Bean Counter - Graham Parker
Graham Parker

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


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


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


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Lyrics by Graham Parker

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