Guitar & Bass (UK)
May 2005

Generally Major: Colin Moulding Workshop
by Gareth Morgan

Ex. 8

FUNKY TOYS
Our last snipped it based on the almost Pastorius-like groove on Toys from Mummer ('83). This is a bass player totally at ease with his craft, and one who's not afraid to integrate more modern techniques, for the pure quirkiness of much of XTC's material has always left plenty of scope for the boys to play. The double stops comprise the fifth and octave and, if you can't fret them with your third and fourth fingers, simply bar across at the seventh fret. The space is crucial to this one's underlying funk. Enjoy!

Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:21:55 -0400
From: Kevin Brunkhorst <KB305 (at) aol dot com>
Subject: here's Mummer, plus some B-sides
Message-ID: <960726182155_246529032 (at) emout08 dot mail dot aol dot com>

Get your guitar, cue up the CD.
Proud to be on the website, looks good there.
What's next?

Toys

B                        A
Sindys spending too much money on clothes
B                        A
Ken is going back to Gay Bob
the Teddy Bears swear that the neighboorhoods
gone since the moving in of Golliwog
C#                             B
rag doll gets beaten up by the Action man
C#                         B
the one with the real life hair
B                           A
he walks and talks in a commanding voice
    B                     A
but sexually he's not all there

F#      Eb9                 G#m7   C#
Oh dear what can the matter be, my children sweet children
what gives down in the nursery
oh dear what if the cradle falls
F#       Gdim       G#m7  C#
toys are only human after all
   G#m                 G#7
If toys are quarreling amongst themselves
     C#7                       D/E
what hope is there now for the world?

The smell of smoke hanging thick over funland
as the older toys are pushed down a ramp
The microchip master race are melting them down
in a dolly concentration camp
the world's gone mad but in miniature
the kids can only do what they feel
see them copy what their parents have done
'til they're old enough to do it for real