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Globe Of Frogs Full Album by Robyn Hitchcock
Globe Of Frogs Full Album
Tropical Flesh Mandala
Main Riff:
G:-0-----------0------------|
D:---3-0---0-3--------------|
A:-------2------------------|
E:---------------3----------|
(It's played a bit too fast for me to be sure, but I know that the song
is in
a key of G and that this riff is close. If you don't trust this version,
send in your own, or just play a G.)
Lying out there on the beach was a pleasant growth
in the reach of me and you in the reach of both
tropical flesh mandala, tropical flesh mandala
G(3) C(3) F Bb
floating in a moist exotic pool
G(3) C(3) F F#
feeling so good-natured I could drool
So I took a photograph so there'd be no doubt
when I got the pictures back none of them came out
tropical flesh mandala, tropical flesh mandala
underneath your ribcage and your skin
honey there's a new way to get in
it was covered in pink scales lots of tiny feathers
valves that opened up and valves that closed very tight together
tropical flesh mandala, tropical flesh mandala
on the night the creature came ashore
someone told Joanna what they're for
Vibrating
e:-0-0-0-0-0----------|
B:--0-0-0-0-0---------|
Bass: (listen for rhythm)
verse:
A:-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-0-2-0---------
Cross-legged on the bed she gazed across the town
her shadow climbed the wall until the sun went down
she bought a china pug it lay there on the bed
and in the paper bag she could just see its head
bass:
D:------------1-2-2--2---2---2---1-----------------1-2-2--|
A:2---2---2------------------------4-4-4---4---4----------|
She was vibrating She was vibrating She was vibrating
and in an adoring pose he shriveled up and died
until his bones were stems upon the grass they dried
and made an alphabet of white upon the green
and it was beautiful and some would say obscene
she was vibrating she was vibrating she was vibrating
and in the demon's hat discolored flowers grew
and they had fleshy stems and fleshy petals too
to slither is divine to multifoliate
she just lost her watch she couldn't concentrate
she was vibrating she was vibrating she was vibrating
she was vibrating she was vibrating she was vibrating
Balloon Man
Intro:
e:--4-5-2---4-5-2
(Sorry. That's all I've got of it. The rest seems to be all organ)
Oh the bodies of drowned sailors and dead airmen
flounder upside down beneath the roaring wave
and the fishes eat the flesh from off their fingers
and the sea is so much deeper than the grave
and the pale English stone stands alone over me
oh the bodies rise and fall in slow motion
as the flesh gives way to coral and her charms
if you listen hard you'll hear the sea is breathing
and she's waiting there to hold you in her arms
and the pale English sun shone over me
oh the telegram is lying on the table
you left it there you can't believe its true
God finds you naked and he leaves you dying
what happens in between is up to you
and the luminous rose glows over me over me
Sleeping With Your Devil Mask
*(The end of verse bass/guitar riff)
E:-0h5----5p3-------0
or E/A(5) A(5)/G(3) E
E * E *
I see the birdies in the trees I see the fishes in the seas
and perching on the garden wall I see the man that made it all
I see the sand, I see the stones I see right through into your bones
E
your skeleton can dance all night and caper beneath the swaying light
A(5)
sleeping with your devil mask is all I want to do
B(7) G(3) E
and when I stop it means I'm through with you
E G(3) E G(3) A(5) E
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah
so welcome Mr. Dennis Forbes who's brought along his perspect orbs
and they are full of leather peas that rattle like a slow disease
I've got to have a nasty thought because of all the stuff I bought
from sultry Mr. Garrick Hobbs who does a load of useless jobs
and in the chapel after lunch they used to cluster in a bunch
sleeping with your devil mask is all I wanna do
and when I stop it means I'm through with you
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah
it's all compulsion, there's no choice my mother's second name is Joyce
and once when she was very young she saw a cellist being hung
thirteen men with long black heads all came and stood around her bed
and when the morning light came in she saw their heads had all caved in
their rotting brains fell to the floor and crawled away towards the door
sleeping with your Devil mask is all I wanna do
and when I stop it means I'm through with you
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah
the organism rapes itself as it gives birth upon the shelf
and over where the magpie struts a flower billows from my guts
some things go in some things go out and next time back I'll come back a
trout
Unsettled
G:-7---5---4-5---0--0---
What can I say to you?
