kevin O'Brien Watford England January 2014 [email protected]