WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Xtc - The Everyday Story Of Smalltown Chords | Ver. 1
[Intro]
A G+9 D C
[Chorus 1]
G C C/B
Small town snoring under blankets woken by the clank its just the
A D
milkmans dawn round
G C C/B A
Small town hiding under covers the lodgers and the lovers are asleep
D Dmaj7 D
round small town
[Verse 1]
E G+9/A E A Amaj7/G# E G+9/A
Shiney grey black snake of bikes he slithers bearing up the men
A Amaj7/G#
and boys to work
F#m G+9 F#m G
Were standing in poplar lines making alarm clocks thatll wake our wives up
F#m G+9 F#m G+9
Dont ask us we havent the time were racing the hooter thatll signal
F#m C
lifes up
[Chorus 2]
G C C/B A D
Small town crouching in the valley woken by the Sally Army Sunday march round
G C C/B
Small town coughing in the toilet now who on earth would spoil it
A D Dmaj7 D
would they pull down small town?
[Verse 2]
E G+9/A E A Amaj7/G# E G+9/A A Amaj7/G#
If its all the same to you Mrs Progress think Ill drink my Oxo up and get away
F#m G+9 F#m G
Its not that youre repulsive to see in your brand new catalogue nylon nightie
F#m G+9 F#m G+9
Youre too fast for little old me next youll be telling me its 1990
[Bridge]
G D
I have lived here for a thousand years or maybe more
G D
and Ive sheltered all the children who have fought the wars
C Em
and as payment they make love in me
F G A
in squeaky old beds, in bicycle sheds, inside of their heads
B C
as singles and weds, as tories and reds,
D E A G+9 D C D E
and thats how Im fed and thats how Im fed
A D D/Db B
Small town snoring under blankets woken by the clank its just the milkmans
E
dawn round
A D D/Db D
Small town hiding under covers the lodgers and the lovers are asleep round
E
small town
A D D/Db B E
Small town crouching in the valley woken by the Sally Army Sunday march round
A D D/Db
Small town coughing in the toilet now who on earth would spoil it
B E
would they pull down small town?
A+9 G+9 D+9 E+9
Small to....wn small to.....wn