#research. Remember to view this file in Courier, or other monospaced font. # #See http://www.olga.net/faq/ for more information. # Subject: b/brady_paul/nothing_but_the_same_old_story.crd Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:48:15 -0400 From: Dave Carroll <carrolld@bu.edu> "Nothing But The Same Old Story" by Paul Brady
^EmI was just about ^Cnineteen ^G When I ^Clanded ^Don their s^Ghore With my eyes big as ^Dheadlights ^Bm7 Like the thousands and ^Cthousands who ^Dcame bef^Core I was going to be ^Gsomething I ^Bm7smiled at the ^Cman scrutin^Dising my ^Gface As I ^Dstepped down off the ^Emgangway ^A ^Em ^A
Came down to their city Where I worked for many's the year Built a hundred houses Must've pulled half a million pints of beer Living under suspicion Putting up with the hatred and fear in their eyes You can see that your nothing but a murderer In their eyes, we're nothing but a bunch of murderers Chorus
^EmHey J^Cohnny, can't ^Gwait 'til Saturday ^Cnigh^Dt ^G Got a thirst that's ^Draging ^Bm7 Know a place where ^Cwe can ^Dput that ^Cright Wash away the ^Gconfusion ^Bm7 Hose down this ^Cfire ins^Dide But ^Glook out! I'll ^Dtear you into pieces if you ^Emcross me
I'm sick of watching them break up Every time some bird brain puts us down Making jokes on the radio Guess it helps them all drown out the sound Of the crumbling foundations Any fool can see the writing on the wall But they just don't believe that it's happening There's a crowd says I'm alright Say they like my turn of phrase Take me round to their parties Like some dressed up monkey in a cage And I play my accordian Oh, but when the wine seeps through the facade It's nothing but the same old story Nothing but the same old story Chorus Got a brother in Boston Says he'll send me on the fare Just wrote me a letter Making out that he's cleaning up out there Two cars in the driveway Summer house way down on the Cape And I know that he's fix me up in the morning I've been thinking about it But it seems so far to go People say in the winter You'd get lost underneath the snow And there's this girl from my home place We've been planning to move back and give it a try So I never got around to going That's why I never got around to going Chorus Wow! Now there are TWO Paul Brady songs out there! From the 1981 album "Hard Station" (Mercury #834 696-2. sell your car, fly to Dublin, buy it!) but also on the US-available 1992 compilation "Songs and Crazy Dreams" (Fontana #314 512 397-2). This song is about the Irish experience in England.I play it as described, although playing with the record requires a capo on the 2nd fret.

Paul Brady - Nothing but the same old story