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Graham Parker - Anniversary - lyrics

Pre>
Thanks to kirk anderson (kanderso@wheatonma.edu) for the chords
Capo at 4
Intro: em, c, em, c, em, c, em, c
Em c em c
This is our first year, no-one else but us here
D c
And even with the darkness all around us
G c
We look into each others eyes and understand
G c
Why true love is in such demand
Ive got a gift wrapped, we have got a course mapped
And everything Ive wanted since I met you
Everything thats haunted me is out of view
G c g
So darlin cant you see, how much I love you on
C em, c, em, c
Our anniversary hmmmmm
D c g c d c am
Whoh oooo ooo ooo ooo whoh oooo ooo ooo ooo
Sax solo: chords on the sax solo go like this:
Em, c, d (two times) and then
Em, c, d c g c g
You got a sweet kiss, oooh you know I need this
I need everything you have to give me
I need you to live with me
So darlin cant you see, how much I love you on
Our anniversary
(chords continue over 4 chorus repeats)
Well darlin cant you see, how much I love you on, our anniversary
Oooh darlin cant you see, how much I love you on, our anniversary hmmmmm
Darlin cant you see, how much I love you on, our anniversary
Well darlin cant you see, how much I love you on, our anniversary
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Graham Parker - Back Door Love - lyrics

Pre>
Intro c c c c
Verse
C am
Ive waited all night jumped all the red lights
F g
Dodged all the turnpikes took all the wrong rights
C am
I pulled up outside made the cat run down the street
F
Washing line hung with sheets
G
The night was dark and sweet oh oh oh oh
Chorus
C am f
Its just a back door love, its just a back door love
C g f g c f g c
Back door loving let nobody shut it out no-one shut it out
Verse
Hey when you touch me baby my treble sounds a little louder
My bass booms a lot brighter my rhythm rocks a little tighter
Oh and I may be wrong to keep the back door love this way
The only reason Im hanging on
To keep the front door folks away oh oh oh oh
Chorus
She give me back door love she give me back door love
Back door loving let nobody shut it out
C
Im going to knock knock on her back door
F g c am
Oh and I dont even know if its right oh yeah
F g f g
But I just feel real nice when you say youll hold me tight
C am f
Oh yeah la la la la la la ...... hey hey yeah
C g f g
(modulates to -------------d
Oh oh oh oh yeah
Bm g
She give me back door love got to give me back door love hey hey yeah
D a g
Back door loving let nobody shut it
D a g
Back door loving let nobody shut it
D a g d
Back door loving let nobody shut it out
D
Dont shut it out dont shut it out baby
D
Dont shut it out lordie lordie lordie lordie
D
Dont shut it out lordie lordie lordie lordie ......... fades
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Graham Parker - Back In Time - lyrics

Pre>intro em am am7
G em
You stop in the old cafe where you used to play pinball
C am
And look for the air-raid shelter but its gone and the cafe seems so
G em
Small and all the gardens that had trees and stolen apples
C am
Now have small businesses flourishing in cinder blocks
G em am c
Then they will call your name and hand you a gold watch
G em am c
Then they will call your name but it doesnt sound like much
G em c am
And youll never discover why its like an old lover
G em am c
You cant touch anymore it doesnt mean much anymore
G em em am am7 em em am am7
When you go back in time back in time
You head down to the local try to find a focal point
A scratch in the wallpaper but its all been wallpapered over
Down at the newsagents its all pornography
And you try to get high again but its like time-lapse photography
Then they will call your name and hand you a medal
Or something more practical like a whistling kettle
And itll test your metal just try to keep grinning
Knowing that this feeling is indulgence worse than sinning
Trying to go back in time
Instrumental section (chords like verse but not as many.)
G em
Photographs with a glossy finish letters lovers never finished
C am (g)
And there in a dusty drawer a necktie you once wore
G em
And a girl you tried to court made you feel about two feet short
C am
Where is she now today? what would she have to say?
G em am c
Then they will call your name and hand you a pension
G em am c
A bottle of pills that guarantee life extension
G em c am
And give you a mention in the local boy makes good section
G em am c
But all the old news is like print stains across your mind
G em em am em em am
When you go back in time
Yes all this old news is just print stains across your mind
When you go back in time, back in time (repeat and fade) /pre>

