Key: Eb major
Verse 1
Ab
Fm
Ab
Something
always
keeps you scurrying
Eb
Ab
There's additives in the fittles
Bb
Eb
And there's poisons in the air
Db
Eb
There's kids with problem parents
And you can't imagine
To pay the bills
You're getting old, getting fat
Behind the Joneses
Lost your job and a top batch
Bb
Eb
You've got no matches for the gas
Db
Cm
Your head is always aching
Eb
Ab
And the earth is always quaking
Cholesterol, a national front
Traffic jams, a neutron bomb
Afghanistan is rainin' on your holidays
Db
Eb
Deficits and overflows
F
Eb
The hurdles and the undertoes
Ab
Fm
Have we got enough without
Bb
Eb
The nuclear sideshow?
Eb
Ab
The mortgage, the petrol
Bb
Eb
The insurance and the rent
A flutter on the pools
This could be a ruinous event
Alimony by 83 will be on our knees
And the Portuguese will
Bb
Eb
send us foreign aid
Db
Eb
You pay to read the news about inflation
a drop of booze
And little things like clothes,
food, heat, light, rates
And your Mediterranean cruise
Fm
Eb
From dire need to extravagance
Bb
Eb
the nuclear expenses?
Db
Eb
is wearing thin and wearing out
Ab
Adim
Gas and oil are given out,
Bb
Eb
the pop runs out of beer
Db
Eb
Your teeth are full of fillings
and the peace talks disappear
Ab
F
Along with the strike negotiations,
relations with your relations
Cities crumbled
E
Bb
Eb
and there's holes in all the sheets
Db
Cm
Your marriage needs repairing,
Eb
Ab
between the ears
Eb
Bb
Broken -down machines
combine to wear you down
Whatever it is that's getting you down
F
Eb
by breaking up and breaking down
Bb
Eb
without a nuclear meltdown?
Db
Eb
ten don't turn out so nice
Bb
Eb
the bridge across the Tay
Getting married can be great
Eb
F
DC -10s again and again,
DDT, Rolling Point, Concord
Join the army,
Bb
Eb
don't forget your dolk on shield
Db
Eb
There's junctions like spaghetti
Mini Metro, Maxi Hindenburg
They even built a hospital
with an enema room without a
Eb
Bb
loo
Eb
Longadoodledoo
Db
Eb
Guinea pig s of every nation,
Fm
F
Eb
let's announce our abdication
A miss is who?
Eb
Ab
If you find the transportation
Bb
Eb
you can die among the wheels
and choking on your meals
and clubs and knives
In the hands of thugs and mugs
Bb
Eb
of husbands an d their wives
Db
Eb
There's suicide and cancer
drinking all your cares away
Cholera, diphtheria, hysteria,
or snakebite
Plenty of ways of getting faster
Fm
Eb
to the day you breathe your last
Bb
Eb
Ab
without a nuclear disaster
All the things you like to do,
Bb
Eb
the smell of treacle tart
West Ham winning at home,
we're dabbling in the arts
and bacon and egg,
and bacon and egg,
and books, flowers, clouds
Garden men and fishin',
sleepin' in and wishin' you was winning
Bb
Eb
The bonds are simply gazing into space
Db
Ab
Eb
Once upon a time a loaf of bread,
a double bed,
Ab
Eb
a glass of wine, my love and you
that women get their kicks
from watching little heartbeat
Bb
Eb
Doo -da -loo -da -loo
All the good things that attract you,
F
Fm
Eb
don't forget that it's a fact
Bb
Eb
because of a nuclear reactor.
Db
Eb
they could be in the holy book.
Bb
Eb
power from the sun.
Db
Eb
There's energy from outer space,
control the population,
make McDonald's with a soybean.
And all things geothermal,
they're infernal,
Bb
Eb
cause no profits can be made.
Db
Eb
Of course we could share out the wealth,
Ab
but some will say it'd ruin their health.
And recycling all the plastic
and the glass,
the news of the world, the metals,
and the nasty biodegradable things
our institutions,
F
Eb
maybe a little re volution.
Ab
Eb
Just remember that the nuclear way
Eb
Ab
may any day turn out to be
Eb
Ab
a very final solution.
you
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