Turned Up Clocked On Laid Off Chords
Turned Up Clocked On Laid Off by Half Man Half Biscuit is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, F#m, Bm and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verse
E A
Watch out world I’m a man at ease, free to do whatever what I want.
E A
Lonely heathland here I come, deathless useless bracken underfoot.
F#m Bm E
Happy days are here again,
F#m Bm
It’s just like I’m fourteen again.
E A
And I can’t cope but don’t tell your mom, not while she’s got Medicine Head on the phone.
E A
I need pills to help me sleep, and I need pills to wake me up as well.
F#m Bm E
Factory Prankster of the Year
F#m Bm
Once upon a time and a half, time and a half.
E A
Turned up (turned up), clocked on (clocked on)
C E
Turned up, clocked on, laid off.
A
Turned up (turned up), clocked on (clocked on)
C E A E A C
Turned up, clocked on, laid off.
Verse
E A
There’s people who can’t spell “weird” right, driving ‘round with thousands in the bank.
E A
But I get by - got a lot on my mind; I get by – got allotments on my mind.
F#m Bm E
The three men I admire most
F#m Bm E
The Father, Son and Mickey Most
F#m Bm E
Took the last train for the coast
F#m Bm
And rendezvoused with Peter Glaze to kill Don Maclean.
E A
Turned up (turned up), clocked on (clocked on)
C E
Turned up, clocked on, laid off.
A
Turned up (turned up), clocked on (clocked on)
C E
Turned up, clocked on, laid off.
C E
Sign on with no hope in your heart
C E
When you walk through a storm, you get wet.