Nuclear Device chords by The Stranglers

Chords with lyrics

Worked out and transcribed by Shaun Hand, Birmingham
 30th August 2000, 23.10pm
E-mail at [email protected]
This is all my own work and everything.

This wicked song was released as a single in the UK
 in late 1979 and got to 18 in the hit parade but has
 probably appeared on some greatest hits things since
 and it's worth seeking out - it's got brilliant
 lyrics but I'm afraid I ain't allowed to use them,
 but I've tried to make it as easy to understand as
 possible... Respect to Ediz Sohoglu, master
 guitarist and man of many alternate tunings,
 if you're out there...

NUCLEAR DEVICE (WIZARD OF AUS)

Chords used:

C: x32010 - in refrain use x3555x
G: 320033 - in refrain use 355433
Am: x02210
G5: 3x0003
D: xx0232
F: 133211
Bb: x1333x

Intro: C majorC - G+G A minorAm C majorC G5G5
     (first and last...)

Verse: G+G A minorAm C majorC G5G5 (x3)
    ('I'm the wizard of aus' to '..Japan for
     a nuclear device')

Chorus: G+G       G+G D MajorD C majorC G+G
    Nuclear device     (x2)

    G+G       G+G D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
    Nuclear device

Refrain: FF G+G Bb majorBb C majorC (x2)

Verse: G5G5
    ('If I could get lucky..' to 'at an incredible
     rate')

    G+G A minorAm C majorC G5G5 (x3)
    ('Brisbane men stay at home..' to 'sell
     Australia the rice)

Chorus

Refrain: FF G+G Bb majorBb C majorC (x4)

Middle 8: (This is difficult to work out but it
      starts in D MajorD and stays there for ages
      before going to a C, but it's played on
      bass and keyboard and changes a bit too
      quickly to dechipher the guitar chords)

Refrain: FF G+G Bb majorBb C majorC (x4)

Coda: G5G5
   ('If I could get lucky' to 'at an incredible
    rate') (x3)
   G5G5
   ('at an incredible rate') (x8)

   FF

   Spoken:
   'Way down ....
   ....
	....

    Then 'to the testing range' is repeated ad
    nauseum to the fade.