Graham Parker Lyrics
The Up Escalator
Devil's Sidewalk
Like No Holding Back you can get the main melody (riff) in your head
to play over over the intro ch...
Empty Lives This one has bunch of chords that are easy to play if the capo is at 4. Chords mapped out as if th...
Endless Night (E) A E D A D E Uh, I had the time but I blew it, I ...
Jolie Jolie Graham Parker Intro: A Bm A Bm A Bm A Bm G A There's no remedy G ...
Love without Greed Dsus4 xx0233 Intro D Dsus4 D Dsus4 D Bm G A D Dsus4 D ...
Manoeuvres B E G A B E G A C7 F7 C7 F7 C7 F7 C G7 C7 F...
No Holding Back (Capo at 2) Intro: D A D Dsus4 D Bm Gsus4 D A D ...
Paralysed G 355433 G/B 335433 Intro G G/B C G G/B C G G/B C F ...
Stupefaction Another one I find easier to play with capo at 2. Chords mapped out as if they were open. Intro...
The Beating of Another Heart Intro G Em Bm G C D G D She comes from the hardest town Em ...
Empty Lives This one has bunch of chords that are easy to play if the capo is at 4. Chords mapped out as if th...
Endless Night (E) A E D A D E Uh, I had the time but I blew it, I ...
Jolie Jolie Graham Parker Intro: A Bm A Bm A Bm A Bm G A There's no remedy G ...
Love without Greed Dsus4 xx0233 Intro D Dsus4 D Dsus4 D Bm G A D Dsus4 D ...
Manoeuvres B E G A B E G A C7 F7 C7 F7 C7 F7 C G7 C7 F...
No Holding Back (Capo at 2) Intro: D A D Dsus4 D Bm Gsus4 D A D ...
Paralysed G 355433 G/B 335433 Intro G G/B C G G/B C G G/B C F ...
Stupefaction Another one I find easier to play with capo at 2. Chords mapped out as if they were open. Intro...
The Beating of Another Heart Intro G Em Bm G C D G D She comes from the hardest town Em ...
Heat Treatment
Back door love
Intro C C C C
VERSE
C Am
I've waited all night jumped all the red ligh...
Black honey Thanks to Robert Watson robert@gcmac.demon.co.uk for his corrections. This used to be capo at 2 but ...
Fool's gold Intro as per verse A D A D I been d...
Heat Treatment Thanks to Robert Watson robert@gcmac.demon.co.uk for a complete revision of this chart. Robert's c...
Help me shake it VERSE G I've been sweating I've been fretting G I've been burned and I ain't forgetting C ...
Hotel Chambermaid Thanks to Robert Watson robert@gcmac.demon.co.uk for corrections and the tablature. Intro F# A E ...
Pourin' it all out Intro E D (4 times) (played as Barre chords 7th, 5th fret) VERSE E D ...
Something you're going through Intro as in verse VERSE B A A E F# Take your money and take your tim...
THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY Thanks to "John D.Hayman" <jhayman@k12s.phast.umass.edu> (Jukebox John) Thanks to ...
Turned up too late VERSE G C G G C D G When you get inside my head it just goes emp ...
Black honey Thanks to Robert Watson robert@gcmac.demon.co.uk for his corrections. This used to be capo at 2 but ...
Fool's gold Intro as per verse A D A D I been d...
Heat Treatment Thanks to Robert Watson robert@gcmac.demon.co.uk for a complete revision of this chart. Robert's c...
Help me shake it VERSE G I've been sweating I've been fretting G I've been burned and I ain't forgetting C ...
Hotel Chambermaid Thanks to Robert Watson robert@gcmac.demon.co.uk for corrections and the tablature. Intro F# A E ...
Pourin' it all out Intro E D (4 times) (played as Barre chords 7th, 5th fret) VERSE E D ...
Something you're going through Intro as in verse VERSE B A A E F# Take your money and take your tim...
THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY Thanks to "John D.Hayman" <jhayman@k12s.phast.umass.edu> (Jukebox John) Thanks to ...
Turned up too late VERSE G C G G C D G When you get inside my head it just goes emp ...
Steady Nerves
Black Lincoln Continental
Intro: notes picked out of A and Asus4
A (throughout)
Shake that cocktail and follow the road
The ...
Break Them Down A lot of people helped with the lyrics, notably William Wittman. Thanks WW and everybody! Intro: G...
Canned Laughter Intro F# B A A D A D A Canned laughter, rings in my ears the morn...
Everyone's hand is on the switch Intro: A G (several times) A G A D G Everyone'...
Locked into Green (The subject of this song, William Wittmam informs us, is snooker.) G Dm ...
