Are You Receiving Me? chords by Ralph McTell

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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I stopped
a man the other night
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Saying isn't a beautiful sky
And although he agreed
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it was just to please me
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I could tell that by the look in his eye
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And his look

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Verse 2

got bolder

looking over his shoulder

At me as he quickened his step

So I didn't take his hand

as I had planned

I threw a stone instead.

Verse 3
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And went la, la, la, la, la,
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La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
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There's a house I know
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where roses grow
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I was there the other day.

Verse 4
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And I seen this chick
coming down the road
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She was coming my way
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So I  picked a rose and stuck
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it under her nose
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She said, "What about my hay fever".
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Then this man

Verse 5
came out
and he started to shout
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He wasn't very happy either.
La, la, la, la, la,
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La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
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Interlude 1

Verse 6
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A little while ago one Saturday night
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I was happy and drunk as could be.
A policewoman come up and she said
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That night the cells would sober me
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I said I

Verse 7
ain't be in bars I got
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drunk on the stars
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You can't pin nothing on me
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Then she smiled and I said "Oh,
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kiss me instead".
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She said "I can't I'm on duty".

Verse 8
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La, la, la, la, la,
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La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
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la,
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I was in the park, it was just before dark
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And there grows a tree of mine.

Verse 9
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And I see this girl she was
walking her dog
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Around the football pitch line.
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I said "You see this tree
well it belongs to me
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I'd like to give it to you".
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And  then

Verse 10
she said "Cheers
although it's been mine for years
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It was a very nice thing to do".
I went la, la, la, la, la,
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La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
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la.