On the 3rd of February 2022, the track was released. The track is from the album The Voltarol Years.
Track Info
- Song: Grafting Haddock In The George
- Artist: Half Man Half Biscuit
- Album: The Voltarol Years
- Released Date: 3 February 2022
Chords Info
- Tuning: Standard(E A D G B E)
- Key: Bm
- Chords: E, G#, A, B, C#m, G, C, D
- BPM: 106
- Suggested Strumming:
- D= Down Stroke, U = Upstroke, N.C= No Chord
[Intro]
E G# A B E G# A B E G# A B E G# A B [Verse]
E G# A B When I was young and the
E G#
Blood pulsed swiftly
A B
Through my veins
E G# A Before age trampling up on youth,
B E
Out of my head
G# A B
With the snows of fifty winters
E G# A I never thought about the future or
B E
What I would become;
G# A
Didn’t care, still don’t
B E C#m G# For as far as I’m aware they don’t
A E G# A B
stitch pockets into shrouds.
G C G C E G# A B E G# A B E G# A B Oh, those Forestry Commission roads,
E G#
What a tale
A B
They could tell. G D C D G D C D [Break]
G D I am the godfather of
C D G D C D
Nothing whatsoever
G Our Martin on the other hand thought
D C D
He was the town cheese
G Purported to deal in
D
Short term solutions
C D
For long-legged men
G He also liked the sound
D C D
Of his own voice.
G He was at Knowsley Safari Park
D
One day where he saw a
C D
Monkey with a banana in one hand
G D And a tin opener in the other,
And he shouted over
C
“Hey, you don’t need the
D
Tin opener for that”
G D To which the monkey replied
C D G
“It’s for the custard, dickhead!”
D It was loft ladders
C D G D C D
What killed our Martin.
G D Larry on the other hand cleans out the
C D
Drains at the Methodist Centre and
G D C D
Wears a permanent smile
G He reckons a contented
D C D G D C D
Mind is a continual feast,
G D When darkness falls
C
I’m as happy as Larry [Coda]
E B A Sometimes I set out for
B E B
Ludlow, sometimes
A B G C G C
I end up in Chepstow
D C G D I am a happy man
C G
I drive the happy van
D C G D I scaled the Matalan
Made it Ma:
E G# A B
Top of the world!
E G# A B E G# A B [Outro]
G C Grafting haddock in the
D G
Back room of the George
G C Grafting haddock in the
D G
Back room of the George
G C Grafting haddock in the
D G C G C G
Back room of the George.
