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Nothing Ever Happens

Del Amitri

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Great song! Been playing it in my band for years this is how i play it

Capo 3,



Intro: C   (C)

Verse 1:

  (C)                                              Am
Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed
   C                                                 Am
And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats
    F                   C          G                  F  
Janitors padlock the gates for security guards to patrol
    F                          C                           G
And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink While the married ones 
           F
turn on a chat show
            C               F                      C
And theyll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Verse 2:

   C                                             Am
Gentlemen time please, you know we cant serve anymore
         C                                                  Am
Now the traffic lights change to stop, when theres nothing to go
        F                        C
And by five oclock everythings dead
       G                  F                          C                
And every third car is a cab, and ignorant people sleep in their beds,
           G                        F
Like the doped white mice in the college lab


Chorus:

       C            F      C                  F 
And Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all.
      Am      G             F 
The needle returns to the start of the song,
        G                     F
And we all sing along like before,
          C               F                   C
And well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow.


Verse 3:

    C                                          Am
Telephone exchanges click while theres nobody there,
     C                                                  Am
The martians could land in the carpark and no one would care.
  F                        C                         G                F
Close-circuit cameras in department stores shoot the same video everyday.
         F                            C
And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed,
        G                       F
Just survive constant action replay


Chorus:

       C            F      C                  F 
And Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all.
      Am      G             F 
The needle returns to the start of the song,
        G                     F
And we all sing along like before,
          C               F                   C
And well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow.
  


Interlude: D    C    D    C    Am    G    C    (C)

Verse 4:
 (C)                                             Am
Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs
  C                                                  Am
While angry from manchester writes to complain about all the repeats on t.v.
  F                       C                 G                          F
And computer terminals report some gains, on the values of copper and tin
  F                         C                 G                           
While american businessmen snap up van goghs for the price of a hospital 
 F
wing



Chorus:

       C           F         C                F
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
      Am      G             F
The needle returns to the start of the song,
        G                    F
And we all sing along like before,
       C           F       C                 F
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all,
        Am          G            F
Theyll burn down the synagogues at six oclock
         G                   F
And well all go along like before,
          C               F                   C             
And well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow.

Finish on: C



Hope you like it been playin it same for 10 years one of the first songs i learnt

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Nothing Ever Happens

Del Amitri