G                            C              G
Unemployment’s rising in the Chigley end of town

It’s spreading like pneumonia
        C               G
Doesn’t look like going down
                                    C                 G
There’s trouble at the fire station someone’s had the sack
                                                 C              G
And the lads are going to launch a scheme to get rid of Captain Flack


 G```/C`G`  (x2)

                   C             G
Tell PC McGarry to get himself a mate

And arm themselves with CS gas
        C            G
They’re gonna be out late
                                C  G
We’ve had Cant conformism since 1966
                                       C               G
And now subversion’s in the air in the shape of flying bricks


G```/C`G`  (x2)

                                 D       G
Someone get a message through to Captain Snort
                                        D             G
That they’d better start assembling the boys from the fort
                      D            G
And keep Mrs Honeyman right out of sight
                                        D          G
‘Cos there’s going to be a riot down in Trumpton tonight


G```/C`G`  (x4)

                         C             G
All this aristocracy has really got to stop
                                 C         G
We can overthrow the surgery and kidnap Dr Mopp
                                     C                G
And Chippy Minton’s Socialists could storm the Market Square
                                  C          G
And make plans to assassinate our autocratic Mayor


G```/C`G`  (x2)

                                     C                G
Windy Militant leads his Basque-like corn grinders to war
                                              C                   G
With windmill sails and bombs with nails they smash the town hall door
                                    C                 G
But Snorty and his boys arrive with one big erstwhile crew
                             C        G
Whereupon they bring about a military coup


                                 D       G
Someone get a message through to Captain Snort
                                        D             G
That they’d better start assembling the boys from the fort
                      D            G
And keep Mrs Honeyman right out of sight
                                        D          G         G  C  G
‘Cos there’s going to be a riot down in Trumpton tonight