Chord transcription by Dave Jones with help from Ian Chippett.
Notes on chord shapes:
G - F - Bb - A sequence and G - F - Bb - A - B sequence
("The Omega Incabloc...") - if possible use F-shape
or barred-E at appropriate fret (3 for G etc.)
Personal preference here: make the A after Bb an A7.
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B - Ebm7 - A - Dbm7 - G - etc. ("Got more jewels...")
- make B, A, G (and F# later) using F-shape or barred-E.
To make Ebm7, Dbm7, Bm7 - either use a barred-Am7
at the proper fret (6, 4 and 2 respectively)
OR (Pete's method)
For Ebm7 stop top 4 strings at 11th fret with third
finger, reach over to bass E string at 11th fret with
second finger, muting bass A string. For Dbm7, same at
9th fret, and so on.
Pros and cons: Pete's method is more challenging and
more fun, while barred-Am7 lets you descend
gracefully from the 7th fret, one fret at a time.
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Db - Eb - F sequence ("knobs and screws and toggles...")
- a 'barred-A' sequence, starting with the bar at fret 4
and moving up two frets at a time.
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A7sus4 - D string at 2nd fret, B string at third, rest open.
EADGBE
D9 - X54555
D on "drummer" - pull off and hammer on top string 2nd fret
for effect - listen to Pete do it.
(F# bass) - between Em and G play F# on the bass E string.
Try an effect where you let the top strings ring while
strumming the rhythm on the bass strings.
Otherwise normal chord shapes !
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Intro: G, strumming moderately.
G F F
The Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72
Bb A D
Is the only wristwatch for a drummer
Bb A B
It tells true and it ain't no bummer
D9 .....
G F F
The Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72
Bb A B
Can stand for more than mere immersion
Em (F# bass)
It thrives on whiplash, lurch and shock
G (F# bass)
Trad, mainstream, bop and rock
Em A D
Baby Dodds had an early version
D9 .....
G F F
The Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72
Bb A D
Man, what a creation!
Bb A B
It's a mine of information
Em (F# bass)
A vernier scale, the date in braille
G (F# bass)
Sidereal time, the rate of crime
Em A D
And the growth of population
B Ebm7 A Dbm7
It's got more jewels than Princess Grace
G Bm7 F# B
Buckminster Fuller designed the case
B Ebm7 A Dbm7
Leonardo engraved the face
G F# B
And did the calibration
Db
And those knobs and screws and toggles
Eb F / / / /.... G
The imagination boggles
G F F
The Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72
F Bb
Without this timepiece there'd have been
A D
No modern jazz to begin with
Bb A B
Bird and Diz were tricky men for a drummer to sit in with
Em (F# bass)
Max Roach still wears the watch he
G (F# bass)
Wore when bop was new
Em A D
Elvin Jones has two and Buddy Rich wears three
B Ebm7 A Dbm7
One on the right wrist, one on the left
G F# B
And the third one around his knee
D9 .....
G F F
The Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72
Bb A B
Has a warning-bell for free-form playing
Em (F# bass)
That tells you when you're overstaying
G
Your tentative welcome with the paying
A
Customers in the deep decaying
B7
Cellar club with the stained and fraying
C D
Velvet drapes and the stooped and greying
G B7
Owner
Em (F# bass)
It'll count the bars and tell you when
G
The basset-horn's coming in again
A
It'll see you right while you're trading twelves
B7
With a synthesizer played by elves
C
Wear this watch and you'll keep in step
D
With Ornette Coleman and Archie Shepp
A7sus4 D
Why - y - y..why be a loner?
G F F
Get the Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72
Bb A D
It's the only wristwatch for a drummer
Bb A B
It tells true and it ain't no bummer
Em (F# bass)
So any time the brushes shimmer
G (F# bass)
On skins and brass while the solo tenor
Em A D B7
Slowly blows the lazy phrases
Em (F# bass)
You'll catch the golden glimmer
G (F# bass)
Of the wristwatch in the gloom
Em A D
So softly now let's sing its praises
B Ebm7 A Dbm7
For the music in the room
G F# B
Both beautiful and true
B Ebm7 A Dbm7
On plushly hushed extended wings
G F# B / / /
Is flown to me and you..........
D9 / / /
By.....
G F F
The Omega Incabloc Oyster Accutron 72
Bb A D
It's the only wristwatch for a drummer
Bb A
It tells true
(tacet) B .....
and it ain't no bummer
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