New Model Army are an English post-punk/alternative rock band formed in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1980 by its lead singer and main composer Justin Sullivan. Their name was taken form Oliver Cromwell's anti-royalist military force.
New Model Army played their first gig in Bradford on October 23rd 1980. Its founding members were Justin Sullivan, Stuart Morrow and Phil Tompkins. The threesome had already been together for a couple of years in a number of Bradford bands with other musicians and singers but in the Autumn of 1980
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Young, Gifted And Skint -----------------------------------
Verse 1 ----------- F# Young, gifted and skint, that's where it ain't
Look how easily it happened, look how easily I fell A Now I'm up to here in debt, there's a noose around my neck F# There's a price upon my head
Verse 2 ----------- F# My past was all in borrowed time, stupid, stupid borrowed time
Now that the deed is done I'm waiting for the axe to fall A Fantasies grow in my brain, run away and start again F# Disappear and change my name
Bridge --------- Bm~C#mBm~C#m Bm~C#mBm~C#m
Chorus ---------- ABC#mA That man was, ah young, gifted and skint BC#mA That man says you know that's where it ain't BC#mA That man says ah go on lend me a quid BC#m That man was....oooohhhh
Mid-section ----------------- F# (14 secs) E (4 secs) F# (4 secs) E (1 sec) F (1 sec) F# (8 secs)
Verse 3 ----------- F# Money makes the world go round, fear makes it turn much faster
Can't pay the rent-man a single thing, don't let the man from the Gas Board in A Maybe this is all a dream, maybe I'll wake up again F# Maybe this could all be clean again . . .
Repeat Bridge and Chorus and end on F# (strum as long a you want) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Sullivan/Morrow) Album:No Rest For The Wicked Track 8 Release date: May 1985
Chords figured out for your pleasure by John C Thomson (A.k.a. Psychedelic Pig) [email protected] Took me awhile to figure this one out. As you may be able to figure I am just starting find my ear, so if there are any mistakes then let me know. Thank to NMA for letting me know that I am not the only one who feels and thinks like It was getting lonely. Ta.