Steady Nerves

pre>intro: the chords i have worked out here consist of two base notes only.
Some of them are power chords (neither major nor minor, no 3rd)

D5 55xxxx
Bm* 75xxxx
Asus4 55xxxx (same as d*)
G5 35xxxx
A5 57xxxx
Dsus2 xx0230
/ / / / / / / /
The intro sequence i think, is this d5 bm* asus4 g5 a5

Verse
Bm* d5 bm* asus4 g5 d5 d d dsus2 d
Darlin' wake up now, i'm makin' a promise that i'm gonna keep
Bm* d5 bm* asus4 g5 a5
I'll never give up now, when love is a passion that can't go to sleep

Chorus
A5 d5 g5 a5 d5 g5 a5
Until the mighty rivers, until the mighty oceans dry up, i'll be your man
A5 d5 g5 a5 d5 g5 a5
Until the mighty rivers all run dry and fade away girl you understand

Verse
They tell you there's no chance, for love to be stable when everything shakes
It only took the one glance, for my heart to tremble and my soul to quake

Repeat chorus (plus)
A5 bm* d5 a5 d5
Till the mighty rivers ooh mighty rivers,

Bridge
Bm* d5 bm* d5
Ooh can you hear me as you run into my back
Bm* d5 bm* a5
And the customs never clear me, they want to put me behind black

Repeat intro

Verse
Oh darlin wake uh up now, before there's no sunshine left up in the sky
I'll never give up now, let's shed all the teardrops and let our hearts dry

Repeat chorus (plus)
D5 bm* d5
Until the mighty rivers, the mighty rivers, the mighty rivers,
Bm* d5 bm*
The mighty rivers, the mighty rivers, the mighty rivers,

Repeat chorus
D5 a5 bm* g5 a5 d5
Till the mighty rivers oooooh mighty rivers... /pre>

pre>i think this is a vamp essentially on a and dmaj7 which are probably the main chords
In "must be my imagination" quoted near the end.

To my ears it sounds as though the intro is something like this.

Hit the a string a6 (pull off to) a/e a
Xx2222 xx2220 x0222x

Wake up (next to you) - graham parker

Intro

A dmaj7 a dmaj7
I can't have no objection to the world outside
A dmaj7 a dmaj7
I don't have no complaints against life's one way ride
A dmaj7 a dmaj7
I know i'm sleeping with an angel and this devil's in luck
A
Oooooooh wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
E d
I've been dreamin for too long
E d
I guess something's always wrong unless i
A d a d
Wake up, next to you, i wanna
A d a d
Wake up, next to you you
E d a a d a
Oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh oooh

A
Oooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, yeah

The summer's left a spell on us, magic and gold
The tarmac's cracked and shimmering, up on the road
I know i'm walking with an angel down a hot avenue
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
I've been dreamin for too long
I guess something's always wrong unless i

A d a d
Wake up, next to you, i'm gonna wake up
A d a
Wake up, next to you ooooooo (sax solo)

(spoken)
You know what i'm gonna do, i'm gonna pick up the telephone
Right now and i'm gonna call information and i'm gonna say to 'em
"where is she right now? cause i want you and i need you"
And i wanna hear her say: "hey baby, wake up!" (bass riff from
"must be my imagination")

A d a d
Wake up, next to you, i'm gonna wake up
A d a d
Wake up, next to you you
E d a a d a
Oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh oooh
A
Oooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, yeah

"where is she right now? cause i want her and i need her" fade on "wake up"
/pre>

pre>intro f# b a

A d a d a
Canned laughter, rings in my ears the morning after
Canned laughter, would cans save a big disaster?
D f#m d f#m
Spreads around the room like a tumour, i'm not exactly in good humour
D a dm e
I wish it came just one joke sooner, then i'd have to laugh

Canned laughter, i can't crack up and i don't have to
Canned laughter, i'm not too canned to fall in after

Can't disguise the actual gloom but you can't do nothing but consume
Until there isn't any room for anything worth while

D a e d a e d a e d a
Canned laughter, ooh, canned laughter, ooh, canned laughter, ooh

