Key: D minor
Verse 1
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Well we were heroes then,
And the girls were all pretty
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And a uniform was a lucky charm,
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Bought you the key to the city
We used to dance the
whole night through
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While Al Bowlly sang "The
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Very Thought Of You"
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Now Bowlly's in heaven
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and I'm in limbo now
Verse 2
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Well I gave my youth to king
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and country
But what's my country done for me
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But sentenced me to misery
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I traded my helmet
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and my parachute
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For a pair of crutches and a demob suit
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Al Bowlly's in heaven and
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I'm in limbo now
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Verse 3
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Hard times, hard hard times
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Hostels and missions and
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dosser's soup lines
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Can't close me eyes on
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a bench or a bed
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For the sound of some battle
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raging in my head
Verse 4
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Old friends, you lose so many
You get run around, all over town
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The wear and the tear,
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Oh it just drives you down
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St Mungo's with its
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dirty old sheets
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Beats standing all day
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Down on Scarborough Street
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Al Bowlly's in heaven and I'm in limbo now
Interlude 1
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Can't stay here, you
Verse 5
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got to foot-slog
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Once Once in a blue moon
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you might find a job
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Sleep in the rain,
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you sleep in the snow
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When the beds are all taken
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You've got nowhere to go
Verse 6
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Well I can see me now,
I'm back there on the dance floor
Oh with a blonde on me arm,
red-head to to spare
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Spit on my shoes and shine in me hair
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And there's Al
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Bowlly, he's up on a stand
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Oh that was a voice
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and that was a band
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Al Bowlly's in heaven and
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I'm in limbo now
Outro 1
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