Graham Parker Local Girls Lyrics

Local Girls Lyrics

Pre>intro d	 bm	 g (three times) then	 g	 a

B			 e
Sit by my window and look outside
A				 g#m	e
Wonder why a sun don’t shine on me
B				e
What’s wrong with you, you stupid child
A					  g#m	   c#
Don’t you think that I’m the one you’re waiting to see
F#				 b
Don’t talk too much cause she falls for the soft touch
D				 e
Makes her feel everything is secure
G	   a		   d
Don’t ever leave a footprint on the floor


Chorus
D			  bm	g
Don’t bother with the local girls
D			  bm	 g
Don’t bother with the local girls
D 		   bm  g	 g   a
Don’t bother with the local girls

B			 e
She’s probably halfwit she must be straight
A				  g#m	   e
Bound to have a mother who knows nothing but hate
B				e
Don’t want to laugh I’d rather knock her down
A				   g#m	c#
Standing at the bus stop where she waits each morning
F#			b
So isolated that she thinks that the army
D			  e
Is the place where a man oughta be
G		  a		  d
Don’t bother with them they don’t bother me


Repeat chorus (plus)
D			    g
Don’t bother with the.... local girls

Bridge
A		 g		   a 	   g
They got the walk they got the talk right down without a flaw
A	  g		   g 	  a		 d
At six oclock I got to stop my dreaming at the counter of the store
D			bm  g	  d			  bm	 g
Don’t bother with them
D			  bm	g   g  a

B 		    e
Without a doubt I gotta intercept
A			    g#m	    e
Must be time someone went shouted in their ear
B			  e
You look all right in that cheap green dress
A					 g#m	    c#
But every time you swish it round you make me disappear
F#		    b
Yes I’m aware of exactly what I’m doing
D			 e
Making everything a mystery,
G			a	    d
Don’t bother with it, it don’t bother me

Chorus

(3 times) and fade

Here’s the story of this transcription:

Someone (off list) emailed me for the lyrics so I wrote them out and
At the same time I wrote down a couple of the chords. then john
(jhayman@k12s.phast.umass.edu) saw it and made the necessary
Additions and corrections.

For a while we were playing emaj7 instead of e in the first line,
(b) sit by my window and (emaj7) look outside, but the current
Thought is that the e is correct.

John wrote: "in hind sight and sound, emaj7 is wrong and e is right.
Although he’s singing a db, the rhythm guitar is clearly playing a
Dave edmund’s "monkey beat" e." (I play that e at fret 4
(476454))

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