BOUNCING BOMB - TWISTED WHEEL
This is a very simple song but deserved to be up here as i think it's their best one. I
out a video of Jonny at Glasto so i think it's 100% correct.
When changing from G to Em, there is a transition chord which you strum just once so it goes:
G * Em
3-3-3-3-0-0-|
3-3-3-3-0-0-|
0-0-0-0-0-0-|
0-0-0-0-2-2-|
2-2-2-0-2-2-|
3-3-3-2-0-0-|
Capo 2nd fret
G Em x3
CAmGEm
Jimmy Lee, chip pan grease
GEm
Set fire to the school canteen
GEm
All the children had to leave
C
They missed school for a day
Am
The teachers still got paid
GEm
Ivan the Terrible
GEm
Looks after some animals
GEm
Turkeys and highland cattle
C
He sells them for their meat
Am
He?s a farmer on his feet
GEm
Sitting on the railway line
GEm
Scaring all the passers by
GEm
Stars and stripes flash in their eyes
C
Scared the kids off the bus
Am
Driver gave no fuss
GEm
Lives his life so dangerously
GEm
Goes by the name of American Steve
GEm
Keeps some hammers up his sleeve
C
He?s a man you?d like to meet
Am
But don?t give him no cheek, don?t give him no cheek
Em
We wont forget your face, no we wont forget your face
D
Sit and watch the world all day
Em
When you have done one, you?ll go like the bouncing bomb
D
And you?ll bounce bounce bounce and you?ll free the dam
CAm
When you have to go
CAm
When you?re dead and gone
CD
The bouncing bomb will be remembered
GEm
John the landlord takes no slack
GEm
He don?t care if you never come back
GEm
Sits down with a black bin bag
C
It?s full of CDs
Am
He?ll give you one for free
GEm
Hazel sits down by the bar
GEm
Drinking beer and Advakat
GEm
Has to sneak out for her tar
C
She thinks no one knows she smokes
Am
Little does she know, little do we know
Em
We wont forget your face, no we wont forget your face
D
Sit and watch the world all day
Em
When you have done one, you?ll go like the bouncing bomb
D
And you?ll bounce bounce bounce and you?ll free the dam
CAm
When you have to go
CAm
When you?re dead and gone
CD
The bouncing bomb will be remembered
GEm
Wendy walks the roads all day
GEm
Lost her house, she lost her way
GEm
Scarf, coat and anorak
C
She?s looking for her man
Am
She knows she never can
GEm
Don?t forget about Steve the mean
GEm
Kept his money in a submarine
GEm
He?d been shaking money trees
C*(one strum)
He was an entrepreneur
Am*
But no one really cared
G*
They just sit back and stare