Great song! Been playing it in my band for years this is how i play it
Capo 3,
Intro: C (C)
Verse 1:
(C) Am
Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed
And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats
Janitors padlock the gates for security guards to patrol
And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink While the married ones
turn on a chat show
And theyll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
Verse 2:
Gentlemen time please, you know we cant serve anymore
Now the traffic lights change to stop, when theres nothing to go
And by five oclock everythings dead
And every third car is a cab, and ignorant people sleep in their beds,
Like the doped white mice in the college lab
Chorus:
And Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all.
The needle returns to the start of the song,
And we all sing along like before,
And well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow.
Verse 3:
Telephone exchanges click while theres nobody there,
The martians could land in the carpark and no one would care.
Close-circuit cameras in department stores shoot the same video everyday.
And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed,
Just survive constant action replay
Chorus:
And Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all.
The needle returns to the start of the song,
And we all sing along like before,
And well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow.
Interlude: (C)
Verse 4:
(C) Am
Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs
While angry from manchester writes to complain about all the repeats on t.v.
And computer terminals report some gains, on the values of copper and tin
While american businessmen snap up van goghs for the price of a hospital
wing
Chorus:
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song,
And we all sing along like before,
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all,
Theyll burn down the synagogues at six oclock
And well all go along like before,
And well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow.
Finish on: C
Hope you like it been playin it same for 10 years one of the first songs i learnt