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                   Living in the Plastic Age – The Buggles
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

The Buggles 
Living in the Plastic Age (1980)
(Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn)

From: "Living in the Plastic Age" (Single, 3:51)
Album Version (5:13) on: "The Age of Plastic"

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CHORDS
           E-A-D-G-B-E
G/B        x-2-0-0-0-3
C/D        x-x-0-0-1-0
Am/G       3-x-2-2-1-0
C/E        0(3)2-0-1-0
A          x-0-7-6-5-5
G/A        x-0-5-4-3-3
F#m/A      x-0-4-2-2-2
Dsus4/F    x-x-3-0-3-3
D/F#       2-x-0-2-3(3)
Fmaj7   (t)1-3-3-2-1-0
G/F        1-x-0-0-0-3

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INTRO
(synth)
| Am | % | % | % |

(melody)
| Am | Am G/B | C | C  G/B G |
| Am | Am G/B | C | % |
| Dm C/D | Dm |


VERSE
Am                         G/B 
Every day my metal friend
C                      G/B G
Shakes my bed at 6am
Am                             G/B 
Then the shiny serving clones
C                      
Run in with my telephones


INTERLUDE
| Dm C/D | Dm | Am | % |


VERSE (part)
Am                           G/B 
Talking fast I make a deal
C                                  G/B G
Buy the fake and sell what’s real
Am                                 Am/G 
What’s this pain here in my chest


BRIDGE
F              C/E
Maybe I should take a rest

Dm  Em  F   G  [A]
Ah, ah, ah, ah, aaah


CHORUS
A               G/A             F#m/A         G/A       [A]
  They send the heart police to put you under cardiac arrest
A             G/A                  F#m/A              G/A                   [Dsus2]
  And as they drag you through the door they tell you that you've failed the test

| Dsus2 Dsus4/F | Dsus2 Dsus4/F |

Dm Em   F  G  
Li-ving in the ...


VERSE
Am                         G/B 
Living in the plastic age
C                         G/B G
Looking only half my age
Am                         G/B 
Hello doctor lift my face
  C 
I wish my skin could stand the pace


INTERLUDE
| Dm C/D | Dm |


VERSE (part)
Am                        G/B 
In my bed I read my mind
  C                                G/B G
Remember how the mice were blind
  Am                                   Am/G 
I watch them fighting in their cage


BRIDGE
F                 C/E
Could this be the plastic age?

| F C/E |

Dm  Em  F   G  [A]
Ah, ah, ah, ah, aaah


CHORUS
A               G/A             F#m/A         G/A       [A]
  They send the heart police to put you under cardiac arrest
A             G/A                  F#m/A              G/A                   [Dsus2]
  And as they drag you through the door they tell you that you've failed the test

| Dsus2 Dsus4/F | Dsus2 Dsus4/F |

Dm Em   F  G  
Li-ving in the ...


MIDDLE 8
Am
Plastic age
G
Plastic age
D/F#
Plastic age

| F C/E | F C/E |

| Dm Em | F G |


CHORUS
A               G/A             F#m/A         G/A       [A]
  They send the heart police to put you under cardiac arrest
A             G/A                  F#m/A              G/A                   [Dsus2]
  And as they drag you through the door they tell you that you've failed the test

| Dsus2 Dsus4/F | Dsus2 Dsus4/F |

Dm Em   F  G  
Li-ving in the ...


CODA
| Am | % | Fmaj7 | % | 
| Am | % | Fmaj7 | % | 

Am
Plastic age
G
Plastic age
D/F#
Plastic age

| F G/F | % | F   G/F F   G/F [A]
              Ah, ah, ah, ah, aaah ...

| A | G/A | F#m/A | G/A |
| A | G/A | F#m/A | G/A |
(repeat and fade)