Tom: G
G C G
Unemployment’s rising in the Chigley end of town
It’s spreading like pneumonia
C G
Doesn’t look like going down
C G
There’s trouble at the fire station someone’s had the sack
C G
And the lads are going to launch a scheme to get rid of Captain Flack
G```/C`G` (x2)
C G
Tell PC McGarry to get himself a mate
And arm themselves with CS gas
C G
They’re gonna be out late
C G
We’ve had Cant conformism since 1966
C G
And now subversion’s in the air in the shape of flying bricks
G```/C`G` (x2)
D G
Someone get a message through to Captain Snort
D G
That they’d better start assembling the boys from the fort
D G
And keep Mrs Honeyman right out of sight
D G
‘Cos there’s going to be a riot down in Trumpton tonight
G```/C`G` (x4)
C G
All this aristocracy has really got to stop
C G
We can overthrow the surgery and kidnap Dr Mopp
C G
And Chippy Minton’s Socialists could storm the Market Square
C G
And make plans to assassinate our autocratic Mayor
G```/C`G` (x2)
C G
Windy Militant leads his Basque-like corn grinders to war
C G
With windmill sails and bombs with nails they smash the town hall door
C G
But Snorty and his boys arrive with one big erstwhile crew
C G
Whereupon they bring about a military coup
D G
Someone get a message through to Captain Snort
D G
That they’d better start assembling the boys from the fort
D G
And keep Mrs Honeyman right out of sight
D G G C G
‘Cos there’s going to be a riot down in Trumpton tonight
