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Song title: Graham Parker - Platinum Blonde

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Pre>intro - country picking oohs  g	em  c	 d

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Stuff comes down from the golden triangle on ferries from denmark to helsingborg
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The band strikes up but theyre out of time on synthesiser and washboard
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Wooden tulips grow by the roadside made in a factory in jonjoping
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Fake glass baubles hang in the station just like the passengers imitation
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Then it hits you she was just the dregs all you wanna do now is break her legs
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Kick that brunette into a pond replace her with a

Chorus
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Platinum blonde, platinum blonde, platinum blonde, platinum blonde

Theres a secret world that you cannot enter its in the center of the darkest night
Shes waiting there with a set of works a swedish passport and something white
She walks past but you cant form a whistleeven her lips look artificial
You wanna follow her but you cant swallow her act it seems so superficial
Now youve shed the old one like a worn out shoe
It was all your fault but you blame her too
You know its phoney but at least its new and it comes from a bottle like

Chorus repeat last part of intro repeat with solo

And in your heart theres a new addiction another friction that you cant resolve
She seemed alive but she is just a cipher an imaginary postcard that just dissolved
Endless sunsets glow in the distance painted by picassos assistants
Perfect people travel in volvos into the sunsets into the distance
Youre just a passenger shes not a ticket a foreign stamp youve got to lick it
Put it in the mail box put it in the failbox
You never seem to learn from the school of hard knocks
Then she walks past and laughs at the pond
You cant break a heart that doesnt respond, like

Chorus repeat	intro picking /pre>