Spitting Image - Ive Never Met A Nice South African chords by Television Music

Chords with lyrics

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

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
E minorEm B minorBm A minorAm B minorBm E minorEm


Verse 1:
   E minorEm                  B minorBm
I've travelled this old world of ours from Barnsley to Peru,
     E minorEm              B minorBm
I've had sunshine in the arctic and a swim in Timbuktu,
     E minorEm           B minorBm
I've seen unicorns in Burma and a Yetti in Nepal,
     E minorEm                B minorBm
And I've danced with ten foot pygmies in a Montezuma hall,
   A minorAm       B minorBm     C majorC         D MajorD
I've met the King of China and a working Yorkshire miner -
E minorEm               B minorBm
But I've never met a nice South African!

Chorus 1:
    C majorC      D MajorD     G+G
No he's never met a nice South African,
  C majorC     D MajorD      G+G
And that's not bloody surprising man!
        C majorC    D MajorD     G+G
'Cause we're a bunch of arrogant bastards,
        D MajorD  G+G
Who hate black people!


Verse 2:
 E minorEm                B minorBm
I once got served in Woolies aften less than four week's wait,
   E minorEm                B minorBm
I had lunch with Rowan Atkinson when he paid and wasn't late,
 E minorEm                   B minorBm
I know a public swimming bath where they don't piss in the pool,
 E minorEm                B minorBm
I know a guy who got a job straight after leaving school,
   A minorAm      B minorBm      C majorC       D MajorD
I've met a normal merman, and a fairly modest German -
     E minorEm           B minorBm
But I've never met a nice South African!

Chorus 2:
    C majorC      D MajorD     G+G
No he's never met a nice South African,
  C majorC     D MajorD      G+G
And that's not bloody surprising man!
        C majorC    D MajorD     G+G
'Cause we're a bunch of talentless murderers,
        D MajorD G+G
Who smell like baboons.

Verse 3:
   E minorEm              B minorBm
I've had a close encounter of the twenty-second kind,
    E minorEm              B minorBm
That's when an alien spaceship disappears up your behind,
   E minorEm            B minorBm
I got directory enquiries after less than forty rings,
   E minorEm             B minorBm
I've even heard a decent song by Paul McCartney's Wings,
   A minorAm      B minorBm    C majorC        D MajorD
I've seen a flying pig, in a quite convincing wig,
     E minorEm           B minorBm
But I've never met a nice South African!

Chorus 3:
    C majorC      D MajorD     G+G
No he's never met a nice South African,
  C majorC     D MajorD      G+G
And that's not bloody surprising man!
        C majorC    D MajorD     G+G
'Cause we're a bunch of ignorant loudmouths,
         D MajorD G+G
With no sense of humour.

Verse 4:
   E minorEm                B minorBm
I've met the Loch Ness monster and he looks like Fred Astaire,
    E minorEm           B minorBm
At the BBC in London he's the chief commissionaire,
 E minorEm                B minorBm
I know a place in Glasgow which is rife with daffodillies,
 E minorEm            B minorBm
I met a man in Katmandu who claimed to have two willies,
   A minorAm       B minorBm        C majorC      D MajorD
I've had a nice pot noodle, but I've never had a poodle -
     E minorEm           B minorBm
And I've never met a nice South African.

Chorus 4:
    C majorC      D MajorD     G+G
No he's never met a nice South African,
  C majorC     D MajorD      G+G
And that's not bloody surprising man!
    C majorC      D MajorD    G+G
Because we've never met one either!
 C majorC    D MajorD    G+G        D MajorD         G+G
Except for Breyten Breytenbach, and he's emigrated to Paris. (farts)

Coda:
  C majorC      D MajorD     G+G
Yes he's quite a nice South African,
  C majorC      D MajorD      G+G
And he's hardly ever killed anyone,
  C majorC    D MajorD     G+G
And he's not smelly at all.
             D MajorD G+G
That's why we put him in prison!