XTC - The Everyday Story Of Smalltown

      [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