Chalkhills: Reel by Real: XTC: "English Roundabout"

e n g l i s h   r o u n d a b o u t
pp  pppp
pppp    pp eople rushing round with no time to spare.  I'm so
pp       pp dizzy I'm neither here nor there, in this traffic
pp pp   pp jam  I  just  want  to  shout  let  me off o' this
pp   ppp english roundabout  english roundabout   and all the
pp  the horns go 'beep! beep!'     all the people follow like
sheep I'm   full of   light    and  sound making    my   head
go round,  round. everyone  is  cursing  under   their breath
I'm  a passenger, I feel   close  to death hopeless situation
I  have no   doubt  stop  the  madness,  english   roundabout
english  roundabout  and  all the   cars   go 'brum!   brum!'
and  in   my ears I   feel  a  hum the neons    blind my eyes
all   those  tempers    rise,  rise.   cars     and buses  go,
puffing  out their   smoke roll  my   window   down,  I begin
to  choke   I  have had enough,   I  just  want   to get  out
let me off o'  this  english  roundabout  english  roundabout.

colin-lead and   backing vocals,  fretless   bass, percussion
andy-electric  and  amplified     acoustic   guitars, backing
vocals  dave-electric    12-string     guitar,      prophet V
terry-drums                           composed by c. moulding

Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:09:52 +0100
From: Jordi Ibáñez Llauradó <lohagoporelmessenger (at) hotmail dot com>
Subject: xtc songs
Message-ID: <BAY113-F11D978375E7EAC7A754B66DA390 (at) phx dot gbl>

OK, my first posting. please be gentle. i just want to say that
that's been done with no keyboard or organ at hand, so i can't
be more precise about the chords. that's why here you'll only
find the basic chords: it's up to you, people that can write,
read and dissect chords, to finish this work. so here it goes,
all the songs in the XTC catalogue that hadn't been tabbed in
this great site, from "black sea" to "nonsuch". you won't find
anything from "mummer" because the whole album has already been
"chorded" in this site.

don't expect any riffs or arpeggios, BTW. that's as far as my
skills go...

maybe i should be ashamed to post something like this (so
incomplete, wrong and childish) but it's just for the sake of
people who just want to strum XTC songs and sing and don't care
much if this is a sus4, added or other bollocks chord (and i must
point that i am one of those who really care, so i'm willing to
read all kinds of comments and corrections). please, john relph,
erase every transcription of mine as soon as a proper tab of each
song made by any other XTC fan who's more trained on guitar than me
comes to your mail.

songs like "the somnambulist" or "seagulls..." were meant to be
played on keyboards and sound terrible on guitar. beware!

ENGLISH ROUNDABOUT
verse/chorus: F-C-D#-Bb
bridge: D-Bm
middle 8: E-B-D-A

--
hope that will be useful for somebody.
merry Xmas!
feedback welcome at jordiibanez (at) mixmail dot com
                 or lohagoporelmessenger (at) hotmail dot com

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