Lunatic Fringe VERSE IN G G Em I want to thank you for sticking my neck out G ...
Mighty Rivers Intro: The chords I have worked out here consist of two base notes only. Some of them are power chor...
Take Everything B G#m E F# Take every, take every, take everything Take every, take...
The weekend's too short Intro: E then riff E E Eadd9 E7 E6 E (use the pinkie) Get your ca...
Too much time to think Intro: Bm D Bm A E Bm D Bm D E I wanna walk out the doo...
Wake Up (Next To You) I think this is a vamp essentially on A and Dmaj7 which are probably the main chords in "Must b...
When you do that to me Intro: guitar and whip cracks (drum sound) Capo at 2 Am Am When yo...
Break Them Down A lot of people helped with the lyrics, notably William Wittman. Thanks WW and everybody! Intro: G...
Canned Laughter Intro F# B A A D A D A Canned laughter, rings in my ears the morn...
Everyone's hand is on the switch Intro: A G (several times) A G A D G Everyone'...
Locked into Green (The subject of this song, William Wittmam informs us, is snooker.) G Dm ...
Lunatic Fringe VERSE IN G G Em I want to thank you for sticking my neck out G ...
Mighty Rivers Intro: The chords I have worked out here consist of two base notes only. Some of them are power chor...
Take Everything B G#m E F# Take every, take every, take everything Take every, take...
The weekend's too short Intro: E then riff E E Eadd9 E7 E6 E (use the pinkie) Get your ca...
Too much time to think Intro: Bm D Bm A E Bm D Bm D E I wanna walk out the doo...
Wake Up (Next To You) I think this is a vamp essentially on A and Dmaj7 which are probably the main chords in "Must b...
When you do that to me Intro: guitar and whip cracks (drum sound) Capo at 2 Am Am When yo...
Howlin Wind
BACK TO SCHOOLDAYS
E B E
Don't seem to be no break in the line ...
BETWEEN YOU AND ME D Dsus4 D Dsus4 All I knew were the lights in the harbour, D ...
DON'T ASK ME QUESTIONS Lead Guitar intro Em Bm A Em Bm D A Bm then Bm G Bm G ...
GYPSY BLOOD Capo at fret 2 Intro D / D / G / D D / D / A / A D / D / F# / G D / A / D / D G ...
HOWLIN' WIND C G D Em C Bm Am The waterfalls trinkling C Bm Am like bells to my ear C Bm Am ...
LADY DOCTOR Bb F (3 times) G C G C I've got a lady doc...
NOT IF IT PLEASES ME Blues in F (capo at 1) Instrumental verse E E7 If I should stumble down the...
NOTHIN'S GONNA PULL US APART Intro E A E A E A E A D B If you got a will of iron and a ...
SILLY THING E A / E A / E A / E B7 A A E You want me be someone better A ...
SOUL SHOES Intro G C/G (4 times VERSE G C/G G C/G Well I ...
WHITE HONEY Intro C F C F C F C F C F C F C G F G ...
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING Second verse minus the passing chords Hey hey yeah la la la la Oh oh la la la la la la la la la la...
BETWEEN YOU AND ME D Dsus4 D Dsus4 All I knew were the lights in the harbour, D ...
DON'T ASK ME QUESTIONS Lead Guitar intro Em Bm A Em Bm D A Bm then Bm G Bm G ...
GYPSY BLOOD Capo at fret 2 Intro D / D / G / D D / D / A / A D / D / F# / G D / A / D / D G ...
HOWLIN' WIND C G D Em C Bm Am The waterfalls trinkling C Bm Am like bells to my ear C Bm Am ...
LADY DOCTOR Bb F (3 times) G C G C I've got a lady doc...
NOT IF IT PLEASES ME Blues in F (capo at 1) Instrumental verse E E7 If I should stumble down the...
NOTHIN'S GONNA PULL US APART Intro E A E A E A E A D B If you got a will of iron and a ...
SILLY THING E A / E A / E A / E B7 A A E You want me be someone better A ...
SOUL SHOES Intro G C/G (4 times VERSE G C/G G C/G Well I ...
WHITE HONEY Intro C F C F C F C F C F C F C G F G ...
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING Second verse minus the passing chords Hey hey yeah la la la la Oh oh la la la la la la la la la la...
Human Soul
CALL ME YOUR DOCTOR Bm G (twice) E A D G Call me your doctor if you wa...
DADDY'S A POSTMAN E Asus4 A 4 times E Asus4 A E Asus4 A We wake up eve...
DANCING FOR MONEY A F#m When I ask you for a light You don't turn the lights out A ...
