Singer’s Hampstead Home
Released in 1988 by Virgin Records
Transpose
INTRO
G7
Fmaj7
G7
Fmaj7
G7
C
G7
Am7
VERSE 1
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Fmaj7
Got a heart-shaped swimming pool
G7
Fmaj7
Broken heart and a swimming po
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ol
C
G7
Am7
G7
Fmaj7
Big house and a running joke
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Fmaj7
Big joke everybody can
G7
come and
C
see
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Am7
G7
Fmaj7
Pop songs and happy ends
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Fmaj7
You know they’re dead but you still preten
G7
d
C
G7
Am7
G7
Fmaj7
Planet Earth’s on the telephone
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Fmaj7
Say goodbye, say he won’t be
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home, not
C
ever
G7
Am7
G7
And the
Fmaj7
reign
G7
Of the
Fmaj7
vain
G
Is a
C
pain
CHORUS 1
G
Sin
D
ger’s
G7sus4
Hampstead
Cmaj7
home
Am
Waiting for the blows to
D7
fall
Am7
They don’t hurt at
D
all
G
Sin
D
ger’s
G7sus4
Hampstead
Cmaj7
home
Am
Snoopers underneath the
D7
bed
Am7
Void in singer’s
D
head
VERSE 2
G7
Fmaj7
He’s crawling home to his golden bath
G7
Fmaj7
Drags his face on the gravel pa
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th
C
G7
Am7
G7
Fmaj7
He only had blank lines to say
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Fmaj7
But he said them in a witty and
G7
stylish
C
way
G7
Am7
G7
And the
Fmaj7
reign
G7
Of the
Fmaj7
vain
G
Is a
C
pain
CHORUS 1
G
Sin
D
ger’s
G7sus4
Hampstead
Cmaj7
home
Am
Waiting for the blows to
D7
fall
Am7
They don’t hurt at
D
all
G
Sin
D
ger’s
G7sus4
Hampstead
Cmaj7
home
Am
Snoopers underneath the
D7
bed
Am7
Void in singer’s
D
head
INTERLUDE
G7
Fmaj7
G7
Fmaj7
G7
C
G7
Am
D
CHORUS 2
G
Sin
D
ger’s
G7sus4
Hampstead
Cmaj7
home
Am
Going down the gospel
D7
road
With
Am7
all the old frauds and
D7
bores
G
Sin
D
ger’s
G7sus4
Hampstead
Cmaj7
home
Am
They will never have their
D7
fill
Of
Am7
sliding down their sacred
D7
hill
OUTRO
G7
And the
Fmaj7
strain
G7
On the
Fmaj7
lame
G7sus4
Such a
C/G
shame