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Graham Parker & the Rumour

The Rumour was an English rock band in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are best known as the backup band for Graham Parker, whose early records (from 1976 to 1980) were credited to Graham Parker & The Rumour. However, The Rumour also recorded on their own, releasing three albums: Max (1977), Frogs, Sprouts, Clogs and Krauts (1979), and Purity of Essence (1980). The group broke up at the end of 1980, but reunited as Parker's backing band in 2011, and have performed and recorded with Parker ever since. The band undertook a short final UK tour in October 2015, finishing with a final concert at the London Forum on 17 October 2015. At this show, the surviving members of the horn section also reunited, for the first time in 33 years. more »

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2009

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 Capo at 2 (intro D Em G Em D 
Em          G            G             C              
So all of you be damned we can't have heaven crammed
Am                         C             D
So Winston Churchill said I could have smacked his head
Em           G               G         C              
And all of those infected waiting to be collected
Am                            C                 D
I must get out at any price before the feeling gets too nice
 
CHORUS
Em              C               G     D        
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
Em              C               G     D        
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
Em              C               G   D             G      C
Just can't get, just can't get no  Can't get no protection, 
G        C    G     C      D
protection, protection
 
Every bomb is detonated every switch is thrown
And everybody tells me don't be scared act as if you never cared
So I wear a blank expression to conceal my real impression
Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station
 
REPEAT CHORUS Then Em/G Am/C which repeats over BRIDGE
 
So turn off this sound I'm ready to go down
I don't know myself, I don't you either
You're full of disease it's something I discovered
I know you've been mixing with Big Brother's brother
It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart
It's just the thought of someone
It's just the thought of someone
                                    Em             Em
It's just the thought of someone sticking it in, sticking it in
 
So if you think that's funny I'm not really laughng honey
Your love letters are confetti I ripped them up my hands were sweaty
And then those ghastly faces recur in nightmare places
Happy hours come and go much too short and much too long
 
CHORUS Then this rhythm again  Em/G Am/C 
 
Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station
Protection protection protection
It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart
It's just the thought of someone sticking it in
Protection protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off
Protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off
Protection protection You want to hide? You want to hide?
You want to hide, hide, hide? Protection REPEAT AND FADE

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