Singer’s Hampstead Home by Microdisney

From Microdisney’s 1988 39 Minutes album. Written by Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan. No capo.

INTRO

[G7] [F] [G7] [C] [G7] [Am7]

VERSE 1

[G7] [Fmaj7] Got a heart shaped swimming pool
[G7] [Fmaj7] Broken heart and a swimming pool [F6] [C] [G7] [Am7]

[G7] [Fmaj7] Big house and a running joke
[G7] [Fmaj7] Big joke everybody can [F6] come and [C] see [G7] [Am7]

[G7] [Fmaj7] Pop songs and happy ends
[G7] [Fmaj7] You know they’re dead but you still prete [F6] nd [C] [G7] [Am7]

[G7] [Fmaj7] Planet Earth’s on the telephone
[G7] [Fmaj7] Say goodbye, say he won’t be [F6] home, not ever [C] [G7] [Am7]

[G7] And the [Fmaj7] reign
Of the vain
Is a [C] pain

CHORUS 1

[G] Sing [D] er’s [C/G] Hampstead home [Cmaj7]
[Am] Waiting for the blows to [D] fall
[Am7] They don’t hurt at [D7] all

[G] Sing [D] er’s [C/G] Hampstead home [Cmaj7]
[Am] Snoopers underneath the [D] bed
[Am7] Void in singer’s [D7] head

VERSE 2

[G7] [Fmaj7] He’s crawling home to his golden bath
[G7] [Fmaj7] Drags his face on the gravel path [F6] [C] [G7] [Am7]

[G7] [Fmaj7] He only had blank lines to say
[G7] [Fmaj7] But he said them in a witty and [F6] stylish [C] way [G7] [Am7]

[G7] And the [Fmaj7] reign
Of the vain
Is a [C] pain

CHORUS 1

[G] Sing [D] er’s [C/G] Hampstead home [Cmaj7]
[Am] Waiting for the blows to [D] fall
[Am7] They don’t hurt at [D7] all

[G] Sing [D] er’s [C/G] Hampstead home [Cmaj7]
[Am] Snoopers underneath the [D] bed
[Am7] Void in singer’s [D7] head

INTERLUDE

[G7] [Fmaj7] [G7] [Fmaj7] [G7] [C] [G] [Am7] [D]

CHORUS 2

[G] Sing [D] er’s [C/G] Hampstead home [Cmaj7]
[Am] Going down the gospel [D] road
With [Am7] all the old frauds and [D7] bores

[G] Sing [D] er’s [C/G] Hampstead home [Cmaj7]
[Am] They will never have their [D] fill
Of [Am7] sliding down their sacred [D7] hill

OUTRO

[G7] And the [Fmaj7] strain
[G7] On the [F6] lame
[G6] Such a [C/G] shame