Graham Parker Local Girls Lyrics:
INTRO D Bm G (three times) then G A

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
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

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
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

REPEAT CHORUS (plus)
D G
Don't bother with the.... local girls

BRIDGE
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A G A G
They got the walk they got
the talk Right down without
a flaw
A G G A D
At six oclock I got to stop
My dreaming at the counter
of the store
D Bm G D Bm G
Don't bother with them
D Bm G G A

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
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

(3 times) and fade

Here's the story of this transcription:

Someone (off list) emailed
me for the lyrics so I
wrote them out and
at the same time I wrote
down a couple of the
chords. Then John
(jhayman@k12s.phast.umass.
e du) saw it and made the
necessary
additions and corrections.

For a while we were playing
Emaj7 instead of E in the
first line,
(B) Sit by my window and
(Emaj7) look outside, but
the current
thought is that the E is correct.

John wrote: "In hind
sight and sound, Emaj7 is
wrong and E is right.
Although he's singing a Db,
the rhythm guitar is
clearly playing a
Dave Edmund's "monkey
beat" E." (I play
that E at fret 4 (476454))
Lyrics: Local Girls, Graham Parker [end]