What A Bringdown (Ginger Baker – Mike Taylor)
Opening Riff( Em Em Em Am G G G G D Bm/F# ) x 4 5/4
Verse ¾
Em G Am Am/C Am/D
‘Tators in a jam-jar, Parson's collar in the sky
Em G Am Am/C Am/D
Water in a fountain doesn't get me very high
Em G Am Am
Moby Dick and Albert making out with Captain Bligh
C D
So you know what you know in your head.
G F# Bsus4 B
Will you, won't you, do you, don't you know when a head's dead? What a Bringdown!
Riff( Em Em Em Am G G G G D Bm/F# ) x n
Em G Am Am/C Am/D
Winter leader Lou is grownin', Hampstead's in the north.
Em G Am Am/C Am/D
Betty B's been wearin' daisies since the twenty-fourth.
Em G Am Am
Wears a gunner when there's one more coming forth.
C D
And you know what you know in your head
G F# Bsus4 B
Will you, won't you, do you, don't you wanna go to bed?
What a Bringdown!
Riff( Em Em Em Am G G G G D Bm/F# ) x n
Bridge
C Am G C
There's a tea leaf about in the family.
C Am G C
Full of nothin', their fairy tale
C Am G C
There's a tea leaf a-floatin' now for Rosalie.
D C D B
They'll believe in ding-dong bell.
Riff ( Em Em Em Am G Em Em Em D Bm ) x n
Em G Am Am/C Am/D
Take a butchers at the dodginesses of Old Bill.
Em G Am Am/C Am/D
Aristotle's orchestra are living on the pill.
Em G Am Am
One of them gets very, very prickly when he's ill
C D
And you know what you know in your head.
G F# Bsus4 B
Will you, won't you, do you don't you wanna make more bread? What a Bringdown!
Riff ( Em Em Em Am G G G G D Bm/F# ) x n
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