Local Girls Chords

by Graham Parker
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Difficulty: intermediate
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: no capo
Author autobahn [a] 293.
4 contributors total, last edit on Jul 8, 2022

Chords

D
Bm
G
A
B
E
G#m
C#
F#

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Key: D (and B and F) :)
Author: Graham Parker
Album: Squeezing Out Sparks 1979
Tabbed by Kellie G. (autobahn)
 
 
[Intro]
D  Bm  G  x3, G  A
 
[Verse]
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
 
[Pre-chorus]
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
 
[Verse]
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
 
[Pre-chorus]
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
 
[Chorus]
D                   Bm      G
Don't bother with the local girls
D                   Bm      G
Don't bother with the local girls
D                   Bm      G
Don't bother with the local girls
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 o'clock I got to stop my dreaming at the counter of the store
 
[Instrumental]
(D)               Bm    G
Don't bother with them!
D                 Bm    G
D                 Bm    G     G     A
 
[Verse]
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
 
[Pre-chorus]
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 a couple of times and finish on the D
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bdt341
Riff during the chorus: e --------------------| B --------------------| G ----4-5-7--7--0-----| (x3) D --------------------| A --5-----------------| E --------------------| And then: e ---------------------| B ------3--------5-----| G ----4--------6-------| D --5--------7-----9---| A ---------------------| E ---------------------| ^This segues into the verse (I caught this bit on a live clip Parker did with the Figgs...)
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unicoil
The E and A that you show leading into the chorus should be Em and Am
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