Three Chord Trick Lyrics

Well the boys in the band are saying they need some more tunes

They wanna make another record and a deadline looms

So I said 'OK, no pressure, see what I can do

But the cupboard's bare, ain't no fragments there for me to chew

Got to get away, take a little time, have a rootle round, let me see what I can find

So I'm sitting on the beach, watching as the sun goes down

It's sinking real fast I think it's just about to drown

There's stuff going round in my head, like a record's stuck

It's making no sense, this time I think I'm out of luck

Not much happening underneath my hat

I keep coming up with the same old crap

So I found a little tune, and I mumbled me some words

About the dumbest set of words you ever heard

No story, even less of a plot

When a little voice pipes right up saying 'you know what!

It isn't clever, it isn't slick, but who cares if it's just another Three Chord Trick'!

I'll tell you right now there'll be a long, long time to wait

This time there ain't gonna be no fancy middle eight

A bit of rhythm, maybe a couple of good rhymes

It only takes four minutes, gonna save a lot of time.

It's got a hook and a guitar lick, who cares if it's just another Three Chord Trick

Let the guitar player make the B string squeal,

Gets to think his guitar is called 'Lucille'

Let the bass player do somethin' glorious

Light a candle to the shrine of St Pistorius

Let the tom-tom rumble and the cymbal twitch

The drummer gets to play like he's Buddy Rich

We really wanna do it, wonder if we can

Sound just a little bit like Steely Dan?

Just another Three Chord Trick