Tripod - Adelaide's OK

Transcribed by Rob
rebowman@utas.edu.au

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      G9Everybody (x2323x@1)used to say,  
      G9That (x2323x@1)Adelaide was kind of scary,  
    GBut (320003@1)I never felt that way.  
      
      G9And (x2323x@1)when you rode the Glenelg tram,  
      G9It (x2323x@1)used to shake as it moved over,  
GUnmarked (320003@1)graves.  
      
    DBut (xx0232@1)I just think,  
 AIt's (x02220@1)bad workmanship.  
      
      GWe're (320003@1)smoothing out the problems,  
      DAs (xx0232@1)we go in Adelaide.  
    GThe (320003@1)ones that we can't solve,  
DThen (xx0232@1)we're just burying.  
      
       BmIf (x24432@1)the city is like beef jerky,  
   EmAs (022000@1)everyone always says.  
      GThen (320003@1)we've added some salt,  
 AAnd (x02220@1)we've...  


A(throughout spoken part)
Guess we've, sort of, levelled it out...  
Yeah...  
Oh, no, no, no, we've taken out salt.  
Why?  
'Cause beef jerky is salty.  
Quite salty.  
Oh, okay.  
Don't know why you'd want to have more salt.  
It's a weird metaphor, that one.  
Yeah.  
Yeah, it's a strange one.  
      
      G9Everybody (x2323x@1)used to say,  
      G9That (x2323x@1)the old Van Morrison ad was better,  
    GBut (320003@1)I never felt that way.  
      
      G9I (x2323x@1)prefer my tourist dollars,  
      G9To (x2323x@1)go towards some imitation,  
GSession (320003@1)guy.  
      
DDoing (xx0232@1)a rip-off,  
     AOf (x02220@1)a good song.  


A(throughout spoken part)
I hate that!  
I know, it's just cheap, isn't it?  
Terrible!  
Absolutely! And then I like when they change the melody just 
enough so it's, like, a different song, but you know what 
they're basically trying to rip off.  
Yeah, exactly.  
They should just write their own bloody song.  
Yeah, I so agree.  
      
      GWe're (320003@1)smoothing out the problems,  
      DAs (xx0232@1)we go in Adelaide.  
      GWe're (320003@1)scaling down the boringness,  
      DIn (xx0232@1)an understated way.  
      
       BmIf (x24432@1)the city was like bread pudding,  
   EmAs (022000@1)everyone always says.  
   GThen (320003@1)we've added a few more raisins,  
  AAnd (x02220@1)we've...  
      
A(throughout spoken part)
Put in... nutmeg...  
Nutmeg!  
Yeah, nutmeg!  
D'you put in nutmeg, in bread pudding?  
Absolutely.  
Really?  
'Cause it's a spicy kind of dessert.  
Right.  
Yeah.  
But not in a savoury way, like, it's not a chilly sort of...  
No, no. It's just aromatic.  
I've never understood that metaphor - a city like bread pudding.  
      
  Bm(Robotic) (x24432@1)Adelaide is still shit,  
DAdelaide (xx0232@1)is still shit.  
EmAdelaide (022000@1)is still shit,  
GPerth (320003@1)is much worse though.  


      GWe're (320003@1)smoothing out the problems,  
      DAs (xx0232@1)we go in Adelaide.  
      GWe've (320003@1)knocked down Magic Mountain,  
DAnd (xx0232@1)put flats up.  
      
Good on ya.  
      
       BmIf (x24432@1)the city is like Bob Hope,  
   EmAs (022000@1)everyone always said.  


      GWell, (320003@1)let's not use that metaphor,  
       A'Cause (x02220@1)that guy's dead.  
      
(G   D) (You get the idea)
We're smoothing out the problems...  
We're smoothing out the problems...  
We're smoothing out the problems...  
... As we go in Adelaide.  
... As we go in Adelaide.  
... As we go in Adelaide.  
We're smoothing out the problems...  
We're smoothing out the problems...  
We're smoothing out the problems...  
... As we go.  
... As we go.  
Smooth...  
Smooth...  
Smooth...  
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Smooth...