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From: ericb@uluru1.ecr.mu.oz.au (Enrico_Giuseppe BETTIO)
Subject: CRD: Nothing Ever Happens - Del Amitri

 I had this song ringing around and around in my haed a little while
 ago, its a nice little pesimistic(sp?) song. Anyway, I really
 wanted to play it so I checked a couple of ftp sites and no-one
 had the chords (maths.tcd had only the lyrics).
      Then the song just happen to come on the radio when I had
 my finger on the 'record' button, so I taped it and tried
 to work it out myself, pretty coincidental eh?
 Anyway, here is my version, If I made any mistakes hopefully
 someone will correct them.. I got the lyrics from maths.tcd:

 Nothing Ever Happens    - Del Amitri
 --------------------

F                                                 Dm
Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed
F                                                      Dm
And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats
 Bb                   F
Janitors padlock the gates
     Gm                   Bb
For security guards to patrol
     Bb                        F
And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink
           Gm                      Bb
While the married ones turn on a chat show

      F                      Gm                 F
And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Gentlemen time please, you know we can't serve anymore
Now the traffic lights change to stop, when there's nothing to go
And by five o'clock everything's dead
And every third car is a cab
And ignorant people sleep in their bed
Like the doped white mice in the college lab


 F            Bb       F                 Bb
Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
     Dm                     Bb
The needle returns to the start of the song
       C                      Bb
And we all sing along like before

          F                Gm                 F
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody there
The Martians could land in the carpark and no one would care
Close-circuit cameras in department stores
Shoot the same movie everyday
And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed
Just survive constant action replay

Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before

And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs
While angry from Manchester writes to complain about
All the repeats on TV
And computer terminals report some gains
In the values of copper and tin
While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs
For the price of a hospital wing

Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before
Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock
And we'll all go along like before

And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow


bye
eric


From: mmc@ehabitat.demon.co.uk (Martin McCarthy)
Subject: Re: CRD: Nothing Ever Happens - Del Amitri

The corrections I've thrown in are how they played it last time I saw
them...

> Nothing Ever Happens    - Del Amitri
> --------------------
>
>F                                                 Dm
>Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed
>F                                                      Dm
>And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats
> Bb                   F
>Janitors padlock the gates

>     Gm                   Bb
      C                    Bb
>For security guards to patrol
>     Bb                        F
>And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink

>           Gm                      Bb
            C                       Bb
>While the married ones turn on a chat show
>
>      F                      Gm                 F
       F                      Bb                 F
>And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

[snip]

> F            Bb       F                 Bb
>Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
>     Dm                     Bb
>The needle returns to the start of the song
>       C                      Bb
>And we all sing along like before
>
>          F                Gm                 F
           F                Bb                 F
>And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Then before verse 4 there's a wee instrumentally bit over the chords:

Gm  Dm  Gm  Dm  G  F  G  F

Also, there's a second guitar with capo on the 5th fret playing:

Verse:  C Am C Am F C G F C G F (C F C)
Chorus: C F C F Am F G F C F C
Instr:  Dm Am Dm Am D C D C

Hope this is of some use, and not too wrong.
M
--
Martin McCarthy - mmc@ehabitat.demon.co.uk


From: Dan Rolander 
Subject: Nothing Ever Happens (correction)

 Nothing Ever Happens    - Del Amitri
 --------------------

F                                                 Dm
Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed
F                                                      Dm
And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats
 Bb                   F
Janitors padlock the gates
     C                   Bb
For security guards to patrol
     Bb                        F
And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink
           C                      Bb
While the married ones turn on a chat show

      F                      Bb                 F
And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Gentlemen time please, you know we can't serve anymore
Now the traffic lights change to stop, when there's nothing to go
And by five o'clock everything's dead
And every third car is a cab
And ignorant people sleep in their bed
Like the doped white mice in the college lab


 F            Bb       F                 Bb
Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
     Dm                     Bb
The needle returns to the start of the song
       C                      Bb
And we all sing along like before

          F                Bb                 F
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody there
The Martians could land in the carpark and no one would care
Close-circuit cameras in department stores
Shoot the same movie everyday
And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed
Just survive constant action replay

Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before

And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs
While angry from Manchester writes to complain about
All the repeats on TV
And computer terminals report some gains
In the values of copper and tin
While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs
For the price of a hospital wing

Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before
Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock
And we'll all go along like before

And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow