Chords with lyrics
"No Aphrodisiac" by The Whitlams
Transcribed by Daniel Meijer
This song is very simple, harmonically, even with the embellishments of
the string section (Sydney's Fourplay - check them out!), but this doesn't
detract from the song's impact. Love Tim Freedman's lyrics!!
Chords as follows - played by piano or arpeggiated by guitar. These are
just the chords, voice them as you like, but on the CD, in the arpeggios,
the guitar plays all chords as barre chords:
DmDm Bb majorBb G minorGm A minorAm
--5---6---3---5----
--6---6---3---5----
--7---7---3---5----
--7---8---5---7----
--5---8---5---7----
--x---6---3---5----
The arpeggios are picked:
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
--------------------------
---------3------5-----6---
-------5------5------7----
-----5------7------7------
-----------------5--------
--3------5----------------
DmDm
A augmentedA letter to you ....
Bb majorBb
'cause we don't ...
DmDm
gotta make it up qui...
Bb majorBb
there's people asleep on ...
G minorGm A minorAm Bb majorBb
There's no ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
truth, beauty, and a ...
DmDm Bb majorBb DmDm Bb majorBb
DmDm
You'll be walking your ...
Bb majorBb
I'll be asleep ...
DmDm
You're a ....
Bb majorBb
with food ...
G minorGm A minorAm Bb majorBb
Come up for summer, I've ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
There's room ...
G minorGm A minorAm Bb majorBb
There's no ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
truth, beauty, ....
DmDm Bb majorBb DmDm Bb majorBb
G minorGm A minorAm Bb majorBb
There's no ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
truth, beauty, and a ...
G minorGm A minorAm Bb majorBb
There's no ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
Youth, truth, beauty, fame, ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
There's no ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
You shouldn't ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
There's no ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
Bare feet like a tomboy, ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
Truth, youth, beauty, fame, boredom, ....,
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
Saturday, and a ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
A augmentedA letter to you ....
G minorGm A minorAm Bb majorBb
You shouldn't ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
Forty and shaved, sexy...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
with a gun-totin' trigger-...
G minorGm A minorAm
Tired teacher twenty-...
DmDm
for masculine muscular ...
G minorGm A minorAm
while his wife rough-wrestles ...
DmDm G minorGm
aquiver on a wine-soaked strobe...
A minorAm DmDm
and a dash ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
There's no aphrodisiac ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
Truth, youth, beauty, fame, boredom, ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
impunity, and a ....
G minorGm A minorAm
I got a video setup me ...
DmDm
she pay me suck his finger ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
and a dash of l...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
Truth, youth, beauty, fame, boredom, red ...
G minorGm A minorAm DmDm
awkwardness, impunity...
Hope you enjoy this transcription - please let me know what you think!