(The Bass and guitar is just sort of follows the lines of: G:--5-4-5-4 )
Batter engines pack a swallow piston in you shatter inches bell
bloody glass eruption it embarrassed of the seven druids
muscle-bound instructions over patient forest fire
in the month the dogs expire
helicopter pepper cord I'm ram impatient swallow on patrol
gotta leave her heart plug in her dinner service multiply my
cat a role is friendship easy fear and pattern lease
suddenly the feeling of you leaves
everybody fourteen-points in session buy a rusty pair of clint
should in fact potatoes straddles rockery of hairy mythic
mental dung-heap flurry over shot lasagna breeds
in a hollow shoe the mincemeat seeds for you
everything breathes for you
get a heart exact tomato flourish on a spike of greedy prawns
if a base were dug moussaka Al unwraps the biscuit in you
drummer moral bombs excepted every turning bends away
running off a cross the troubled hey do you what can I say to you
what can I say to you what can I say to you
Chinese Bones
Riff:
e:--0-0---0---0-----------|
B:-4----4--4-4------------|
Watching Romeo dissolve I was tempted to join him
by the mirror of the lake where the statues unfurled
I had never seen a man so abuse his reflection
as the light shines through your Chinese bones
watching Juliet unrobe I would hasten toward her
but around her feet I sat that her serpent was curled
and her eyeballs had rolled up so her pupils had vanished
and the light shines through your Chinese bones
as the light shines through your Chinese bones
I met an interesting dwarf and I told him a story
as he walked towards the East then the shadow was right
something Shakespeare never said was 'you've got to be kidding'
as the light shines through your Chinese bones
as the light shines through your Chinese bones
the line between us is so thin I might as well be you
and everywhere I've ever been I know you're going to
Chinese bones Chinese Bones
Globe of Frogs
The Shapes Between Us Turn to Animals
(Guitar isn't there, but can be played as an A(5) throughout the verse)
Bass Riff: or
A:-------5-3-0----------- D:-------0-------------|
E:-0-3-5----------------- A:-----0---3-----------|
E:-0-3-------0---------|
Desires muck and algae were the shadows on the wall
glasses shatter ornaments on to the ground they fall
our hair like anemone's that wave beneath the seas
our fingers are like the fingers of baboons up in the trees
A(5)
and the shapes between us turn into animals
B(7)
the shapes between us
The lion is your anger as it smashes up the chair
the zebra is my answers as your pounding up the stairs
that's black and white and yes and no and can't make up it's mind
when you gonna see that love is dumb as well as blind
oh the shapes between us turn into animals
the shapes between us
when the night is over and the dawn comes shining through
everything is smashed to bits including me and you
the animals are snoring open-mouthed inside the cage
waiting for the wine to turn and ache into a rage
'cause the shapes between us turn into animals
the shapes between us
Flesh Number One
Intro/Riff:
e:-4-2-0---0-------------|
B:-------3---3-----------|
(I think that the chords are mainly A and D, but I'm not sure enough to post)
There's a house burning down on the radio, but
we're in love we don't mind we're as far as I can tell
everyone worries so much about themselves
there's nothing happening to you that means anything at all
there's a plane crashing down on the studio, but
we're in luck we're not there so we're somewhere else instead
everyone wishes so much upon themselves
there's not a thing that you can do that'll make me come again
there's a house burning down on the radio, but
we're in love we don't mind we're as far as I can tell
everyone worries so much about themselves
there's nothing happening to you that means anything at all
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