Submitted by John D. Hayman jhayman@k12s.phast.umass.edu
 
INTRO  D       Bm      G (three times)  then   G       A
                                           
 B                      E
Sit by my window and look outside
A                              G#m   E
Wonder why a sun don't shine on me
B                           E
What's wrong with you, you stupid child
A                                         G#m       C#
Don't you think that I'm the one you're waiting to see
F#                             B
Don't talk too much cause she falls for the soft touch
D                              E
Makes her feel everything is secure
        G            A                D
Don't ever leave a footprint on the floor
 
 
CHORUS
   D                      Bm   G
   Don't bother with the local girls
   D                      Bm   G
   Don't bother with the local girls
   D                      Bm   G      G     A
   Don't bother with the local girls
 
        B                   E
She's probably halfwit she must be straight
A                                  G#m        E
Bound to have a mother who knows nothing but hate
 B                             E
Don't want to laugh I'd rather knock her down
A                                   G#m       C#
Standing at the bus stop where she waits each morning
F#                     B
So isolated that she thinks that the army
        D                       E
Is the place where a man oughta be
       G                 A                D
Don't bother with them they don't bother me
 
 
REPEAT CHORUS (plus)
    D                           G
   Don't bother with the.... local girls
 
BRIDGE
      A                 G                   A               G
They got the walk they got the talk  Right down without a flaw
    A            G                 G            A              D
At six oclock I got to stop My dreaming at the counter of the store
D                       Bm   G      D                       Bm   G
Don't bother with them
D                       Bm   G     G    A
 
B                        E
Without a doubt I gotta intercept
A                           G#m             E
Must be time someone went shouted in their ear
B                           E
You look all right in that cheap green dress
A                                      G#m          C#
But every time you swish it round you make me disappear
F#                   B
Yes I'm aware of exactly what I'm doing
D                      E
Making everything a mystery,
G                      A              D
Don't bother with it, it don't bother me
 
CHORUS
 
   (3 times) and fade
 
Here's the story of this transcription:
 
Someone (off list) emailed me for the lyrics so I wrote them out and
at the same time I wrote down a couple of the chords. Then John
(jhayman@k12s.phast.umass.edu) saw it and made the necessary
additions and corrections.
 
For a while we were playing Emaj7 instead of E in the first line,
(B) Sit by my window and (Emaj7) look outside, but the current
thought is that the E is correct.
 
John wrote: "In hind sight and sound, Emaj7 is wrong and E is right.
Although he's singing a Db, the rhythm guitar is clearly playing a
Dave Edmund's "monkey beat" E." (I play that E at fret 4 (476454))