Bladderwrack Allowance Chords

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Bladderwrack Allowance by Half Man Half Biscuit is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, B7, F# and B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Intro: E 

verse 1 
   E 
To think you could be sitting watching telly by the fire 

Instead of being subjected to this, 

To think someone suggested you’d be pleasantly surprised 

And wouldn’t feel the need to poo and piss. 
      A          E          A                       E 
Well, blame your partner; direct that flack at your partner 
       A                        E             B7 
Though yes, I’ll accept I’m the focus of your ire. 
A        E          A                   E 
Gail and Sonya have gone down town on a hen night 
         A                   E               B7       E 
And they won’t be back until daylight, one assumes. 

verse 2 
E 
This is like a dream you’ve dreamed you’d dream about one night 

This is where you never want to be, 

This is where some fella standing next to you may shout: 

“Do that one about the Zuiderzee”. 
A         E          A                       E 
Hold your horses; we might play one you’ll relate to 
  A                     E            B7 
A song you could even gyrate to in a while. 
A   E      A                     E 
Ooh baby – sue the dating agency maybe 
     A                              E             B7 
They should have sent you Robert of Blaby, in his Merc (Blaby’s in Leicestershire). 

Intro 
F#         E                          B 
Home sweet home; Facebook, Gogglebox, wine 
F#           E                              B        E 
Who’s Stuart Boam, and why’s he swimming in brine? 

verse 3 
E 
Yes, of course I realise now we’re not your cup of tea 

Even worse it’s late and you’re still here, 

Possibly, just possibly we’ve raised a knowing smile 

Though probably you just need further beer. 
A        E       A                   E 
Mine’s a pint of Thatcher’s Entirely Blameless 
    A                   E                 B7 
And we shall forever be nameless, you and I. 
A        E        A                            E 
Gail and Sonya, I think may have played a joke on ya 
      A                 E          B7                                  F# E  B  F# E  B 
So by way of small consolation I decree: – your ordeal is over here. 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante