Big Black Smoke [LA Gran Humoreda] chords by The Kinks

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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She was sick
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and tired of country life.
A little country home,
A little country folk,
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Made her blood run cold.
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Now her mother pines her heart away,
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Looking for her child in
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the big black smoke,
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In the big black smoke.
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Verse 2
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Frailest, purest girl the world has seen,
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According to her ma, according to her pa,
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And everybody said,
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That she knew no sin and did no wrong,
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Till she walked the streets
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of the big black smoke,
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Of the big black smoke.
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Verse 3
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Well, she slept in caffs and coffee
bars and bowling alleys,
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And every penny she had
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Was spent on purple hearts and cigarettes.
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Verse 4
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She took all her pretty
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coloured clothes,
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And ran away from home
And the boy next door,
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For a boy named Joe.
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And he took her money for the rent
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And tried to drag her down in the
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big black smoke,
In the big black smoke.
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Verse 5
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In the big black smoke.
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In the
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big black smoke.
Outro 1
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