STRANGLERS - "nuclear device" Tablature

Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:20:41 -0400
From: shaun hand <heliocentric@breathe.com>
Subject: s/stranglers/nuclear_device.crd

Worked out and transcribed by Shaun Hand, Birmingham
30th August 2000, 23.10pm
E-mail at Heliocentric@breathe.com
This is all my own work and everything.

This wicked song was released as a single in the UK
in late 1979 and got to 18 in the hit parade but has
probably appeared on some greatest hits things since
and it's worth seeking out - it's got brilliant
lyrics but I'm afraid I ain't allowed to use them,
but I've tried to make it as easy to understand as
possible... Respect to Ediz Sohoglu, master
guitarist and man of many alternate tunings,
if you're out there...

NUCLEAR DEVICE (WIZARD OF AUS)

Chords used:

C: x32010 - in refrain use x3555x
G: 320033 - in refrain use 355433
Am: x02210
G5: 3x0003
D: xx0232
F: 133211
Bb: x1333x

Intro: C - G Am C G5
(first and last...)

Verse: G Am C G5 (x3)
('I'm the wizard of aus' to '..Japan for
a nuclear device')

Chorus: G G D C G
Nuclear device (x2)

G G D C D
Nuclear device

Refrain: F G Bb C (x2)

Verse: G5
('If I could get lucky..' to 'at an incredible
rate')

G Am C G5 (x3)
('Brisbane men stay at home..' to 'sell
Australia the rice)

Chorus

Refrain: F G Bb C (x4)

Middle 8: (This is difficult to work out but it
starts in D and stays there for ages
before going to a C, but it's played on
bass and keyboard and changes a bit too
quickly to dechipher the guitar chords)

Refrain: F G Bb C (x4)

Coda: G5
('If I could get lucky' to 'at an incredible
rate') (x3)
G5
('at an incredible rate') (x8)

F

Spoken:
'Way down ....
....
....

Then 'to the testing range' is repeated ad
nauseum to the fade.