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Heat Treatment

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Graham Parker Canonical path: /graham-parker/heat-treatment Related lyric paths: 6
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Heat Treatment

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Thanks to Robert Watson [email protected]

for a complete revision of this chart.

Robert's chart has the Em over the word "treatment"...

I like playiong G G Em as below. Try it (both ways) and

let me know what you prefer.

CHORUS

Intro: Horns over G Em G Em G Em C D (twice)

Bass : (G D E E D E D) x 3 C D

G (G) Em G Em

Heat treatment baby sweet treatment baby

G Em C D

Heat treatment while the flame is burning

G Em G Em

Heat treatment baby sweet treatment baby

G Em C D

Heat treatment while the world is turning

G Em G Em C D

around round around round around

VERSE

G C D G

Now when the sun fades out and the street lights rise

G C D G

News makes print and a baby cries

G C D G

That's when you might find me waiting on the day

G C D G

Uh huh baby I'm wasting away

REPEAT CHORUS

VERSE

Well a out in the jungle there's a war going down

You wind up eating all the friends you've found

But you know and I know and it's understood

Let's get out while the gettings good

CHORUS (then after " the world is turning")

BRIDGE

Am D

I tried to eat but I could not swallow

Am D

Mouth got dry and my tongue got hollow

Am D Em

When you call babe you know I'll follow

C D G

In your love baby I want to wallow yeah

G G G C D

Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah - yeah eah

F G F G F G C D A

eah --- Huh

(modulates to A)

A F#m

I want to burn baby (SIX TIMES)

A F#m D E

I want to burn while the flame is burning

The riff played here by the bass and guitar sounds like

F# F E A E F F# repeated with an extra A sometimes before the E F F#

in tab on the bottem 2 strings

A ------0------ repeated

E 2-1-0---0-1-2

REPEAT CHORUS with A F#m, D E and fade

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