Bumpercars

(Partridge)

Homegrown

Recordings Art Lyrics Chords and Tablature

Recordings

1. Demo version, 4'06.
   Released on Homegrown in Japan.
   Also available on Fuzzy Warbles Volume Four.

   Andy: “A Wasp Star reject, that when it first came up, got me all fired to do a complete concept album about life as funfair. Hence ‘It's a fun, fair life.’ 'Twas not to be at this juncture, but I did find a great Johnny and the Hurricanes ‘Rockin' Goose’ tone for the keyboard line. That and ‘Red River Rock’ are the ultimate funfair songs. Taste the cundy floss.”

Art

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Lyrics

Bumpercars
Bumpercars
Drive around in someone else's wheels
On the rented road
Yes sir, no sir,
In your straightest jacket
Couldn't you explode

Bumpercars
Bumpercars

All week sell paint to the plebs
Shy daughters lard white slacks
Kiss me beneath Haunted House
Bells ring and airguns crack
My boss's back

Bumpercars
Bumpercars

Drive around in someone else's wheels
On the rented road
Yes sir, no sir,
In your straightest jacket
You're on overload

Bumpercars (bumper to bumper)
Bumpercars (bumper to bumper)

Take home your Lucky Dip wage
Don't you just hate his wife
Daydream of denting her rear
Then cut her up jacknife
It's a fun-fair life

Bumpercars (bumper to bumper)
Bumpercars (bumper to bumper)

And you know when it's time to change gear
With the speed that the weekend comes
For the boys that we always practise with
For the girls that we always practise with
You'll know when it's time to change gear
Yes you'll know when it's time to change gear

Drive around in tiny little circles
In a souped up tin
Swerve and dodgem until that something snaps
And then you smash 'em in

Bumpercars (bumper to bumper)
Bumpercars (bumper to bumper)
Bumpercars (bumper to bumper)
Bumpercars (bumper to bumper)

[transcribed by John Relph and Steven Graff]

Chords and Tablature

Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 04:28:53 -0400
From: Jefferson Ogata <ogata (at) antibozo dot net>
Subject: New XTC scores
Message-ID: <416109C5.8030708 (at) antibozo dot net>

"Bungalow" and "Bumpercars" scores (PDF)

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