Cockpit Dance Mixture

(Partridge)

Ball and Chain

Recordings Art Lyrics Chords and Tablature

Recordings

1. Single version, 6'02.
   Original track recorded for English Settlement.
   Remixed by Andy Partridge.
   Released on 19 March 1982 on the B-side of the Ball and Chain 12" single in the U.K.
   Also available on Rag & Bone Buffet.
   Guest Scientist - Guy The Gorilla

   Andy: “An early attempt, 1982 I think, to dub a song with a dance mix in mind. That was new back then, I like the Guy The Gorilla vocals.”

Art

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Lyrics

Man acting like a farmer and he's treating the woman like a poor cow
He got to treat you better from now
But man is just a baby and he's needing your milk of kindness I vow
To drink as much as you will allow

All the way through history
Man machine, no mystery
All the way through history
Girl have the brain to act just like the weaker sex

Down in the cockpit
Man need the woman to pull him right out of it
Down in the cockpit
Man need the woman to pull him right out of it
Queen wants the castle back from the rascal
Queen wants the castle
Now!

The girl tribe are growing up and filling the world full with a new soul
To get so far they paid a high toll
Try not to make the same mistakes as man has made or you'll fall in that hole
And you will see us changing our role

(Oh! Look what is this creature down in that hole?)
(Some say they were called men.)

(And this is Guy, an adult lowland gorilla, chuckling in the London Zoo.)

Chords and Tablature

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