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Song title:       Clockwork Creep
Original Album:   Sheet Music

Words and Music by Kevin Godley and Lol Creme
Copyright © 1974 UK Records
Published by UK Records

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Standard tuning; timing is 4/4.


INTRO:
Notes:
The intro is a two-note piano part imitating a ticking clock.
This can be emulated on guitar thus:

Guitar Figure 1 (notes are sixteenths)

|------14----14----14----14---|
|-----------------------------|
|*--11----11----11----11-----*|
|*---------------------------*|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|

[Play Guitar Figure 1]   [x4]


VERSE:
Chords:
F#5   244xxx
G#5   466xxx
A5    577xxx
B5    799xxx
C#5   9 11 11 xxx

      F#5                   G#5
I'm a clockwork creep and I can't get to sleep
     A5             B5     C#5
They wind me up and let me go
      F#5                 G#5
And I can't unwind, going out of my mind
   A5             B5       C#5
My time is coming soon you know
                          (Tick a tick a time bomb,
N.C.
Tick a tick a time bomb,
Tick a tick a time bomb)


VERSE:
I'm a jumbo jet with a brand new set
Of passengers and bags and crew
I'll spread my wings - do a thousand things
To prove how good I am to you”
                         (Tick a tick a time bomb,
N.C.
Tick a tick a time bomb,
Tick a tick a time bomb)

(Tick a tick a time bomb,
Tick a tick a time bomb,
Tick a tick a time bomb)


BRIDGE:
Chords:
Gm   x 10 12 12 11 10
F    x8 10 10 10 8
C    8 10 10 988
Dm   x57765
Am   x02210
G    320033
F    x33211

Gm                    
Meanwhile in the cargo of escargot,
                   F                            C               
The temperature is rising, advertising that our time is running down,
 A     G     A     D
(Down, down, down, down)

Dm                C
Oh, with just one minute to live
Am                                      G
Oh, no you'll never get me up in one of these again
     F
'Cos what goes up must come

C     A     G     A     D
Down, down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down, down

Dm      C                  Dm
Oh, the gravity of the situation
     C
It's only my willpower that keeps this thing in operation
          Dm                     Am
But we're gonna crash that's for certain
    Dm                Am
The pilot is too busy flirtin'
       C                          Bb
And he ain't aware that there's a bomb down there
          Em                      F  G
And if he don't do something it's curtains


VERSE:
“Now just hold on,” said the little bomb,
“If you were just to hold my hands
Then time would stop, the plot would flop
And jumbo would be safe to land”
                          (Tick a tick a time bomb,
N.C.
Tick a tick a time bomb,
Tick a tick a time bomb)


BRIDGE2:
   Cm               Dm        Cm
My landings are the envy of Sabena and Pan Am, Chattanooga to Japan,
  Cm               Eb
I taxi through the airways
                                 C#
What a safe little plane, what a fine little plane
       C
What a great little plane, I am


VERSE:
“Hang on one sec, I'm a clockwork wreck
And though my fuse is burning slow
Must keep my date to detonate
Goodbye, ta ta, and cheerio"

(Tick a tick a time bomb
Tick a tick a time bomb
Tick a tick a time bomb)

(Tick a tick a time bomb
Tick a tick a time bomb
Tick a tick a time bomb)

(Tick a tick a time bomb
Tick a tick a time bomb
Tick a tick a time bomb)

(Tick a...”)