Standard (EADGBE)

Get in line, keep in time with the Drum

 & don't forget you're nothing yet but water.

 Are you coming to or coming from

 the understanding that I'm handing it to you?

 Or is that a job you don't dare do?

 Hey, my pretty flower, there's a letter for you

 you'll find it on the shelf

 Well though it was posted in Calcutta

 I know it's just another that you've written to yourself

We watched a distant drummer flashing

on the beat in all his parrot fashions.

Get in line keep in time with the Drum

 & Don't forget you're nothing yet but water

 Don't move your feet until the next beat comes

 One of the laws says pause between

 I would hate to make the game seem mean

 Hey my pretty flower can you guess where I've been?

 Can you guess at all?

 Well I've been to your rooms and learned

 you have all the mirrors turned against the wall.

Bridge*:- - B - - - - - - - Am - - -

We watched a distant drummer flashing

on the beat in all his parrot fashions.

- - -

" for Drum!"

Listen now to the sound of the Drum -

 & don't forget we're nothing yet but water.

 It won't be pleasant when the present time is done

 testing nightly 'neath a sprightly summer moon

 your spirit like a jelly in a spoon.

 Hey ma pretty flower there's a cat in the room

 & it's not the type you're used to

 Though I think I led it to the sink

& tried to make it drink

 it refused to.

woohlalalaalalalalalalala

Bridge

(all Barre Chords:)

One one money two one show three la la la la Be- four wanna go

Sorry I can't understand what Dagmar Krause is singing here, but these chords work!

The Drum by Slapp Happy

From: Casablanca Moon/Desperate Straights