Swerving The Checkatrade Chords

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Swerving The Checkatrade by Half Man Half Biscuit is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, F7, Dm, Bb, Gm, C7 and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
F
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro: F    F7    F    F7    F    F7    F    F7 

verse 1 
  F 
I heard you walking down our street 
  Dm 
Emphatic boots on massive feet 
  Bb            Gm                C7 
Instinctively I knew what would ensue: 
    F 
I‘d have to strap on my guitar 
    Dm              A 
And tell the people near and far 
     Bb                  C7              F     C7 
“I’d like to swerve the Checkatrade with you”. 


F                         Dm 
 Swerving the Checkatrade, swerving the Checkatrade 
Bb            Gm               C7 
 Swerving the Checkatrade with you 
   F               A 
My heart is like a hand grenade 
   Dm                   Bb 
My head feels like it’s been waylaid 
Gm            C7               F    C7 
 Swerving the Checkatrade with you. 

verse 2 
    F 
I’d followed you for half a mile 
    Dm 
And in what seemed like quite a while 
  Bb             Gm               C7 
I found a way in which to tell it true: 
      F              A 
Oh, I like a pint, I like a brawl 
  Dm               A 
I like a scone but most of all 
    Bb                 C7               F    C7 
I’d like to swerve the Checkatrade with you. 


     F                         Dm 
Yeah, swerving the Checkatrade, swerving the Checkatrade 
Bb         Gm              C7 
 So we may get to bill and coo 
    F                  A 
I’d weighed up all the pro’s and con’s 
   Dm                Bb 
Of watching th’under twenty-ones 
Gm            C7               F    C7 
 Swerving the Checkatrade with you. 

Outro 
    F 
Oh, let me gaze upon your curves 
  Dm               Bb 
Instead of Ipswich Town reserves 
Gm            C7               F    A 
 Swerving the Checkatrade with you…… 
Gm            C7               F    A 
 Swerving the Checkatrade with you…… 
Gm            C7               F 
 Swerving the Checkatrade with you. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante