Knobheads On Quiz Shows chords by Half Man Half Biscuit

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

INTRO:

E MajorE  E MajorE

VERSE 1:
A augmentedA       D MajorD    A augmentedA
What possessed you to apply,
                  E MajorE
Did your friends with good advice implode?
A augmentedA         D MajorD   A augmentedA
We should hang you up in chains
                 E MajorE
Let you rot beside the ill paved road.
BB
Born too late for the First World War;
                   E MajorE    D MajorD
The Siege of Troy was long before my time.
BB                            E MajorE  D MajorD C majorC B7B7 E MajorE
Naseby, Jutland, Agincourt; characters perhaps from pantomime.

VERSE 2:

A augmentedA        D MajorD     A augmentedA                  E MajorE
Authors, sport, landlocked states; capitals of Europe and their size.
A augmentedA       A augmentedA   A augmentedA                     E MajorE
Breeds of dog; famous dates, kind of hoping these things don’t arise.
 BB
I don’t watch films in black and white
                       E MajorE   D MajorD
The trees and clouds and birds have passed me by.
BB
I’ll just guess and hope I’m right
                   E MajorE   D MajorD C majorC B7B7 E MajorE D MajorD C majorC B7B7 E MajorE
The first man into space was Captain Bligh.

BREAK:

BB                         E MajorE
 Good luck back in work, they’ll’ve heard you were on
BB                     E MajorE
 Have you got the file for Mr Out In Round One?
BB               E MajorE
 Harken a cuckoo - or is it a wren?
BB                E MajorE   D MajorD   E MajorE
 Don’t ever darken our doorstep again..........

VERSE 3:

A augmentedA        D MajorD   A augmentedA                       E MajorE
Truth is beauty, beauty truth, all you know on earth – all you need to know.
A augmentedA   D MajorD  A augmentedA                    E MajorE
Superb, succinct, pity then for you it’s not quite so.
BB                             E MajorE  D MajorD
Hickstead, Hickstead, Hickstead, Hickstead? Duck soup, 1933.
BB
Words beginning with K N O,
             E MajorE D MajorD C majorC B7B7
Words that end in BB H E MajorE A augmentedA D...........

OUTRO:

E MajorE D MajorD C majorC B7B7
E MajorE D MajorD C majorC B7B7
E MajorE D MajorD C majorC B7B7 E MajorE