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I Am Kloot - Junk Culture Chords

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Junk Culture Chords

(ver. 1)
I Am Kloot

Released originally in 1989 as Johnny Dangerously, on the EP You, Me And The Alarm Clock. 

Re-released on iTunes under the I Am Kloot name in 2012.

 
Riff1
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E ---0---------------|
B ---1----3----3----0|
G ---1----1----1----1|
D --------2----2----2|
A -------------------|
E 0----0-----0---0---|


Chords
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A         x02220
E         022100
Esus      022200
D         xx0232
D/F#      2xx232
E/G#      4x2400


Intro 
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A  E  D  E  D  D/F#  E/G#


Verse 1
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A                              E
  Stumbling through small life nowhere England
        D                            E
Shaking hands with the big town life idiots 
      D                      E            Riff1
I was trying to pick up some ordinariness
         D            D/F#   E/G#    A

E  D  D/F# E/G#


Verse 2
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A                                E
  Sweeping through middle town A-merica
              D               E
Stepping into fact or fiction trash TV world
D                            E            Riff1
  Caught a glimpse of myself scr*ping and laughing
D                 D/F#   E/G#     A
Shuffling about a-mongst the news-paper
E                 D       D/F#   E/G#     A
 Amongst the news-paper a-mongst the news-paper
E                 D       D/F#   E/G#
 Amongst the news-paper


Verse 3
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A                              E
  Cellophane wrapped processed lumps of meat
         D                      E
Queueing up in the morning town traffic
       D                          E            Riff1
Whilst smashing shop front girl a-ssistants into splinters
D            D/F#      E/G#      A 
With that new   sledge-hammer in-difference

E  D  D/F#  E/G#


Verse 4
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A                            E
  Picking up a detail from a muscle magazine
       D                         E
Whilst talking to someone else's wife
                   D                 E         Riff1
And wondering do I really care about sheet metal workers
        D             D/F#        E/G#      A
Saw you looking though  your shop window re-flection
E                D       D/F#   E/G#      A
  Shop window re-flection  shop window re-flection
E                D       D/F#   E/G#
  Shop window re-flection


Verse 5
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A                         E
  Some run down amusement arcade humour
     D                      E
Like cheap beer and instant coffee was pouring out
D               E        Riff1
Over the city's pavements
        D                  D/F# E/G#         A
Calling closing time on that    cinema queue fervour

E  D  D/F# E/G#


Verse 6 / Out
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A                       E
  Thursday night on the railway lines
            D                       E
As life and death burnt away in the distance and
  D                  E           Riff1
A million TV screens close their weary eyes
D                D/F# E/G#     A
Don't you know me     I   know you
E        D  D/F# E/G#     A
  I know you     I   know you
E        D  D/F# E/G#     A
  I know you     I   know you
E        D  D/F# E/G#     A
  I know you     I   know you
E        D  D/F# E/G#     A
  I know you     I   know you (repeat to fade)




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I hope I've done it justice!

Kevin O'Brien
Watford
England
January 2014
            
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