Lyrics Heat Treatment - Graham Parker, The Rumour

Heat Treatment

pre>thanks to robert watson robert@gcmac.demon.co.uk
For a complete revision of this chart.
Robert’s chart has the em over the word «treatment»…
I like playiong g g em as below.
try it (both ways) and
Let me know what you prefer.
Intro: horns over g em g em g em c d (twice)
Bass: (g d e e d e d) x 3 c d
G (g) em g em
Heat treatment baby sweet treatment baby
G em c d Heat treatment while the flame is burning
G em g em Heat treatment baby sweet treatment baby
G em c d Heat treatment while the world is turning
G em g em c d Around round around round around
G c d g Now when the sun fades out and the street lights rise
G c d g News makes print and a baby cries
G c d g That’s when you might find me waiting on the day
G c d g Uh huh baby i’m wasting away
Repeat chorus
Well a out in the jungle there’s a war going down
You wind up eating all the friends you’ve found
But you know and i know and it’s understood
Let’s get out while the gettings good
Chorus (then after «the world is turning»)
Bridge
Am d I tried to eat but i could not swallow
Am d Mouth got dry and my tongue got hollow
Am d em
When you call babe you know i’ll follow
C d g In your love baby i want to wallow yeah
G g g c d Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah — yeah eah
F g f g f g c d a Eah --- huh
(modulates to a)
A f#m
I want to burn baby (six times)
A f#m d e I want to burn while the flame is burning
The riff played here by the bass and guitar sounds like
F# f e a e f f# repeated with an extra a sometimes before the e f f#
In tab on the bottem 2 strings
Repeat chorus with a f#m, d e and fade /pre>