Money in the Summer


Thanks for posting that Steve, its not one of Roy's songs that I've ever even thought of trying to work out. I tend to be attracted  to working on the songs with the twiddly guitar bits. I suspect this is cause a) I like em' and b) cos' it massages my guitar playing ego!!! 

I've tweaked the line with the "numb'er" bit and added in "than in" after it which was missing from your original post. I've also tweaked the spacing of the chords annotation which has got a bit messed up with the vagaries of e-mail but I bet it will mess up again

Thanks again

Graeme

On 6 Jul 2006, at 20:27, Chris A wrote:
Jim et al: I noticed that there's no version of You Don't Need Money on the site, so here is my version.  Please feel free to add corrections or improvements .  I can't make out the word or phrase in the third line that obviously isn't 'anumalin'.  Someone will know what this is. I hope the formatting of words and chords below doesn't get screwed up in the posting.  We'll see.  Hope this is helpful.  I would have loved to have
had this when I was part of the folky student population....

Good luck, Jim!   Cheers,  Chris

Money in the Summer      Roy Harper

Capo II 

Key: D relative to Capo — actual key is E
 
D                   A                G                         D
Nobody's got any money in the summer
D                        A        
Oh dear me what a terrible drag
     D                    A                     G                      D
I couldn't get very much  numb'er than in summer
Bb                     A                      Bb      A
Beseeching the rent man     to be soft as he can
                Dm                               A
Cause I've got a little money coming when I sell my MBE


All the folky student population wearing rucksacks
taking my meal ticket over the sea
and half the blasted idiots are stuck in Yugoslavia
with hardly a Dinar and looking no cleaner
than a Chinese wrestlers jockstrap cooked in chip fat on a greasy day
      

 H1 *              H2 *          H1           H2
and think what money could do for my tummy
and think what my tummy could do for my mind
and think what my mind could do for the world
    H1          H2    H2     H2
for the stars and infinity

 
has anybody got any money for this strummer
I won't need much in the parasol shade
but I could have used a million quid a year ago last summer
to grace the Bahamas in see-through pajamas
but never mind I'm worth two buns, a sherbet, and a liquorice root (a root-tee-toot-toot)


D        A      G                      D
nobody's got any money in the summer
 D                                                    A
oh dear me [spoken] and if I was stoned out my mind in the park I'd say that
 D            A                    G                          D
nobody needs any money in the summer
(no chord)              D                       A7           D2*
except of course for scoring on a sunny day.

 
H1 = harmonic on 12th fret above capo
H2 = harmonic on   7th fret above capo
D2 = D chord using Dm7 shape . That's an F shape fretting the first 3 strings only; leave the D string open. 1st finger covers the B & E strings on the 10th fret above capo, 2nd finger on the G string, 11th fret.

Verses 2 and 3 have the same structure as verse 1.  The bridge lines are all the same with extra strums on H2 over 'infinity'.

Hope this all makes sense

Posted: Fri - July 7, 2006 at 09:12 AM          

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