Graham Parker - Baggage - lyrics

Pre>capo at fret 2 intro em / am / em
Em am em
Come and pick up your baggage its cluttering up my head
Em c am d
There always seems to be a catch to everything youve ever said
Em am em
There always seems to be a lock a belt or a buckle or a key
Em c am d
The world is filling up with stuff I cant even see
Bridge #1
Bm c bm
Its like a mountain of debris that doesnt do anything
F#m g f#m
It just gets deeper than the sea and piles up to the sky ooo ooo
G a
It stops you being where you should be, somewhere else
Come and pick up your baggage. put it on another plane
It complicates the simple things steps on the brakes again and again
Shift it lug it move it on together with your point of view
Its getting hard to separate your baggage from you
Bridge #2
Bm c bm
Its like a virus or a germ that grows and divides and multiplies
F#m g f#m
Then eats your insides like a worm and piles up to the sky ooo ooo
G a
It makes you old and infirm before your time
Come and pick up your baggage
Bridge #1 (1st half)
Come and pick up your baggage its weighing down my heart
You never seem to understand the horse is not the cart
Shift it lug it move it on together with your point of view
Its getting hard to separate your baggage from you
Pick it up /pre>

Graham Parker - And It Shook Me - lyrics

Pre>chorus
G em g em
And it shook me, it shook me up, it shook me up, yeah
G c em
I remember the way you looked when we first met
G c em
There are some things in this world you cant forget
G c d d
You were standing underneath the light I lost my heart, it felt all right
G c em
And it shook me, and Im still shaking now.
I remember rainy nights I thought Id drown
Was it london new york paris or amsterdam
I forget the details no I must admit but you were there through all of it
And it shook me, and Im still shaking now.
Repeat chorus (then) instrumental verse (ends with em / d twice)
Will you hold on and hope our grip dont fail
Sometimes lovers hammer in their own coffin nails
I just read how universes start, continually they blow apart
And it shook me and Im still shaking now.
Some believe in a heaven up above
With a God that forgives all with his great love
Well I forgive you if you forgive me, hey! who needs the third party anyway
And it shook me and Im still shaking now.
Chorus (repeat and fade) /pre>

Graham Parker - Back To Schooldays - lyrics

Pre>e b e
Dont seem to be no break in the line dont seem to be no break boys
E
They ruined my vision screwed up my eyes
B e
Ill tell you what Im gonna do boys
A e
Im going back to schooldays Im going back to schooldays
B e
Im going back to schooldays to put them right
They tell me that it was like a film out here
But its a real horror show boys
They told me that it was all black and white
Theres so many shades I can see boys
Im going back to schooldays Im going back to schooldays
Im going back to schooldays to put them right
A e b
Aint nobody wants to know you when youre down
A b
And everybody wants to lose you when youre found.
Now if I think I might break even I might go home quietly
Ill marry a rich girl but otherwise
Im going to raise hell and rightly.
Im going back to schooldays Im going back to schooldays
Im going back to schooldays to put them right
(instrumental verse with comments)
Shake it! whew! yeah! thats all right!
Now if I seem just a might confused, dont give me all of the blame boys
24 years just obeying the rules, no wonder Im half-insane boys.
Im going back to schooldays Im going back to schooldays
Im going back to schooldays to put them right
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Im going back to schooldays Im a-going back to schooldays
Im going back to schooldays to put them right
Im going back to schooldays Im a-going back to schooldays
Im going back to schooldays to put them right
(fade on) to put them right yeah! to put them right huh! /pre>

Graham Parker - (Too Late) The Smart Bomb - lyrics

This one reminds me of the (later) "Everybody's hand is on the switch".
The chords when they arrive are
GCD G CD G (three times, then)
GCD G CD G CDA
DCG
Too late the smart bomb
I've got to beat the machine
Too late the smart bomb(Too late the smart bomb)
Oooh!
Too late the smart bomb (Too late the smart bomb)
Too late the smart bomb(Too late the smart bomb)
(spoken "mutants, laser, bombs" or some such gibberish)