Sax break over a and d then e

Canned laughter, still echoing in the rafters
Canned laughter, i hang on the morning after
Can't disguise the way you feel, you see the razor blade and the reel
It don't do nothing to conceal that you're not having fun

Canned laughter, rings in my ears the morning after
Canned laughter, don't laugh baby you don't have to

(note the riff from discovering kapan and "hey")
I can do without the rumour, i'm not exactly in good humour
It feels like a malignant tumour growing in my heart
D a e d a e d a e d a
Canned laughter, ooh, canned laughter, ooh, canned laughter, ooh

Canned laughter (audio fx) /pre>

pre>intro: e then riff

E e eadd9 e7 e6 e (use the pinkie)
Get your car out of the parking lot,
N.y. city's getting much too hot
Way down island there's a real cool breeze,

Bridge
D a e a bm
Baby get ready, the pressure's off, your body's hot, you got a good personality,
A e a bm
My hand goes down your heart beat's up i can't go back to reality

Chorus
E eadd9 e eadd9 e7 e6 e
The weekend's too short, ooh yeah
The weekend's too short, ooh yeah

Instrumental
Bless that bible, let the liquor run (the weekend's too short, ooh)
Before they raise the drinking age to 21 (the weekend's too short, ooh)
Two days time it's going back to the grind (the weekend's too short, ooh)

Bridge
And the party's all over,
The time goes fast, our love will last, can't past the test of reality
My hand goes down your heart beat's up i said with some finality

Repeat chorus then instrumental with solo

Get your car out of the parking lot, n.y. city's getting much too hot
Way down island there's a real cool breeze, baby get ready,
The pressure's off, your body's hot, you got a good personality,
My hand goes down your heart beat's up i can't go back to reality

Repeat chorus (three times) /pre>

pre>intro: notes picked out of a and asus4

A (throughout)
Shake that cocktail and follow the road
The doors are locked and the windows are closed
There's only one way to the american dream
They're awaiting your arrival in a big limousine

Chorus
E e e
In the back of a, black... in the back of a, black..in the back of a, black...
A
Lincoln continental, lincoln continental lincoln continental,
E
Black black, lincoln continental black black, lincoln continental,
E
Black black, lincoln continental (then repeat intro)

They take you to dinner and you eat off the plate
And you don't taste the poison until it's too late
And seven years later something is funny
Is it the black upholstery or the dirty money?

Repeat chorus then instrumental bridge (f g am c) and intro var.

The rugs all fake made of persian jute
And the chauffeur got the job by actin' cute
He's watching the speedometer and counting your money
And the big white lines make your heart beat funny

Repeat chorus then instrumental intro and shuffle and then fade
/pre>

pre>
B g#m e f#
Take every, take every, take everything
Take every, take every, take everything

C#m e c#m f#
Don't tell me that you're above it, you might as well learn to love it
C#m e c#m b f#
It's just a natural obsession, keep your mouth full

The sky is thick with the fuse wire you think it's safe in your room
Hoping the very next boom won't be the big one

B g#m e f#
Take everything you can and run, that's the way it's done
B g#m e f#
What's on your shoulders must weigh a ton, that's for having fun
B g#m e f# e
Shoot all of those bullets out of that gun, now before they explode inside you

Come home with a pack of dioxin, we need brand names on our toxins
For people who's lives are boxed in, just like ours are

You don't have to shoot your mouth off, but baby, please don't cough
You don't have to sell your soul just to admit it

Take everything you can and run, that's the way it's done
Don't think of this world baby it's gone, that's for having fun
You might not be here when the sun, gets pulled out of the sky above you

Instrumental section

Take every, take every, take everything
Take every, take every, take everything

Don't tell me that you're above it, you might as well learn to love it
It's just a natural obsession, keep your mouth full

Take everything you can and run, that's the way it's done
What's on your shoulders must weigh a ton, and blots out the sun
Shoot all of those bullets out of that gun now before they explode inside you

Take every, take every, take everything
Take every, take every, take everything (3 times) /pre>