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Broadford Bazaar [Bonus Track] chords by Jethro Tull

  • Bsus4

    2
  • B

    2
  • Em

  • D

  • Bm

    2
  • A

  • G

  • Asus4

Intro 1
Bsus4
B
Bsus4
B
Verse 1
Em
D
Bm
Dirty white caravans down our road,
A
sailing.
Em
A
D
A
Vivas, cortinas, weaving in their wake.
D
Em
D
With hot, red-faced drivers, drivers,
G
A
Asus4
A
horns flattened, fists whaling,
D
Putting trust in blind corners
G
A
as they overtake.

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Verse 2
D
A
And it's ''allcome willing now,
G
A
Spend a shilling now,
D
G
Stack up the back of your
D
new motor-car.''
A
Asus4
A
D
G
There's home-dyed woolens, woolens,
A
D
and wee plastic [cuillins]
[blessed? ] [cuchulains? ]
[cuchulain == mythical irish hero --- wee plastic cuchulains? ]
Verse 3
G
[jo-l@kcbbs.gen.nz (jo lobb) explains: broadford is a
town on
A
Skye (where the road that passes
dun ringill leaves the main
Road, incidentally) and skye's
Bm
B
famous cuillin hills are nearby.
Bsus4
I suppose tourists could be expected
to buy wee plastic models
B
Of spectacular hills .... also,
the cuillin hills are ''also
Known as the coolins or cuchullins, possibly
after an ossianic
Hero...'', so maybe wee plastic model
Em
heroes do make sense, after
All.]
Verse 4
The day of the broadford bazaar.
D
Out of the north,
Bm
A
no oil-rigs are are drifting.
Em
D
And jobs for the many are down
Bm
D
A
D
to the few.
Em
D
Blue-bottle choppers, choppers,
G
A
Asus4
A
they visit no longer.
D
Asus4
D
Like flies to the jampots, they were
G
A
Asus4
A
just passing through.
Verse 5
D
A
And it's ''allcome willing now,
G
A
Spend a shilling now,
D
G
Stack up the back of your
D
new motor-car''
A
Asus4
A
Where once stood
D
G
oil-rigs so so phallic
A
Bm
There's only swear-words in in gaelic
G
A
B
To say at the
Interlude 1
broadford bazaar.
B
Bsus4
B
Verse 6
Em
D
All kinds of people come down for
A
Asus4
A
the opening.
Em
D
Crofters and cottiers,
Bm
A
Asus4
white [wild? ]settlers galore.
A
[crofter== farmer renting
land]
[cottier == farmer renting land]
Em
D
And up on the hill,
G
A
there's an old sheep that's dying,
Asus4
But it had two new lambs
G
A
born just a fortnight before.
Verse 7
A
Asus4
A
And it's ''allcome willing now,
G
A
Spend a shilling now,
D
G
D
Stack up the back of your
new motor-car.''
A
We'll take pounds,
D
G
francs and dollars from the well-heeled,
A
And And stamps from the
Bm
green shield.
G
A
B
The day of the broadford bazaar.
Outro 1
B
Bsus4
A
B
Bsus4
B
Bsus4
B
Bsus4
B
B
Bsus4
B
B
Bsus4
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