...MY PINK HALF OF THE DRAINPIPE...
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by Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
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*from 'The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse' (1968)*


*CAPO 3rd FRET*

(Original Key: Bb)


Intro:

G  B, Em  B (x2)

Verse 1:

G                 B          Em    B
 You who speak to me, across the fence,
          G      B  Am, E
Of common sense.
    Am          Am/maj           Am7
How your tomato plant will win a prize;
              Am6              Am   D7           G
Won't that be nice? and by the way... how's your wife?

     C              C+
Your holidays, were spent in Spain,
    Am7                   D7
You went by train; you'll go again.

Verse 2:

G                 B     Em            B
 Have you seen me bullfight poster on the wall?
       G              B        Am     E
Do you know the 'appy memory it re-calls?
         Am            Am/maj     Am7      Am6
Here's a photograph of me with my son, Ted;
          Am               D7           G
That's me cousin, with his hanky on his head!

   C                      C+
We booked in at our 'otel just after two,
          Am7                  D7
And met a family from Bradford that we knew.

Interlude:

G                G7
 Oooh, what melo-dy-a! (Burp!)

Chorus 1:

G        B       Em        B
 My pink half of the drainpipe,
G               B     Am  E
 Separates next door from me.
Am       Am/maj      Am7       Am6
 My pink half of the drainpipe,
    Am   D7 (n.C)    (G)
Oh, Mama!  Belongs to me!

Interlude:

G  B, Em  B (x2)

Sax Solo:

G  B, Em  B, G  B, Am  E
Am  Am/maj, Am7  Am6, Am7  D7, G
C  C+, Am7  D7

Chorus 2:

G        B       Em        B
 My pink half of the drainpipe,
G        B    Am  E
 Semi-de-tach-ed, ah!
Am       Am/maj      Am7       Am6
 My pink half of the drainpipe,
    Am    D7 (n.C)    (G)
Oh, Mama!   Belongs to moi!

Interlude:

G  B, Em  B (x2)

Verse 3:

         G            B         Em    B
I have a sister in To-ronto who's a nurse,
         G            B         Am   E
And I've had a bit of bother laying turf.
     Am        Am/maj               Am7      Am6
It's life, not books that taught me all I've learned,
Am            D7              G
 Woop, in the b'oven, my rice pudding's getting burned!

      C                                C+
'Ere, have you seen the new attachment on me drill?
  Am7                                   D7
I must have the cat put down, 'cos he's ill.

Break:

(n.C)
 Hey, neighbour!

Chorus 3:

G        B       Em        B
 My pink half of the drainpipe,
G      B    Am   E
 I may paint it blue.
Am       Am/maj      Am7       Am6
 My pink half of the drainpipe,
Am        D7 (n.C)
 Keeps me safe from you!...

Interlude:

(Glockenspeil):

G

G                    C                   G
 I'm a wobbly jelly, you're a pink blanc-mange,
C             G       A7                 D7
 I'm a sherry trifle, you're a chocolate sponge.
G                            C                 G
 Your dad wears a paper hat, mine inflates bal-loons,
(n.C)
 Whoops! Boodly boop! (Pop!) Here comes a spoon!

Coda:

G        B       Em        B
 My pink half of the drainpipe,
G          B
 Separates me from,
       Am       E                         Am
The in-credibly fascinating story of your life,
          Am/maj      Am7               Am6
And every day to day event, in all it's minute,
               Am                 D7
And tedious at-tention to detail...

             G
And was it a Thursday or a Wednesday?
    C
Or, oh, no, it wasn't though.
                              C+
Oh, who cares anyway, because I do not.
                           Am7
So Norman if you're normal,
                                          D7
I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.
And I shall baffle you,

     G            B               Em
With cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen,
             B         G               B
Incessant quotations from "Now We Are Six",
                               Em
Through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's,
B             G            B Em     B
 Giant poisoned e-lectric head.   So there...

Outro:

G  B, Em  B (x6)


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------

   G      B    Em      Am      E     Am/maj    Am7

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 320003  224432  022000  x02210  022100  x02110  x02013

   Am6     D7      C       C+      G7      A7

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 x02212  xx0212  x32010  x32110  323000  x02223


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2007 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)