Blues In Bob Minor

Fm Fm A#m Fm A#m C# Cm A#m/F# Fm ^ Roger's in the archive looking up casement, Martha's in the government ^ digging up the basement. Fm Rebel into representative for the voter. ^ Shadow backbencher couldn't get a word in. A#m ^ Turned up anyway, issues burning. ^ All consuming, drinks in the cabinet Fm ^ Spent a lot of time just examining the building. Drinks on the house? You must be joking C# Cm ^ Corridors of power cuts toy telephone bill. Long time no see underneath the floorboard A#m ^ Looking for the roots of the family treetops. Toe's in the water but you've only got ten. Fm Fingers in the eel pie, poke around tip top. ^ Tunnelling a wormhole Eartha Kitty catfish. Fm ^ Meadow brown peacock, pupa-larva-caterpillar, hibernate in winter of our discotheque. No A#m End in sight. More like a spiral ^ coil or curler just unwinding Fm Very slowly ^ revealing endless disappearing pipelines C# Cm Genuflecting, bowing deeply. It don't take a weathergirl to see where the wind is A#m Fm Blowing. ^ What the wind is bending Fm Fm A#m Fm C# Cm A#m Fm ^ Isobars are opening. S*x to midnight. Cabinet shuffling homeward bound. Fm ^ Taking a detour, rendezvous-do. Chapel in the valley of the blown up doll. A#m/F# ^ That's not Martha shunting in a siding. She got homework up to here. Fm ^ Roger's in the footnotes up to his elbones. Verse and chapter disinterred A#m6/C# Cm ^ Borrowing a bookcase don't come easy. The weight of the evidence in parenthesis A#m Beggars tightly furled belief. Fm ^ Heads on betablocker repetition on the line. ^ Shell shock supertroopers, whirl banking oil palm. Fm Intercontinental drift over the rainbow. Over the sea to ska rocker skintone. A#m/F# Her suit missed a link and that's not all ^ that he got missing in a thousand years of Fm Orthotoxic waste disposal. God proposal jealous guy. A#m6/C# Cm ^ Whatever is a girl to do to break the service in its tried and A#m tested and found wanting state of old-boy network stewardship? Fm Fm A#m/F# Fm A#m6/C# Cm A#m Fm ^ Little Johnny Aardvark never hurt nobody. Martha friend and Roger too. Fm Tone down a little sotto voce some tall order ^ given that four A#m/F# minutes is eternity time in the hushed up world of waspish Fm V-signs A-sides sui-C-side sellers ^ of the bad young B-sides A#m6/C# What's the point ^ of digging deeper Cm A#m just to lay the ghost of Sala ^ Hal-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub? Fm ^ "Don't give up" the dead man cried. "There's more of us than there of you. Fm Soon you'll all be on our side forever more, ^ or Lester Young died." A#m/F# Fat Girl also blowing all the blues away side dust ain't just dust. Fm Trust us like we live forever, ^ broken loose from greystone tether. A#m6/C# Cm ^ Keep on tiptoe through the archive. We are dead But you are a-live. A#m Martha, yes and Roger too. ^ Until you let the gringos grind you down Fm Fm A#m/F# Fm A#m6/C# Cm A#m Fm