Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes Chords

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Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes by Half Man Half Biscuit is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of B. It uses the chords B7, E and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
B
Text
16
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B7            E 
     There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves  
                                           B7 
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves 
         E                     A 
With the possible exception of being Garth Crooks 
         E              B7                 E 
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves. 

Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin? 
                                              B7 
Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin? 
            E                                 A 
When you're holding tea and toast and there's no one else about 
       E                  B7                  E 
Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin? 

When you're down beside the lake you're bound to hear 
                                                 B7 
When you're down beside the lake you're bound to hear 
            E                                    A 
When you're down beside the lake you're bound to hear somebody say 
E                  B7                  E 
"Careful now, that swan can break your arm". 

Oh, before the gods that made the gods were born 
                                            B7 
Yes before the gods that made the gods were born 
      E                                     A 
Yes before the gods that made the gods woke up and made the gods 
E                   B7    A                   E 
That's when you got into, that's when you got into 
                            B7           E 
Yeah, that's when you first got into the Manics 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante