Vanity Press chords by Graham Parker

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Verse 1
D 
This  (D major) one's called
Vanity
A 
Bm 
A 
D 
Bm 
A 
 (A major) Press.  (B minor)  (A major)  (D major)  (B minor)  (A major) 
Em 
Bm 
 (E minor)  (B minor) 
A 
Em 
 (A major)  (E minor) 
Bm 
A 
You've  (B minor) got to be a mem (A major) ber
Em 
D 
Before  (E minor) they let you in (D major) 
Bm 
A 
You can (B minor) 't get a word in edge (A major) wise
Em 
D 
Unless you  (E minor) shout above the pen  (D major) 
Bm 
A 
Your  (B minor) heart's gotta be in the wrong  (A major) place
Em 
D 
The  (E minor) tension's gotta be thin  (D major) 
Bm 
A 
Don't  (B minor) fall for the old  (A major) trap
Em 
Of  (E minor) self -publishing
G 
A 
D 
You're  (G major) not work (A major) ing for the  (D major) vanity press
G 
Can you deliv (G major) er something
A 
D 
 (A major) that'll  (D major) pass the test?
G 
A 
Gotta have  (G major) more hoes  (A major) than
D 
your old  (D major) string fest
B 
Gotta be  (B major) a puff piece that
Em 
E 
only  (E minor) shows  (E major) the best
B 
Have the boy  (B major) next door and
E 
Em 
it's  (E major) great suc (E minor) cess
E 
A 
 (E major) Of getting mar (A major) ried to the
girl next door
Bm 
A 
You've  (B minor) got to own every chan (A major) nel
Em 
D 
If you  (E minor) wanna own every mind  (D major) 
Bm 
You gotta wear  (B minor) a skirt by
A 
Chanel  (A major) 
Em 
Or a  (E minor) suit by
D 
Primaline  (D major) 
Bm 
A 
If  (B minor) you want to make the next is (A major) sue,
Em 
D 
you bet (E minor) ter get your skates on,  (D major) boy.
Bm 
A 
With a  (B minor) premise as thin as tis (A major) sue,
Em 
you're  (E minor) bound to get employed.
G 
A 
D 
 (G major) Now you're  (A major) working for the  (D major) vanity press,
G 
A 
D 
need  (G major) a conscience  (A major) on the  (D major) editor's desk.
G 
A 
You gotta back  (G major) up your facts  (A major) 
D 
or you  (D major) shall reject.
B 
E 
Gotta be  (B major) a piece that only  (E major) shows the best
B 
Not the  (B major) one next door,
Em 
and it's  (E minor) great success
E 
A 
 (E major) Of being bet (A major) ter than the one next door
G 
A 
Yeah  (G major)  (A major) 
D 
Van (D major) ity
G 
A 
Press  (G major)  (A major) 
D 
Van (D major) ity
G 
A 
Press  (G major)  (A major) 
D 
Van (D major) ity
A 
Press  (A major) 
Bb 
Bm 
 (B flat major) Don't  (B minor) get clever,
G 
keep a  (G major) real tight tether
Em 
Bm 
They  (E minor) can  (B minor) bump you over through
G 
the  (G major) spots and weather
A 
Send you  (A major) over to the boys next door
Bm 
A 
If  (B minor) you wanna make the dead (A major) line
Em 
D 
Make sure  (E minor) your line is dead  (D major) 
Bm 
A 
If  (B minor) you got any bright  (A major) ideas
Em 
Keep  (E minor) them in your head
G 
A 
D 
 (G major) Cause you're working  (A major) for the  (D major) very best
G 
A 
Leave  (G major) your conscience  (A major) 
D 
on the  (D major) editor's desk
G 
A 
D 
Now the  (G major) anti -medi (A major) a is the  (D major) vanity press
B 
In a ficti (B major) tious world,
E 
you can't in (E major) vent the rest
Em 
B 
Em 
 (E minor) That's  (B major) all you need to pass  (E minor) the test
A 
An (A major) d sell it to the guy next door
G 
A 
Yeah, we're  (G major) all  (A major) working
D 
for the  (D major) vanity press
G 
A 
Leave  (G major) your conscience  (A major) 
D 
on the  (D major) editor's desk
G 
A 
D 
Now the an (G major) ti -media  (A major) is the  (D major) vanity press
A 
So  (A major) sell it to the guy next door
Sell it to the guy next door
You gotta sell it to the guy next door
Yeah, sell it to the guy next door
You gotta sell it
You gotta sell it
You gotta sell it to the guy next door
Sell it, sell it
Sell it to the guy next door
Meanwhile, I'm still thinkin'
about what I just saw
Yeah, me and my jaw dropped
Sell it, you better sell it
Sell it to the guy next door
Yeah, you gotta sell it
Yeah, sell it
Sell it to the guy
One, two, three, four
G 
A 
D 
We  (G major) are out work (A major) in' for the  (D major) vanity press
G 
A 
You know it makes sense.  (G major)  (A major) 
D 
 (D major) I'm going to do something from,
oh by the way,
Songs
With
No
Consequences is not
just my new album, it's
The
Figs' as well, they play on it.
A 
That's,  (A major) you know, where the sort of, you know,
A 
I try to write  (A major) all these dumb songs, you know,
but it's turned out to be a bit
A 
cleverer than I  (A major) thought.
A 
Clever lads, clever, clever lads.  (A major) 
We're going to do something from
Howling
A 
Wind, my first album.  (A major) 
This one, the figs were just, you know,
figlets when I made this album.
And our
Fig du
Jour tonight,
Brett
Rosenberg, was just a twinkle in his
dad's eye when I made this album.
In fact, this shirt is older than
Brett is, I swear to
God.
I found it in the attic the
other day, pulled it out.
Ian
Dury.
These, yeah.
It's on the back.
Yeah.
The lates, great.
These pants I found as well, they're getting a bit thin here,
you can see my leg through
them.
They're probably older than
Brett as well, so you know,
some relics up here, well there's
a relic up here on stage,
what am I talking about?