Chords for Justin Currie - Nothing Ever Happens

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_ _ _ _ Post office clerks put up signs saying, close the [Dm] schools.
_ _ [F] And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their [Dm] coats. _ _
_ [Bb] And janitors [F] padlock the gates for [C]
security [Bb] guards to patrol.
And bachelors phone up [F] their friends for a drink while [C] the married ones turn on a chat show. _
And [F] they'll all be lonely today and [F] lonely tomorrow.
_ _ _ And gentlemen, time please, you know we can't [Dm] serve anymore.
_ _ [F] Now the traffic lights change to stop when there's nothing [Dm] to go. _
_ [Bb] And by five o'clock [F] everything's dead [C] and every third [Bb] car has a cab.
And ignorant [F] people sleep in their [C] beds like the doped white [Bb] mice in the college lab.
[F] And nothing [Bb] ever happens, [F] nothing [Bb] happens at all.
[Dm] The needle [Bb] returns to the start of a [C] song and we all sing along [Bb] like before.
[F] And we'll all be [Bb] lonely tonight and [F] lonely tomorrow. _
_ And telephone [C] exchanges click while there's [Dm] nobody there.
_ _ [F] The mouse and [C] skittle land in the car park and [Dm] no one would care. _ _
[Bb] And closed circuit [F] cameras and department [C] stores shoot the same movie [Bb] every day.
And the stars of these [F] films neither die nor get killed, [C] just survive constant [Bb] action replay.
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And nothing [Bb] ever happens, [F] nothing happens [Bb] at all.
[Dm] The needle returns [Bb] to the start of a [C] song and we all sing [Bb] along like before.
[F] And we'll all be lonely [Bb] tonight and [F] lonely tomorrow. _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And Bill Hovings [C] advertise products that [Dm] nobody needs.
_ [F] While [C] angry from Manchester writes to complain [Dm] about all the repeats on TV.
[Bb] And computer [F] terminals report some gains [C] in the values of [Bb] copper and tin.
While American [F] businessmen snap off van [C] Goghs for the price of a [Bb] hospital wing. _ _
[F] And nothing [Bb] ever happens, [F] nothing [Bb] happens at all.
[Dm] The needle [Bb] returns to the start of a song and [C] we all sing [Bb] along like before.
[F] And nothing [Bb] ever happens, [F] nothing [Bb] happens at all.
[Dm]
They'll burn down the [Bb] synagogues at six o'clock and [C] we'll all go [Bb] along like before.
[F] And we'll all be lonely [Bb] tonight and [F] lonely tomorrow.
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