EVERYTHING GOES Intro: D then briefly G A (4 times) D G A Another schoolgi...
GREEN MONKEYS E B In a distant street a distant beat Repeats machine gun like ...
I WAS WRONG VERSE A D A I dreamed I was someone special In another li...
LITTLE MISS UNDERSTANDING D G D A D Intro: Understanding Understanding (twice) D ...
MY LOVE'S STRONG Intro A / D A / D (D) A D A D When the wo...
Slash and Burn D A D A The world was stripped of...
SOULTIME D C G (4 times) D C G When I was a boy I never felt The weight I'm feeli...
SUGAR GIVES you ENERGY C# B F# C# (twice) C# B F# ...
YOU GOT THE WORLD (RIGHT WHERE YOU WANT IT) Intro C Cadd9 C Cadd9 C Dm7 As you wash your hair and bathe in Perri...
Squeezing out Sparks
Don't Get Excited Capo at 2 Intro C C C C C D C D C D ...
Local Girls INTRO D Bm G (three times) then G A ...
Love gets you twisted Thanks for Greg Longfield for help with this. Greg Longfield <longfiel@ozemail.com.au> E ...
Mercury Poisoning INTRO C C C G Bb F C G Bb F C G Bb F C G Bb F No more pretending now, the albatross is dying in i...
NOBODY HURTS YOU Riff over E D A E B A E D A D E G I try to pull my weight, study m...
NOBODY HURTS YOU Chords and Tabs
Passion is no ordinary word Intro A E D A E A It worked much better in a fantasy D A ...
Protection Capo at 2 (intro D Em G Em D Em G G C So all of you b...
Saturday Nite is Dead Intro D Dsus4 D Dm D (4 times) A Bm A D E...
Waiting for the UFOs Intro out of the notes in open D D Em G (A) No-one can hide ...
You Can't Be Too Strong (This was originally on the OLGA - sorry I've lost the author credit) Intro- E A B E A B E ...
You Can't Be Too Strong Chords and Tabs
12 Haunted Episodes
DISNEY'S AMERICA Capo at 4 Intro: E A E A VERSE A Amaj7 D A I knew Virginia once ...
FIRST DAY OF SPRING Capo at 4 A B The sky might be massive up above E/A Asus2 ...
FLY Graham Parker Intro Am C (twice) (C) Am C As you look into an invisible landscap...
FORCE OF NATURE This little shuffle climbs and climbs over the circular chord progression. It's fun to play. When I...
HAUNTED EPISODES Capo at 3 /C /B etc mean passing bass notes G C /C /B I wonder wha...
HONEST WORK As long as you give me my pay You'll get your moneys worth I'll be there 8 hours a day I won't hide...
LOVERMAN I can take those riff raff and get them out of your hair Clean up your doorstep and polish your ch...
NEXT PHASE Capo at 4 Intro: G C G C G C G C G C ...
PARTNER FOR LIFE This is reported to be played with open tuning but what tuning exactly I don't know. I have create...
POLLINATE C Dm7 C F C I can feel it in the air I can smell...
SEE YOURSELF surupa nile <grovecenter@saber.net> wrote with some corrections for this one. It is played in...
The Mona Lisa's Sister
Blue Highways Dmaj7: x 0 0 11 10 9 D: x x 0 5 5 7 D6: x x 0 7 7 7 intro: Dmaj7 / D / D6 / Dmaj7 / ...
Cupid Graham Parker/Johnny Nash REFRAIN Cupid draw back your bow And let your arrow flow Straight to my l...
Don't let it break you down Intro: D G (4 times) D G D G Now...
Get Started Start A Fire Thanx Kirk Anderson (kanderso@wheatonma.edu) for chords, he writes: For the basic intro, verse, chor...
I don't know Intro G D G C G D G C I don't know what's b...
I'm just your man E^ as 0 14 14 13 12 0 A~ as 0 7 7 6 5 0 INTRO: E^ / A~ / E^ / A~ / E E A ...
OK Heironymous G C I break a heart in a thousand places, she makes a slur agai...
Success Esus4 E (strummed, then) Intro: Esus4 E B C#m7 Oooh ooooh Oooh ooooh o...
The girl isn't ready Intro A F#m The girl isn't ready (twice) A F#m T...
Under the mask of happiness 005453 005352 224232 x79870 Intro Cmaj7 Em add9 Cmaj7 Bm...
Burning Questions
Here it comes again
Capo at 2
Am
Let's talk about a criminal procedure
Am
throw out the idea of illegal seizure
G ...
