Biography:
The Wonder Stuff are a band originally based in Stourbridge, in the Black Country, West Midlands, UK.
The original line-up was Miles Hunt (whose uncle Bill Hunt was keyboard player with Wizzard), Malcolm Treece, Rob "The Bass Thing" Jones (d. 1993) and Martin Gilks (d. 2006). The group originated from an earlier collaboration with group members of Pop Will Eat Itself (aka PWEI), called From Eden, which had Miles Hunt on the drums.
In 1990, Martin Bell (aka
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The Wonder Stuff - 'a Great Drinker' off 'Construction for the Modern Moron'
C#6 F#7 A7 Ad7 E7
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INTRO
C#6 x 8
F#7 x 8
A7 x 4
Ad7 x 4
C#6 x 4
C#6
There's sweat on my finger tips
I got a bellyful of beer shits
F#7
My head is too close to the wall
A7
There's blood in my underwear
Ad7
Don't know how I got it there
C#6
Swear I'd bust open my head should I fall
A7 Ad7 C#6 x 4 STOP
Oh yeah
C#6
I know weaker personalities
Cos they're sitting round my house with me
F#7
I got an ever loving wife of a sort
A7
Got a bottle for good company
Ad7
A great drinker and his love could be
C#6
Of all the stupid things I been told
A7 Ad7 C#6 STOP
They took my car
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E/E7
Don't stick it where it don't belong
Don't mend what aint broken
A7 F#7
It's not because I'm strung out on the sauce
E/E7
I'm still picking up the pieces
Of a world that still increasingly
A7 F#7 C#6 x 4 STOP
Likes to know my business what is yours?
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C#6
There's hate where my liver sits
I got cigarettes to pull to bits
F#7
I don't think too much that's bad for my soul
A7
I've got a bottle and a half to go
Ad7
Don't ask me where cos I don't know
C#6
At all
A7 Ad7 C#6 x 4 STOP
One for the road
E/E7
Don't stick it where it don't belong etc..
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There's another bit about "if all the world could wait and see the last drink's gonna be
me" but I don't know that part cos I'm shit.
C#6 F#7 A7 Ad7 E7
E----4-----2-----5-----4-----0-----|
B----6-----2-----5-----4-----3-----|
G----4-----3-----6-----5-----1-----|
D----6-----2-----5-----4-----2-----|
A----4-----4-----7-----6-----2-----|
E----x-----2-----5-----4-----0-----|
INTRO
C#6 x 8
F#7 x 8
A7 x 4
Ad7 x 4
C#6 x 4
C#6
There's sweat on my finger tips
I got a bellyful of beer shits
F#7
My head is too close to the wall
A7
There's blood in my underwear
Ad7
Don't know how I got it there
C#6
Swear I'd bust open my head should I fall
A7 Ad7 C#6 x 4 STOP
Oh yeah
C#6
I know weaker personalities
Cos they're sitting round my house with me
F#7
I got an ever loving wife of a sort
A7
Got a bottle for good company
Ad7
A great drinker and his love could be
C#6
Of all the stupid things I been told
A7 Ad7 C#6 STOP
They took my car
----------------------------------------------
E/E7
Don't stick it where it don't belong
Don't mend what aint broken
A7 F#7
It's not because I'm strung out on the sauce
E/E7
I'm still picking up the pieces
Of a world that still increasingly
A7 F#7 C#6 x 4 STOP
Likes to know my business what is yours?
------------------------------------------------
C#6
There's hate where my liver sits
I got cigarettes to pull to bits
F#7
I don't think too much that's bad for my soul
A7
I've got a bottle and a half to go
Ad7
Don't ask me where cos I don't know
C#6
At all
A7 Ad7 C#6 x 4 STOP
One for the road
E/E7
Don't stick it where it don't belong etc..
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There's another bit about "if all the world could wait and see the last drink's gonna be
me" but I don't know that part cos I'm shit.
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