Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 23:31:11 +1100 (EST)
From: Daniel Meijer
To: [email protected]
Subject: CRD: Whitlams — «No Aphrodisiac»
«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:
Dm Bb Gm Am
—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:
Gm Am Dm
—————————
———3——5——6—
——-5——5——7—-
——5——7——7——
——————5———
—3——5—————-
Dm
A letter to you on a cassette
Bb
’cause we don’t write anymore
Dm
gotta make it up quickly —
Bb
there’s people asleep on the second floor
Gm Am Bb
There’s no aphrodisiac like loneliness
Gm Am Dm
truth, beauty, and a picture of you.
Dm Bb Dm Bb
Dm
You’ll be walking your dog in a few hours
Bb
I’ll be asleep in my brother’s house
Dm
You’re a thousand miles away
Bb
with food between your teeth
Gm Am Bb
Come up for summer, I’ve got a place near the beach
Gm Am Dm
There’s room for your dog
Gm Am Bb
There’s no aphrodisiac like loneliness
Gm Am Dm
truth, beauty, and a picture of you.
Dm Bb Dm Bb
Gm Am Bb
There’s no aphrodisiac like loneliness
Gm Am Dm
truth, beauty, and a picture of you.
Gm Am Bb
There’s no aphrodisiac like loneliness
Gm Am Dm
Youth, truth, beauty, fame, boredom, and a bottle of pills
Gm Am Dm
Gm Am Dm
There’s no aphrodisiac like loneliness
Gm Am Dm
You shouldn’t leave me alone
Gm Am Dm
There’s no aphrodisiac like loneliness
Gm Am Dm
Bare feet like a tomboy, and a crooked smile
Gm Am Dm
Truth, youth, beauty, fame, boredom, red hair, no hair, innocence,
Gm Am Dm
Saturday, and a picture of you
Gm Am Dm
A letter to you on a cassette
Gm Am Bb
You shouldn’t leave me alone
Gm Am Dm
Forty and shaved, sexy, wants to do it all day
Gm Am Dm
with a gun-totin’ trigger-happy trannie named Kinky Renee
Gm Am
Tired teacher twenty-eight seeks regular meetings
Dm
for masculine muscular nappy-clad brutal breeding
Gm Am
while his wife rough-wrestles with a puppy all
Dm Gm
aquiver on a wine-soaked strobe-lit asiatic hall of mirrors
Am Dm
and a dash of loneliness
Gm Am Dm
There’s no aphrodisiac quite like it
Gm Am Dm
Truth, youth, beauty, fame, boredom, red hair, no hair, innocence,
Gm Am Dm
impunity, and a picture of you
Gm Am
I got a video setup me love you short time
Dm
she pay me suck his finger with some fine wine
Gm Am Dm
and a dash of loneliness
Gm Am Dm
Truth, youth, beauty, fame, boredom, red hair, no hair, innocence,
Gm Am Dm
awkwardness, impunity, and a picture of you.
Hope you enjoy this transcription — please let me know what you think!