Joe Meek's Blues Capo at 2 G My head was swimming in a Bangkok joint Em you got paint on your coat like an ar...
Just like Hermann Hesse Two keys in this song, very tricky intro: A D A E A D E A F C G ...
Long stem rose E C#m F#m B My long stem rose won't sit on the mantelpiece E ...
Love is a Burning Question E A E A E A E A We work through the rituals and...
Mr Tender Capo at 2 E B E A Mr....
Oasis I am a lucky man that's what I think I might come close to the edge but I never sink And I notice th...
Platinum blonde Intro - Country picking oohs G Em C D G Em C ...
Release me F#m whack whack F#m B A F#m F#m B F#m Intro (drums) Na na nah etc ...
SHORT MEMORIES (1992 by Graham Parker, submitted by Kirk Anderson) (kanderso@wheatonma.edu) D ...
Too many knots to untangle Intro D Bm (4 times) D G A I don't understand telepathy, but I...
Worthy of your love If I had the slightest clue as to what you are and what's inside you I would know exactly what to do...
Yesterday's Cloud There's a man in my suitcase, a woman in your clothes Skeletons inside us that dance on hot coals Ca...
Joe Meek's Blues Capo at 2 G My head was swimming in a Bangkok joint Em you got paint on your coat like an ar...
Just like Hermann Hesse Two keys in this song, very tricky intro: A D A E A D E A F C G ...
Long stem rose E C#m F#m B My long stem rose won't sit on the mantelpiece E ...
Love is a Burning Question E A E A E A E A We work through the rituals and...
Mr Tender Capo at 2 E B E A Mr....
Oasis I am a lucky man that's what I think I might come close to the edge but I never sink And I notice th...
Platinum blonde Intro - Country picking oohs G Em C D G Em C ...
Release me F#m whack whack F#m B A F#m F#m B F#m Intro (drums) Na na nah etc ...
SHORT MEMORIES (1992 by Graham Parker, submitted by Kirk Anderson) (kanderso@wheatonma.edu) D ...
Too many knots to untangle Intro D Bm (4 times) D G A I don't understand telepathy, but I...
Worthy of your love If I had the slightest clue as to what you are and what's inside you I would know exactly what to do...
Yesterday's Cloud There's a man in my suitcase, a woman in your clothes Skeletons inside us that dance on hot coals Ca...
Another Grey Area
Big fat zero Intro D A E D A E A Better listen to me, You better...
Can't waste a minute Intro: the notes are e c# b c# c# b (3 times) over an A bass first and then a D bass, so the chords...
Crying for attention Intro F#m E A (3 times then D) (D) A E A Can you hear me? D A ...
Dark side of the bright lights Intro A Asus2 A6 A A (twice) (the notes go c# b f# e c#) A F#m G ...
Fear Not Intro C#m B A B A B C#m C#m E C#m E The dark hand w...
It's all worth nothing alone Bm (4 times) then A G F# Bm Speak to me baby across this room C ...
No more excuses Intro riff The high notes are f# g b f# g c The chords appear to be Em Cmaj7 E C then Em Cm...
TEMPORARY BEAUTY [E,A,E,B / E,A,E,B] [for the intro, play E with an F# added on the high E string, and then a "...
Thankless task Intro E D 4 times then E Bm7 E D E A You can brace yourself for it ...
You hit the spot This groove is Em D Em Bm7 and the other chord is A Em D Em ...
Struck by Lightning
AND IT SHOOK ME CHORUS G Em G Em And it shook me, it shook me ...
CHILDREN and DOGS INTRO: (A) B A E E A A (to get to the first B) B A B ...
GUARDIAN ANGELS 022130 002220 002120 E7 A Amaj7 Your...
OVER THE BORDER (TO AMERICA) A man smokes and a dog stretches A woman works and a kid kvetches I'm ridin' on a road that stretc...
She Wants So Many Things (Struck By Lightning) She Wants So Many Things (G. Parker) Capo 2 INTRO: Em / D/ A/ D (3 times)...
STRONG WINDS Graham Parker Intro G D C G G G D Have you seen her run through the wild th...
TEN GIRLS AGO Intro: E A E A E E A E Bus...
THAT'S WHERE SHE ENDS UP G It's not right the way that y...
THE KID WITH THE BUTTERFLY NET Intro: (Fiddle over) G / C / D / D (twice) G C G C ...
The sun is gonna shine again E B C#m A Someday we will cross a bridge, someday we will s...
THEY MURDERED THE CLOWN INTRO: A Em A Em Gm A Em G D The ringmaster...
WEEPING STATUES Capo at 4 INTRO: Em Am (twice) Em Am Em Am Weeping statu...
