Graham Parker - Platinum blonde Lyrics

Intro - Country picking oohs G Em C D

G Em C Am7 G
Stuff comes down from the golden triangle on ferries from Denmark to helsingborg

G Em C Am7 G
The band strikes up but they're out of time on synthesiser and washboard

Em D C D
wooden tulips grow by the roadside made in a factory in jonjoping

Em D C D
fake glass baubles hang in the station just like the passenger's imitation

Am Em C Em
then it hits you she was just the dregs all you wanna do now is break her legs

Am Em D
kick that brunette into a pond replace her with a


CHORUS
D C G C G C G C
platinum blonde, platinum blonde, platinum blonde, platinum blonde


There's a secret world that you cannot enter it's in the center of the darkest night

she's waiting there with a set of works a Swedish passport and something white

she walks past but you can't form a whistle
even her lips look artificial
you wanna follow her but you can't swallow her act it seems so superficial
now you've shed the old one like a worn out shoe

It was all your fault but you blame her too
you know its phoney but at least it's new and it comes from a bottle like


chorus repeat last part of Intro repeat with solo

And in your heart there's a new addiction another friction that you can't resolve

she seemed alive but she is just