Search

☀️ 🌙 📟

My Songbook

King Kripple by Vivian Stanshall

Chords

Tuning

Standard EADGBE

Difficulty

Intermediate 💪

Rate for accuracy

🎸

0/5 ( votes)

Key: F

e|--------------------------|----------------------|
B|---------5------5-----5---|----------------------|
G|-3/6--7----6-7----6-7-----|-6--5---3-------------|
D|--------------------------|----------------------|
A|--------------------------|----------------------|
E|--------------------------|----------------------|
 
Verse 1:
F
I′ve got a stump-legged lady, To thump out the backbeat bumps.
           Bb                                                          F
I've got a bald-headed bassman, Cos he really hits the ceiling when he jumps.
            C
I've got a fat joan-a player
Oughta hear him howl 'hosanna′ when he swings
       F
He doubles harp and harpsichord, But if he′s feeling bored, For a treble he will double chins.
 
Chorus:
         Bb                                                Dm
I'm king cripple in the band, and everybody is the joker in the pack
            Eb                                               Bb
We′ve got a hunchback drummer
Just in case we get too laid back
            F                                                       Bb   C   F
We say the world's a pavement oyster, So we′re gonna hoist a Union Jack.

Verse 2:
F
The lead guitarist is a pigmy
and shortly he'll quick rig me up a riff
     Bb                                                       F
The roadie gets his rocks off But if he takes his socks off, don′t whiff
               C
They cut his feet off, they're athletic. He's a walking anaesthetic for the blues
         F
And it′s amazing how he sways to the triple band off stage, In his seven inch high, high stamp smelling shoes
 
Verse 3:
F
The audiences panic, When my sax′s schizophrenic blows
        Bb                                                    F
He's a double-headed giant, And he calls himself a Bryant and a May-be
            C                                                              F
You′ll half believe it When he lights up, stuffs two saxes in his gob and goes
 
Chorus:
         Bb                                               Dm
I'm king cripple in the band, and everybody is the joker in the pack
            Eb                                                Bb
We′ve got a hunchback drummer
Just in case we get too laid back
            F                                                      Bb      C     F
We say the world's a pavement oyster, So we′re gonna hoist a Union Jack
 
Outro:
            C                  G
We say the world's a pavement oyster
         C                   F
So we're gonna hoist a Union Jack
 
 
 
************************************
 
| /  Slide up
 
************************************