WHEN I WAS KING Capo at 2 INTRO: ?? G G C Em When I was King I was not really th...
Wrapping Paper - Graham Parker Intro E / Emaj7 / Amaj7 / B / E E 022100 Emaj7 021100 Amaj7 002120 Asus2 0...
Acid Bubblegum
BEAN COUNTER - Graham Parker In answer to the question about the groove this song is based on here is a rough version. I'm not s...
CHARACTER ASSASSINATION doo doo etc Am She opens up and pulls you in, dabs a napkin on your chin ...
GET OVER IT AND MOVE ON Just looked at this again (26/10/97) and listened to the bass in the chorus which has given me a wa...
GIRL ON THE PIER Graham Parker Intro: G D Em7 C G D Em7 C G D Em7 ...
IMPENETRABLE Intro: Am / Am+9 / Em7 / Dm7 (twice) Am+9 means hammer the B, that is, Am 577555 Am+9 577557 ...
MILK TRAIN Graham Parker Am Dm7 G You know your mam...
OBSESSED WITH ARETHA Intro: Hey ay ay ay etc Em D C Am twice (Am) Em D C ...
SHARPENING AXES Intro b b b b b b c b (then) a a a a a a b a (0ver) Em Dm7 ...
SHE NEVER LET ME DOWN Cmaj7 Bm7 F#m7 Cmaj7 F#7 She never let me down. That's one t...
THEY GOT IT WRONG (AS USUAL) Intro F C G (twice) F C G They took the girl w...
TURN IT INTO HATE The latest I looked at this was the live version on "The Last Rock and Roll Tour" - Graha...
Stick to Me
I'm gonna tear your playhouse down (E Randle) Intro as first line twice Ebm G#m You think you've got i...
New York Shuffle (Spoken) All right, let's do the New York Shuffle (over D) A D A D A D D ...
Problem Child Intro Bass run of d c# b a a b then E B A B / E B A B The fill ( G#m F...
Soul on Ice Intro D Bm D Bm D Bm A F#m Bm E A F#m Bm E Every story to...
Stick to Me Intro- Em C Em C Em C G G Am C ...
The Heat in Harlem C#m I ain't stopping fingers keep bopping F#m B ...
The Raid SLOW INTRO A D A E Where were you when ...
Thunder and Rain Intro C D F Am C D A(nat) Am Am Am G Dm ...
Watch the moon come down Watch the moon come down [Top] [Back to Index] G C In thi...
The Real Macaw
A miracle a minute D Dm7 A Intro: Bass and drums then, Ooh ooohh, Ooh oooh, ooh oooh Then the b...
Anniversary Thanks to Kirk Anderson (kanderso@wheatonma.edu) for the chords Capo at 4 intro: Em, C, Em, C, Em...
Beyond a joke D G It's gone beyond a joke, it's gone beyond a...
Glass Jaw Intro C#m A G#m (three times) then C#m E B I got a real wooden...
I want you back (The Corporation) I want you back (The Corporation) [top] [back to index] Capo at 3 G C ...
Just like a man Intro A D A A D A E A D A D E Just like a man, flexing ...
Last couple on the dance floor E E/G# B F# A People call and ask how we're doin...
Life Gets Better Cmaj9 320010 Dmaj9 xx0220 C Cmaj9, Am, F (four times) Intro oooohs C G C ...
Passive Resistance CApo at 2 C F C Am C F Am G C F Am C F ...
Sounds like chains (The backing vocals at the ends of the lines are sung twice) Intro C#m A (twice) C#m ...
You can't take love for granted Intro Am G (twice) VERSE Dm Am G Am Took her to a...
No album
Crawlin from the wreckage
Crawlin from the wreckage G. Parker
Chords: From David Windhorst <colorg@mindspring.com>
G ...
MUSEUM OF STUPIDITY One day there'll be a museum of stupidity Where we can hang ourselves and throw away the key Along w...
MUSEUM PIECE (Alright, let's do the museum piece!) Elvis P. and Jerry Lee, .. (?). perfect three (?) Gather dus...
Three Martini Lunch This was originally on the OLGA -- this is my version based on that. Sorry I've lost the original a...
Three Martini Lunch Chords and Tabs
MUSEUM OF STUPIDITY One day there'll be a museum of stupidity Where we can hang ourselves and throw away the key Along w...
MUSEUM PIECE (Alright, let's do the museum piece!) Elvis P. and Jerry Lee, .. (?). perfect three (?) Gather dus...
Three Martini Lunch This was originally on the OLGA -- this is my version based on that. Sorry I've lost the original a...
Three Martini Lunch Chords and Tabs
