LITTLE TIME BOMB
WORKERS PLAYTIME- 1988
WORDS and MUSIC: Billy Bragg 1988

Notes:    From OLGA with some of my own modifications.
                Corrections welcomed.

                All open chords. For some parts I like to play  full open G and C chords and to fill out the D with a Dsus4.
                You have to play along with the record and find what you like best.

          C         G                  Dsus4            Cmaj9
E --3----3--------x---------x-
A --3----2--------x---------2-
D --o----o--------o---------o-
G --o----o--------2---------o-
B --1----3--------3---------1-
e --o----3--------2---------o-
 
 

Chords:

G
One's of them off her food
C                 G                          (run down to Em on E string  - G F# Em)
And the other one's off his head
     Em                 G           D (fill with Dsus4 D)
And both of them are off down the boozer
C            G
To drink a toast
C             G                        (run down to Em on E string  - G F# Em)
To the one that he hates most
         Em               G            D      G
And she says there are no winner, only losers
 
 

G                 Em
Well if there are no winners
      C             G                (run down to Em on E string  - G F# Em)
Then what is this he thinks
        Em             G                D        (fill with Dsus4 D)
As he watches her complete a lap of honour
C                    G
And he sits in the stands
         C           G            (run down to Em on E string  - G F# Em)
With his head in his hands
          Em                 G
And he thinks of all the things
             D              G
He'd like to bring down upon her
 
 

G                   Em                 C          G
Revenge will bring cold comfort in this darkest hour
           G      C          D        G              (run down to Em on E string  - G F# Em)
As the jukebox says 'It's All Over Now'
           Em            G
And he stands and he screams
              C      G
What have I done wrong
      D           Em           C         G
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
      D           Em           C         G
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
 
 

C     Cmaj9      Am     G
In public he's such a man
        C              Cmaj9     Am          G
He's punching at the walls with his bare and bloody hands
        C             Cmaj9     Am     G
He's screaming and shouting and acting crazy
         C                      D
But at home he sits alone and he cries like a baby
 
 

   G             Em         C        G
He holds your letters but he can't read them
        G                 C     D       G                  (run down to Em on E string  - G F# Em)
As he fights this loneliness that you call freedom
        Em            G           C           G
You said this would happen and you were not wrong
       D        Em               C       G
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb
       D        Em               C       G
I've fallen in love with a little time bomb

To end
G   Em  C  G
G   C    D  G (run down to Em on E string  - G F# Em)
Em G   C  G
D   Em C  G
D   Em C  G