Let’s Flood The Fairground
Transpose
INTRO (x2)
D
F#m
VERSE 1
D
Manolo Blahniks
F#m
flank a yellow pool
D
Which grows in splashes on the
F#m
evening kerbside cool
A
In business
G
suit, her skin a
E
gleam
She stands se
D
rene
F#m
D
Was it Human Resources
F#m
or roubles in a hedge
D
That paid for this derangement whose
F#m
fruits run down her legs
A
Now with a
G
beatific
E
smile
She gives a
D
heil
F#m
Bm6
Inside reception all is
C#7
well
Bm6
A guard is watching her, but
C#7
what the hell
Bm6
A frozen wage buys no passion these
C#7
days
Fmaj7
Long as the vocoder
E7
plays
CHORUS 1
Oh
C
let’s flood the
Ddim
fairground
Just to
C
see if they can
Ddim
tell
A
G
shark from a
Ab
showboat
Now there’s
Gm
aliens for
Gm/A#
blaming
A
Gm
Poor folks for de
Gm/A#
faming
A
And a
D9
clown-world to accuse
VERSE 2
Now
D
Lehman Brothers,
F#m
they had a lot of soul
D
Sir Thomas Mair declared, “you’re
F#m
hired!” – the envoys were unknowns
Who
A
couldn’t tell a
G
synagogue from a
E
mosque, and torched the
D
lot
F#m
Bm6
The embassy, a basement
C#7
room
Bm6
Radiation-sick they
C#7
spoke, though not very soon
Bm6
To tattooed wreckage of first-
C#7
wife
blood
Fmaj7
Who dumped them in the Tilbury
E7
mud
CHORUS 2/OUTRO
Oh
C
let’s flood the
Ddim
fairground
Make them
C
dream again of
Ddim
days
When
G
playtime would be
Ab
all
time
There’d be
Bb
no disease or
Ebmaj7
hate crimes
A
Just Brun
Gm
hilde’s golden
Gm/A#
urine
A
And tech
Gm
nology like
Gm/A#
sunshine
A
As they
D9
smoulder ‘mid the waves
Bm6
Em6