Tablature the ballad of peter - XTC

          



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  From jws5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu 

  ~Subject: XTC - The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead

  

  Here it is, long awaited (?) and hopefully accurate.

  

  Some notes:

  

      (1) I figured this out without having the tape player going, so though the

  chord pattern is accurate (pretty much all I-IV-V) I've put this in the key of

  G, which may be different from that on the album.  The important thing is that

  _I_ can sing it in this key.  So there.

      Seriously, though, transposing this would not be a big deal.

  

      (2) There is a surprise A chord (or II chord, made major) in the last

  chorus.  I really feel like there is another "surprise" chord in the rest of

  the choruses, but I can't quite put a finger on it (ha, ha).  The way I've

  printed it here sounds pretty good, though.

  

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  The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead

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         by Andy Partridge

       Album:  XTC "Nonsuch"

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  G                C

  Peter Pumpkinhead came to town

  G                   C

  Spreading wisdom and cash around

  G       G/B          C

  Fed the starving and housed the poor

  G          G/B    C

  Showed the Vatican what gold's for

  

          C      D             Em

  CHORUS: But he made too many enemies

          C      D                Em

          Of the people who would keep us on our knees

          C          D

          Hooray for Peter Pumpkin,

          C               D

          Who'll pray for Peter Pumpkin-

          G     D/F#  C/E  D  C  G/B  D/A  D/F#

          head?

  

  

  Peter Pumpkinhead pulled them all

  Emptied churches and shopping malls

  When he spoke it would raise the roof

  Peter Pumpkinhead told the truth

  

  (CHORUS)

  

  Peter Pumpkinhead put to shame

  Governments who would slur his name

  Plots and sex scandals failed outright

  Peter merely said, "Any kind of love is all all right"

  

  (CHORUS)

  

  Peter Pumpkinhead was too good

  Had him nailed to a chunk of wood

  He died grinning on live TV

  Hanging there he looked a lot like you, and an awful lot like me!

  

          C      D             Em

  (CHORUS)But he made too many enemies

          C      D                Em

          Of the people who would keep us on our knees

          C          D

          Hooray for Peter Pumpkin,

          C               D

          Who'll pray for Peter Pumpkin-

          G     D/F#  C/E  D

          head?       Ah-ah-ah

          C          D

          Hooray for Peter Pumpkin

          C               D

          Who'll pray for Peter Pumpkin

          C          Dsus4  D    C/D    D

          Hooray for Pe  -  ter - Pump - kin -

          G     D/F#  C/E  D

          Head!

             C      G/B          A                D/F#

          Oh my, oh my, don't it make you want to cry, oh!

          G

          (ending)

  

  

  

  

   


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