Song: Clean clean
Artist: Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club
Album: English garden
Composers: Trevor Horn, Bruce Woolley & Geoff Downes
Tabbed by DJ
11th June 2015
A synth-pop version was also released by 'Buggles'
a few months after Bruce Woolley's more punky version.
A simple version for acoustic guitar
N.B. I haven't included the extra short piano coda
Capo at 2nd (Sounds in the key of Bm)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Am = x02210 C = x32010 E4 = 022200
G = 320003 D4 = xx0233 E = 022100
G4 = 320013 F = 133211 E7 = 020100
D = xx0232 Dsus2 = xx0230 Bb = x13331
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[Intro]
Am G G4 G D
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[Verse 1]
Am
Pogo and Johnny kicked me in the head,
G G4 G Am
Aiming for the floorboards, but they beat me up in - stead,
Am
Through the ringing of a night before,
C D D4 D
Set the engine's running, gotta pay a call!"
[Verse 2]
Am
Johnny drove the half -track,
G
'Cause we could not find the jeep, wake me in the morning,
G4 G Am
Gotta get some sleep, driving all night out of fear,
C D D4 D
Got it in the ribs every time we changed gear!
[Chorus]
Am
I'm gonna ...take a ride, gonna pick up the team,
Am G F E4 E
Gonna go where we've never been,
Am
I'm gonna ...take a ride, gonna pick up the team,
Am G F
(I'm picking up, picking up the team------!)
F
God, you know, it's hard to keep the fighting...
... clean----!
E7 E E E E7 E E E E7 E E E E
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[Chorus]
Am G F G Am G F
Clean - clean! Clean - clean! Clean - clean! Clean - clean!
[Verse 2]
Am
Pogo and Johnny gonna fight that war,
G G4 G Am
Chaplain in the morning at the local liquor store
Am
Pogo coughing bad from diesel fumes,
C D D4
Johnny, tell the Chaplain, go and polish his tombs, oh -oh -oh!
[Verse 4]
Am G
Lying on the waste ground with a blanket on his face,
G4 G Am
Indicating that he's left the human race,
Am
Helmet open where the world came in,
C D D4 D
Gotta keep your head if you wanna win!
[Chorus]
Am
I'm gonna ...take a ride, gonna pick up the team,
Am G F E4 E
Gonna go where we've never been,
Am
I'm gonna ...take a ride, gonna pick up the team,
Am G F
(I'm picking up, picking up the team------!)
F
God, you know, it's hard to keep the fighting...
... clean----!
E7 E E E E7 E E E E7 E E E E
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[Chorus]
Am G F G Am G F
Clean - clean! Clean - clean! Clean - clean! Clean - clean!
[Bridge]
Am G F
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C Dsus2 E7 E
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[Chorus]
Am G F G Am G F
Clean - clean! Clean - clean! Yeah, clean - clean! Clean - clean!
[Coda]
G Am
Clean - clean! (Lost a million in the very first attack!)
G F
Clean - clean! (Don't you worry, 'cause you know we'll get them back!)
G Am
Clean - clean! (Lost a million in the very first attack!)
G F
Clean - clean! (Don't you worry, 'cause you know we'll get them back!)
Bb Bb Bb Bb
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