Nothing Ever Happens

Justin Currie

C

Post office clerks put up signs saying "position

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closed"

And

C

secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their

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coats

And

F

janitors padlock the

C

gates for se

G

curity guards to pat

F

rol

And bachelors phone up their

C

friends for a drink

While the

G

married ones turn on a

F

chat show

And they'll

C

all be lonely to

F

night and lonely to

C

morrow

C

Gentlemen, time please, you know we can't serve any

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more

Now the

C

traffic lights change to stop, when there's nothing to

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go

And by

F

five o'clock everything's

C

dead

And

G

every third car is a

F

cab

And ignorant people

C

sleep in their beds

Like the

G

doped white mice in the

F

college lab

And

C

nothing ever

F

happens,

C

nothing happens at

F

all

The

Am

needle returns to the

F

start of the song

And we

G

all sing along like be

F

fore

And we'll

C

all be lonely to

F

night and lonely to

C

morrow

C

The telephone exchanges click while there's

G/H

nobody

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there

The

C

Martians could land in the car park

And no one would

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care

F

The close-circuit cameras in

C

department stores

Shoot the

G

same movie every

F

day

And the stars of these films neither

C

die nor get killed

Just sur

G

vive constant action re

F

play

C/E

Dm

G/H

And

C

nothing ever

F

happens,

C

nothing happens at

F

all

The

Am

needle returns to the

F

start of the song

And we

G

all sing along like be

F

fore

And we'll

C

all be lonely to

F

night and lonely to

C

morrow

D

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D

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C

D

C/E

D/F#

C/G

And

C

bill holdings advertise products that nobody

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needs

While

C

angry from Manchester writes

To complain about

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all the repeats on T.V.

And

F

computer terminals

C

report

Some gains in the

G

values of copper and

F

tin

While American businessmen

C

snap up Van Goghs

For the

G

price of a hospital

F

wing

C/E

Dm

G/H

And

C

nothing ever

F

happens,

C

nothing happens at

F

all

The

Am

needle returns to the

F

start of the song

And we

G

all sing along like be

F

fore

And

C

nothing ever

F

happens,

C

nothing happens at

F

all

They'll

Am

burn down the synagogues

F

at six o'clock

And we'll

G

all go along like be

F

fore

And we'll

C

all be lonely to

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night and lonely to

C

morrow

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