Graham Parker - A Brand New Book - lyrics

Pre>intro f bb c c f bb c c f bb dm dm
F c bb f
I once read the story of somebodys life I had a few moments to spare
F c bb f
He was a good man who lived with his wife with the usual kids in his hair
Dm g dm g
There was happiness a lot of weirdness and a sprinkle of tragedy
Dm g
I pulled it by chance from a second hand bin
Bb c
But it couldve been written just for me
Chorus
F bb f bb
Because the words came out not twist and shout
F bb c
Cause thats not what a grown man writes about
F bb f bb
That chapters over, let it blow over
F bb c c f
I found that Ive become the owner of a brand new book
F bb c f
A brand new book (then)
F bb c dm
Ive travelled far and Ive travelled wide and I guess Ill be travelling on
Fill another suitcase up with possessions and put on a badfinger song
Ive got much more than most people have and a little less than a few
But you cant measure these things by weight
They either drag you down or they lift you
Repeat chorus (then) bridge
Dm bb f bb
I dont read between the lines Im not ready for what Ill find
Dm bb
I dont believe that love is blind
G g c
It just cant see straight, it just cant see straight oh yeah
C c d
Read all about it, read all about it yeah
F bb c f
A brand new book (twice)
I read that book for an hour or two and then I looked up at the night sky
I saw the big dipper and then the big bopper and I realised how much time had gone by
Every page had something to say but one thing that struck me as true
The clock just keeps ticking as if youre not there
Man it either drags you down or it lifts you chorus
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Graham Parker - A Miracle A Minute - lyrics

Pre> d dm7 a
Intro: bass and drums then, ooh ooohh, ooh oooh, ooh oooh
Then the band come in over ooh ooohh, ooh oooh, ooh oooh
A e a e
When you put your arms around me, the doctor has to operate
A e a e
We get so stuck on each other we just cant separate, too late
Chorus
D d dm7 a
Its a miracle a minute, its a miracle a minute, baby
Its a miracle a minute, its a miracle a minute
Your touch fees like magic fingers on my head
Your kiss is a invitation, an invitation that I read, Im in debt to
Repeat chorus then, instrumental verse, then repeat chorus
It only takes me a second to call you on the phone
You always lift the receiver up I never get a busy tone, cause youre home
Repeat chorus then its a miracle three times.
Instrumental verse, then repeat one ine of chorus
Immaculate conception, revelations come,
It only takes a miracle and youre the only one, the one thats
Repeat chorus twice then fade /pre>

Graham Parker - Bean Counter - Graham Parker - lyrics

Pre>in answer to the question about the groove this song is based on here
Is a rough version. Im not sure if its right nor not. its possibly Ive made
It (the chorus especially) needlessly over-complicated. its probably quite simple
For someone who can actually play a bit.
Intro:
Am / am / am / am / dus2 / dus2 / dus2 / a9
Am 577555
Dsus2 557755
A9 557555
Am / am / am / am / dus2 / dus2 / dus2 / a9
Ci vil is ation
Am / am / am / am / dus2 / dus2 / dus2 / a9
Has come a long way
D7
Out of the mud where chitinous bugs
Am / am / am / am / dus2 / dus2 / dus2 / a9
Eat each other all day
Am / am / am / am / dus2 / dus2 / dus2 / a9
Am / am / am / am / dus2 / dus2 / dus2 / a9
[and so on for all the verses]
Now were in the clouds working overtime for our pay
Countin the numbers and being the bugs that eat each other today
Sitting in an office in a publishing house
Or in a big company working a computer clicking a mouse
Pulling up your file checking your sales
Meeting those quotas and accommodating voters thats the holy grail
Chorus
Am c d d7 dsus2 a9
Cos its a bean counter and if that dont fill you with terr or
Am c d d7 dsus2 a9
Bean counter. takin the human out of the human err or
In a glass tower uptown or downtown
Shes workin every hour runnin through your contract writing your deficit down
Shes downsizing everything including her brain
Snackin on potato chips smackin her lips lickin her pencil again
Chorus repeat
From wall street to hong kong. chinee to chancery lane
Youre being rubber stamped your style is being cramped. it all comes out the same
Theyre not being paid to think. thats not the idea
And they never run out of red ink, get that particularly clear
Chorus repeat
Snackin on potato chips givin you a scan
Deleting your account phasing you out in the trash can
Now if you dont meet projections. if there aint enough zeroes involved
Youll get stamped rejections and then that problem is solved /pre>
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