Falmouth Electrics chords by Half Man Half Biscuit

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: D

Intro:
D   D
D   D
D   D
D   D
A   D   D

Verse 1:
A                                     D
Seventeen years at Falmouth Electrics
       A                                      D
Then I got made redundant along with everyone else
A                                               D
Some of the other chaps got taken on at the new Morrison’s
     A                                          D
That wasn’t for me though – I wanted somethink anew.
  A                                              D
I bought a ventriloquist dummy from a shop in Redruth
  A                                                      D
I took it on home, pierced it’s ears and back-combed its hay-er!
     A                                        D
With eyeliner on it looked like Pete Murphy a bit
         A                                                         D
He could talk fairly well though he couldn’t pronounce the letter “B”.
  A                                                  D
I said that’s okay lad it makes life much easier for me
   A                                                       D
He said his name was Gary I said d’you mean Barry he said “yeah”
   A                                                   D
We paraded the High Street in Falmouth and went down a storm
     A                                                      D
He’d thought up a catchphrase and he used it as we neared HMV
          A                                          D     D
“Have you got any Gauhaus, have you got any Gauhaus?”         Pschhh...

[Instr]
D   D
D   D
D   D
A   D   D

Verse 2:
A                                           D
All was tremendous between us until it went wrong
   A                                     D
We argued a lot: he demanded a signature song
       A                                                          D
And he mocked me and taunted me and bragged that he’d got all the girls
                D
(“I got all the girls!”)
     A                                                  D     D N.C.
So I lashed him on the fire and that was the end of all that.

Chorus:
G                     A                     D
Bye-bye to Barry, I’m bound for Barbados by boat
G                A                     D
Be-bop-a-Lula Barbados with Barbara by boat
        G                           A                       D
Has the cat got your tongue Barry – have you got nothing to say?
G                        A                           D
Build me up butter bean, Babbacombe and the Bay of Biscay
           G                            A                     D
There’s no twist in the tale here, he’s not coming back in my head
           G                   A                       D
And if you gave me my medicine I’d probably go back to bed
G                  A                  Dmaj7 A D
Seventeen years at Falmouth Electrics.

Outro:
Dmaj7 A D
Dmaj7 A D
Dmaj7 A D
Dmaj7 A D
[repeat to fade]