Bad Brakes chords by
Yusuf / Cat Stevens
Yusuf / Cat Stevens

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Key: D major
Intro 1
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Bad brakes,
Verse 1
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whole car shakes.
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Looks like I'm heading
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for a breakdown.
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Black smoke, engine beginning to choke.
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I must be heading for a breakdown.
Verse 2
Bm
Bm
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I pulled up for a mouth
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of coca- cola
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F#m
Down at samuel's cafe.
Bm
Bm
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Saw a little spanish lady
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coming over;
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Said: "Lady are you going my
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way?" She said: "O- lay."
Verse 3
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Bad brakes, carburetor shakes.
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Looks like you're heading
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for a breakdown.
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Black smoke, engine beginning to choke.
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We must be heading for a breakdown.
Verse 4
Bm
Bm
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We hit the road at ninety
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miles an hour;
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F#m
Heading for 'frisco bay.
Bm
Bm
She said: "Senor,
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you got cop on your shoulder."
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I said: "Oh, now we'd better not stay,
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We got to get away with our
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Bad brakes, carburetor shakes;
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Looks like we're heading for a breakdown"
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Interlude 1
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Verse 5
Bm
Bm
He was catching up,
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nose right inside our mirror
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F#m
When the motor blowed.
Bm
Bm
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We climbed out and she began to shiver.
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Oh, no, sir please let us go?
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He said: "Don't you know you got
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Bad brakes, carburetor shakes;
Looks like you bought
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yourself a breakdown.
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Black smoke,
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G
G
engine beginning to choke,
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And you've got yourself a breakdown."
Verse 6
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Bad brakes, engine begin
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ning to shake;
Looks like we've got
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ourselves a breakdown.
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Black smoke,
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engine beginning to choke;
Outro 1
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We got ourselves a breakdown.
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