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Fast Food – guitar crd

Fast Food | guitar crd
By Pete Townshend
>From The Iron Man, 1989
Written by Pete Townshend ©1989 Heavy Metabolics Ltd/Towser Tunes Inc.

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transcribed by                             Whotabs                    
litgo@aol.com        2002-01-12            www.thewho.net/whotabs     
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A5      x02255                                                       
G/A     x00033                                                       
Ebii    xxx8 11 11                                                    
Dbii    xxx699                                                        
Abii    xxx898                                                        
F#ii    xxx676                                                        
                                                                      
                                                                      
|A5    |G/A     |A5      |G       |                                   
                                                                      
||:A5    C  D |A5    C  D  :||

|A5       C    D |
 Fast food
         (Fast food)
|A5          C       D 
 Feed me fast
            (Feed me fast)
         |A5                       C              D
I've been waiting for an aeon
                        (I've been waiting for an aeon)
     |A5                      A7          
And I just won't last
                     (And I just won't last)
      |C    D       |Dsus4 D Dsus2
I want fast food
           |A5
I want food fast

[chorus]

G    D   |A5        G          D
Food fast food, she wants food fast 
|A5    G     D   |A5    G         D   
   She wants fast food, fast food fast

     (D)     (G)       (A)           (D)
No, I haven't booked, I don't want it grilled
     (D)           (G)             (C)          (D)
And I don't want it cooked, I don't even want it killed
       (D)     (F)       (A)      (D)
If it's dead, I heave, it makes me sick
  (D)               (G)         (C)            (A)
So check that it can breathe and bring it to me quick

[repeat verse]
I want food - fast
                 (I want food - fast)
I want fast food
                 (I want fast food)
Frisky little children
               (Frisky little children)
Served up in the nude
                (Served up in the nude)
Keep them coming
            (Keep them coming)
If you want my gratitude
             (If you want my gratitude)
Bring me food - fast
                      (Bring me food - fast)
Now! I want fast food

[repeat chorus]
Food fast food, she wants food fast
She wants fast food, fast food fast

[single notes; arr. for guitar]
|(D)           (F)             (G)           (Bb)
I must say it's gracious                        
                       (I must say it's gracious)
     |(D)    (F)              (D)      (Bb)   
Of you all to multiply
                       (of you all to multiply)
    |(A)   (F#)         (F)  (E)
For I am voracious 
                 (For I am voracious)
           |(Bb)     (Bb)     (F#)     (F) 
And I need a huge supply
                  (and I need a huge supply)
      |(F)     (F#)      (G)      (Ab)
Of organic, bleeding 
                    (Of organic, bleeding)
|(A)         (Bb) (B)         (C)   
  Palpitating swill
                  (Palpitating swill)
  |(C#)      (D)        (Eb)      (E)
I'm ready for feeding 
                    (I'm ready for feeding)
    |(F)          (F#)    (G)          (Ab)    
And I don't want a bill
                    (and I don't want a bill)

I want food - fast
I want fast food
Pretty naked girls
Preferably tattooed
I don't like fiber
Especially barbecued
I want food - fast, yeah
I want fast food

[interlude]
||:B     D  E :||x7

|B      |D   E     |D    E     |B

Long ago I used to grace
Vegetarian restaurants out in space
But here below I looked and saw
You were growing fat on the spoils of war

           |B         D    E
I want food fast
              (I want food fast)
 |B              D         E
I want fast food
              (I want fast food)
         |B       D         E
Pulsating organs
                 (Pulsating organs)
          |B       D          E
Delicately chewed
                  (Delicately chewed)
                 |B               D    E
I want to be like you
                    (I want to be like you)
              |B                 B7
Rapacious and crude
                   (Rapacious and crude)
      |D      E                |Esus4  E
I want food - fast     Fast, ya hear me?
                (I want food - fast    Fast, ya hear me?)
           |B
I want fast food

[chorus]
A    E   |B         A          E
Food fast food, she wants food fast 
|B     A     E   |B     A         E   
   She wants fast food, fast food fast

[single notes; arr. for guitar]
   |(E)               (G)      (A)              (C)
It's great to be down under
                          (It's great to be down under)
       |(E)             (G)       (E)             (C)   
With you slobbering jackeroos
                          (With us slobbering jackeroos)
  |(B)          (Ab)         (G)          (F#)
I'm partial to a chunder
                       (She's partial to a chunder)
   |(C)            (C)      (Ab)           (G) 
Over throbbing kangaroos
                       (Over throbbing kangaroos)
           |(G)   (Ab)             (A)   (Bb)
Now let your women breed
                       (Now let our women breed?)
         |(B)    (C)             (Db)   (D)   
Impale the sacred cow
                      (Impale the sacred cow?)
          |(Eb)       (E)         (F)        (F#)
Because I'm dressed to feed
                            (She's dressed to feed)
       |(G)         (Ab)     (A)         (Bb)    
And I'll breast feed now
                      (She'll breast feed now)
      |Eb5ii      |Dbii
I want food!  Fast food
           |Abii                F#ii
I want fast food, 'cause I'm so hungry

|Eb  F# Ab|Eb      F#   Ab||:Eb     F#  Ab:||[repeat and fade]
 Faaaaaast food  I want fast food, because I'm so hungry, can't you hear me?

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litgo@aol.com

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