Drip Fed Fred chords by Madness

Chords with lyrics

Key: C minorCm

🎸 Chorus:
C minorCm
We want Freddie for our leader
          G+G
Freddie is a man of class
G+G
We want Freddie for our leader
                  C minorCm
All stand and raise your champagne glass


🎸 Verse 1:
C minorCm
Gentlemen and assassins and ladies of the night
                  G+G
I call upon you this evening in the hope of shedding some light
G+G
I can't go into detail or finger unfounded fools
                        C minorCm
But there are some here amongst us that are not playing to the rules
C minorCm
I've rounded up the low-life and local CID
                G+G
Offered a free massage or else the third degree
G+G
There is no simple solution in this life we lead
                    C minorCm
So make things easy for yourself to the baronage concede

🎸 Chorus:
C minorCm
We want Freddie for our leader
          G+G
Freddie is a man of class
G+G
We want Freddie for our leader
                  C minorCm  G+G C minorCm
All stand and raise your champagne glass

🎸 Verse 2:
C minorCm
Peace shall not prevail in Purley came the stark warning today
                       G+G
From his hospital bed Drip Fed Fred vowed he was here to stay
G+G                                    C minorCm
"I'll tell you something for nothing", he claimed, "Never in all my nights
    G+G             C minorCm
Have I felt so intimidated by the cheap tactics on display"

Piano 🎸 Solo:
C minorCm  G7G7  C minorCm

🎸 Interlude:
N.C.
Ahh-ah-ah-ah
N.C.
Ahh-ah-ah-ah

🎸 Chorus:
C minorCm
We want Freddie for our leader
          G+G
Freddie is a man of class
G+G
We want Freddie for our leader
                  C minorCm
All stand and raise your champagne glass

🎸 Verse 3:
C minorCm
And approaching the pulpit, the Right Honourable Reverend Greene
C minorCm
"We're gathered here this evening to pay our due respects
                     G+G
To Drip Fed Fred who late last night fell out of his prison bed
G+G
We know the nonce behind it, who slipped the night PD - ooh
      G7G7            C minorCm
The word is out now without doubt you will answer to me"
C minorCm
Gentlemen and assassins and ladies of the night
                  G+G
I call upon you this evening in the hope of shedding new light
G+G
There is a simple solution, one called honour amongst thieves
                   C minorCm
So we'll take pity on your souls and only cap your knees

🎸 Interlude:
N.C.
Ahh-ah-ah-ah
N.C.
Ahh-ah-ah-ah
N.C.
Ahh-ah-ah-ah
N.C.
Ahh-ah-ah-ah

🎸 Chorus:
C minorCm
We want Freddie for our leader
          G+G
Freddie is a man of class
G+G
We want Freddie for our leader
                  C minorCm
All stand and raise your champagne glass
C minorCm
We want Freddie for our leader
          G+G
Freddie is a man of class
G+G
We want Freddie for our leader
                  C minorCm
All stand and raise your champagne glass