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Local Girls

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

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. Edu) 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))