Blues In Bob Minor

Em Em Am Em Am C Bm Am/F

[Verse 1]
Em
 ^ Roger's in the archive looking up
 casement, Martha's in the 
government ^ digging up the 
basement.
Em
Rebel into representative for the 
voter. ^ Shadow backbencher couldn't
 get a word in.
Am
 ^ Turned up anyway, issues burning.
 ^ All consuming, drinks in the 
cabinet
Em
 ^ Spent a lot of time just 
examining the building. Drinks on 
the house? You must be joking
C                            
 ^ Corridors of power cuts toy 
                  Bm
telephone bill. Long time no see 
underneath the floorboard
Am
 ^ Looking for the roots of the 
family treetops. Toe's in the water 
but you've only got ten.
Em
Fingers in the eel pie, poke around 
tip top. ^ Tunnelling a wormhole 
Eartha Kitty catfish.
Em
 ^ Meadow brown peacock, 
pupa-larva-caterpillar, hibernate in
 winter of our discotheque. No
Am
End in sight. More like a spiral ^ 
coil or curler just unwinding
Em
Very slowly ^ revealing endless 
disappearing pipelines
C                               
Genuflecting, bowing deeply. It 
Bm
don't take a weathergirl to see 
where the wind is
Am                        Em
Blowing. ^ What the wind is bending

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[Verse 2]
Em
 ^ Isobars are opening. Sex to 
midnight. Cabinet shuffling homeward
 bound.
Em
 ^ Taking a detour, rendezvous-do. 
Chapel in the valley of the blown up
 doll.
Am/F
 ^ That's not Martha shunting in a 
siding. She got homework up to here.
Em
 ^ Roger's in the footnotes up to 
his elbones. Verse and chapter 
disinterred
Am6/C                             
 ^ Borrowing a bookcase don't come
       Bm
 easy. The weight of the evidence in
 parenthesis
Am
Beggars tightly furled belief.
Em
 ^ Heads on betablocker repetition 
on the line. ^ Shell shock 
supertroopers, whirl banking oil 
palm.
Em
Intercontinental drift over the 
rainbow. Over the sea to ska rocker 
skintone.
Am/F
Her suit missed a link and that's 
not all ^ that he got missing in a 
thousand years of
Em
Orthotoxic waste disposal. God 
proposal jealous guy.
Am6/C                          Bm
 ^ Whatever is a girl to do to break
 the service in its tried and
Am
tested and found wanting state of 
old-boy network stewardship?

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[Verse 3]
Em
 ^ Little Johnny Aardvark never hurt
 nobody. Martha friend and Roger 
too.
Em
Tone down a little sotto voce some 
tall order ^ given that four
Am/F
minutes is eternity time in the 
hushed up world of waspish
Em
V-signs A-sides sui-C-side sellers ^
 of the bad young B-sides
Am6/C
What's the point ^ of digging deeper
Bm                            
just to lay the ghost of Sala ^ 
         Am
Hal-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub?
Em
 ^ "Don't give up" the dead man 
cried. "There's more of us than 
there of you.
Em
Soon you'll all be on our side 
forever more, ^ or Lester Young 
died."
Am/F
Fat Girl also blowing all the blues 
away side dust ain't just dust.
Em
Trust us like we live forever, ^ 
broken loose from greystone tether.
Am6/C                       
 ^ Keep on tiptoe through the 
           Bm
archive. We are dead But you are 
a-live.
Am
Martha, yes and Roger too. ^ Until 
you let the gringos grind you down