Bean Counter - Graham Parker Lyrics - Singles - Graham Parker

Pre>in answer to the question about the groove this song is based on here 

Is a rough version. I'm not sure if it's right nor not. it's possibly I've made 

It (the chorus especially) needlessly over-complicated. it's probably quite simple 

For someone who can actually play a bit. 

Intro: 

Am / am / am / am / dus2 / dus2 / dus2 / a9 

Am 577555 

Dsus2 557755 

A9 557555 

Am / am / am / am / dus2 / dus2 / dus2 / a9 

Ci vil is ation 

Am / am / am / am / dus2 / dus2 / dus2 / a9 

Has come a long way 

D7 

Out of the mud where chitinous bugs 

Am / am / am / am / dus2 / dus2 / dus2 / a9 

Eat each other all day 

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Am / am / am / am / dus2 / dus2 / dus2 / a9 

Am / am / am / am / dus2 / dus2 / dus2 / a9 

[and so on for all the verses] 

Now we're in the clouds working overtime for our pay 

Countin' the numbers and being the bugs that eat each other today 

Sitting in an office in a publishing house 

Or in a big company working a computer clicking a mouse 

Pulling up your file checking your sales 

Meeting those quotas and accommodating voters that's the holy grail 

Chorus 

Am c d d7 dsus2 a9 

Cos it's a bean counter and if that don't fill you with terr or 

Am c d d7 dsus2 a9 

Bean counter. takin' the human out of the human err or 

In a glass tower uptown or downtown 

She's workin' every hour runnin' through your contract writing your deficit down 

She's downsizing everything including her brain 

Snackin' on potato chips smackin' her lips lickin' her pencil again 

Photos 

Chorus repeat 

From wall street to hong kong. chinee to chancery lane 

You're being rubber stamped your style is being cramped. it all comes out the same 

They're not being paid to think. that's not the idea 

And they never run out of red ink, get that particularly clear 

Chorus repeat 

Snackin' on potato chips givin' you a scan 

Deleting your account phasing you out in the trash can 

Now if you don't meet projections. if there ain't enough zeroes involved 

You'll get stamped rejections and then that problem is solved /pre>