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Song title:       No One Was Like Vermeer
Original Album:	  Because Her Beauty Is Raw And Wild

Words and Music by Jonathan Richman
Copyright © 2007 Rockin' Leprechaun Music
Published by Rockin' Leprechaun Music

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:

[Play:  Dm - Am - Am7 | Gm7 - Gm - Am7 - Am]  [x2]


VERSE:
Dm             Am7     Dm        Am7
   Back in the days of Rembrandt
Dm             Am7         Dm  Am7
   Back in the time of old Jan Steen
Dm          Am7       Gm         Am7
All of them giants of shadow and light
    Gm         Am7     Dm
But no one was like Vermeer


[Play:  Dm - Am7 - Gm7 - Am7]


VERSE:
Dm                Am7      Dm      Am7
   Some paintings smell of joy and sweat
Dm                Am7           Dm   Am7
   Some paintings plain look so fine
Dm                Am7         Gm
   Some paintings are sad and passionate
                                  Am7
But Vermeer sends a chill up your spine
         Gm                         Dm   Am7   Dm   Am7
Yeah, Vermeer sends a chill up your spine


CHORUS:
   Dm
Vermeer was eerie, Vermeer was strange
He had a warm modern colour range
      Am7      Dm     Am7
As if born in another age
             Gm                   Dm
Like maybe a hundred or so years ago


[Play:  Dm - Bb  Gm - Am ]   [x4]


VERSE:
Dm                Am7          Dm       Am7
   What's this, a ghost in the gallery?
Dm                  Am7          Dm     Am7
   Great Scott! The martians are here!
      Dm             Am7       Gm          Am7
These strange little paintings next to the others
Gm         Am7     Dm
No one was like Vermeer


CHORUS:
   Dm
Vermeer was eerie, Vermeer was weird
He had his own way of doin' things
         Gm7             Am7                 Dm
With the paintings from another era, another era


[Play out over Dm - Am7]



CHORDS:
Dm    557765
Am    577555
Am7   575555
Gm7   353333
Gm    355333