{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1761291,"song":"Uncle Joes Mint Balls","artist":"Mike Harding","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11382362-uncle-joes-mint-balls-chords-by-mike-harding/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1761291?type=chord","rating":4.92173,"votes":12,"content":"A 1975 release by the 'Rochdale Cowboy'. Capo on 4 for correct key = E.\r\n\r\nIntro = [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\nVerse 1\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow there’s a place in Wigan a place you all should know[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nA busy little factory where things are all the go[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey don’t make Jakes or Eccles Cakes or things to stick on walls[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut night and day they work away at Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all aglow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGive ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar go[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAway with coughs and sniffles take a few in hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the land[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse 2\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMe dad has always wanted curly hair on his bald head[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSuck an Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball that’s what the doctor said[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSo he got an Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball and sucked it all night long[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen he got up next morning he’d hairs all over his tongue[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all aglow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGive ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar go[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAway with coughs and sniffles take a few in hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the land[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse 3\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMe Uncle Albert passed away from ale upon the brain[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe doctors said that he were dead and would never walk again[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSo they gave the corpse an Uncle Joe’s and then stood back aghast[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                                                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'Cos the corpse jumped up and ran to the pub and spent the insurance brass[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all aglow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGive ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar go[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAway with coughs and sniffles take a few in hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the land[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse 4\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMe granny said me granddad ‘e were gettin’ old and slow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd fire in grandad’s boiler ‘ad gone out long ago[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSo ‘e got an Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball sucked it all the night[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut his hot breath singed her vest and set the bed alight[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all aglow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGive ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar go[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAway with coughs and sniffles take a few in hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the land[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse 5\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe ‘ad a pigeon it were bald and couldn’t fly too fast[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNever won places in the races always come in last[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThough it were bald no feathers at all it won a race one day[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                                                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe give it an Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball and it ran al’t bloody way[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all aglow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGive ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar go[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAway with coughs and sniffles take a few in hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the land[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse 6\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI had a girl her name was May in passion she were lackin’[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFed ‘er with whisky to make ‘er frisky still she wouldn’t get crackin’[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSo I gave her an Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball to get ‘er all aglow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow she combs the streets of Wigan looking for Uncle Joe[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all aglow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGive ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar go[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAway with coughs and sniffles take a few in hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the land[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse 7\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe gave some to the coalman’s ‘orse as it stood in the road[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt gave a cough then beggared off with it’s cart an’ load[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIt ran onto the racecourse going like a bird[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nCovered the track with nutty slack and came first second and third[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all aglow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGive ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar go[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAway with coughs and sniffles take a few in hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the land[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse 8\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe RSPCA have bought six tons of Uncle Joe’s[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo give to all the animules to keep ‘em all aglow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nOur budgie now is six foot tall the cat is eight foot three[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd all the poor brass monkeys are as happy as can be[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all aglow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGive ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar go[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAway with coughs and sniffles take a few in hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                                      [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best....in....all....the.....l..a..n..d[/tab]","plain_text":"A 1975 release by the 'Rochdale Cowboy'. Capo on 4 for correct key = E.\n\nIntro = C\n\nVerse 1\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus \n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 2\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus \n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 3\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus \n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 4\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus \n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 5\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus \n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 6\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus \n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 7\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus \n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 8\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus","chords":["A","E","C","G","F"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}