80 London By Jetpack Chords
80 London By Jetpack by The Magnetic Fields is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, C, G7 and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
verse 1
F
London by Jetpack
C G7
It can be done
F
What we spend on fuel
C G7
We'll make on film
F
From the ICA
C G7
To Abbey Road in seconds
F
On high rooftops
C G7
We'll dance the Twist
F C F G
I spent August in London when
F C G
The New Romantics reigned
F C F G
And though I was oblivious then
F C G
My love has never waned
F C F G
My roots are New Romantic as
F C G
Some critics have complained
verse 2
F
London by Jetpack
C G7
My verse novel
F
When teenagers fly
C G7
They change the sky
F C
It's not the going up
G7
It's not the coming down
F
It's the zooming 'round
C G7
The speed, the sex
F C F G
When I am monarch of the world
F C G
Weighed down by matters weighty
F C F
I'll live in London once more
G F C G
And decree it's 1980
F C F G
That all may dress as Pierrots
F C G
And pirates, like their king
F C F
And all will have jetpacks
G F C G
From club to club we'll go zooming
Outro
F
At the club with no name
C G7
We'll dance again
F
Vivienne Westwood
C G7
Will be my queen
F
There will be no army
C G7
Only the Blitz
F C
It's not the going up
G7
It's not the coming down
F
London by Jetpack
C N.C.
I'll write you yet