Globe Of Frogs Chords by Robyn Hitchcock #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: Terry Marks Globe of Frogs (the Album) by Robyn Hitchcock @ALBUM: Globe Of Frogs Globe Of Frogs by Robyn Hitchcock Note: The numbers in parentheses are the fret numbers of the chords. Ie. G(3) is G, Third Fret, Bar E style. Note: This is a very spotty sort of thing. Normally, I wouldn't bother posting it, but the Robyn Hitchcock directory doesn't seem to be growing much. I played 'Globe of Frogs' and this is what I got. Complicating things is the fact that some songs don't have much in the way of guitar, so sometimes included are a general key or bass. @SONG: 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 @SONG: 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 @SONG: Balloon Man This is on separate file on Nevada. I haven't found anything new about it, so I'll let this one alone. @SONG: Luminous Rose 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 @SONG: 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 @SONG: 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 @SONG: 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 @SONG: Globe of Frogs I'm sorry...I've got no ideas on this one. @SONG: 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 @SONG: Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis) 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 Thank You for your time. Sorry if this has disappointed. If someone would be kind enough to figure out the rest of it and post, I would be much obliged. Also, please, post if you've got it: *Lucifer Sam (Pink Floyd) *Flaming (Pink Floyd) *Vegetable Man (Pink Floyd/Soft Boys) *Surgery (Robyn Hitchcock) *Swan Lee (Syd Barrett) Thank You again. Terry Marks. a013645t@bcfreenet.lib
