Song: Bedbugs & ballyhoo
Artist: Echo & the Bunnymen
Composers: Will Sergeant, Ian McCulloch,
Les Pattison & Pete de Freitas
Album: Bring on the dancing horses
Tabbed by DJ
12th Mar 2015
Based on the version used on the 12" single and the 'Bring on the
dancing horses' album. The self-named 'Echo & the Bunnymen' album
version has Ray Manzarek adding some additional keyboard elements.
Video performance at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr0Oz8rMmIM&list=RDnr0Oz8rMmIM#t=45
D = xx0232 A = x02220 Dm7/A = x00565 or x00211
F = 133211 Asus4 = x02230 G/A = x00787 or x00433
G = 355433 A7 = x02020
Apart from the Choruses, you could play the D-F-G progression all
the way through, but using the Dm7/A and G/A gives a feel of what
the Keyboards/Strings are doing and adds some variety.
*******************************************************************
[Intro]
2 bars drums
4 bars bass guitar
D F G D F G
||: / / / / | / / / / :|| [x2]
[Verse 1]
D F G D F G
Buffalo and bison, bison and buffa - lo,
D F G D F G
Cannonball and rifle, rifle and cannon - ball,
D F G
That's the way the thunder rumbles,
D F G
That's the way the thunder rumbles...
D F G D F G
| / / / / | ...rumbles!
[Chorus]
A Asus4 A Asus4 A7
Down on your knees a - gain, saying please a - gain,
D F G
Yeah, yeah, yeah---!
D F G D F G D F G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 2]
D F G D F G
Kangaroos and chipmunks, chipmunks and kanga - roos,
D F G D F G
Ballyhoo and bedbugs, bedbugs and bally - hoo,
Dm7/A
That's the way the bee bumbles,
G/A
That's the way the bee bumbles,
Dm7/A
That's the way the bee bumbles,
G/A Dm7/A G/A Dm7/A G/A
That's the way the bee bumbles------, ...bumbles!
[Chorus]
A Asus4 A Asus4 A7
Down on your knees a - gain, saying please a - gain,
D F G
No, no, no----!
D F G D F G D F G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Break]
D F G D F G
||: / / / / | / / / / :||[x2]
[Drum break -(mute strings and scrub rhythm)]
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :||[x2]
Dm7/A G/A
||: / / / / | / / / / :||[x3]
[Chorus]
A Asus4 A Asus4 A7
Down on your knees a - gain, saying please a - gain,
A Asus4 A Asus4 A7
Down on your knees a - gain, saying please a - gain,
Dm7/A G/A
No, no, no----! | / / / / |
Dm7/A G/A
| / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 3]
Dm7/A G/A
Buffalo and bison, bison and buffalo,
Dm7/A G/A
Cannonball and rifle, rifle and cannonball,
Dm7/A
That's the way the thunder rumbles,
G/A
That's the way the thunder rumbles,
Dm7/A G/A Dm7/A G/A
Rumbles, ...rumbles, ...rumbles, ...rumble!
[Coda]
Dm7/A G/A Dm7/A
||: / / / / | / / / / :||[x4] | / ||
