Border song chords by James Yorkston

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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It's one three o 'clock, the bird clock called,
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and I shivered and I shuddered, half awake and my back was turned, but half asleep.
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I envisaged a rook, angry and ash -hooked, from coming down the chimney,
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anxious to peck at the eyes that had poked at the feet of the slumbering
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Scotsman and his confused partner.
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But our last know and our last day
was a jam of frozen walkers
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Slipping a slide in a rush to escape
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Our morning spent to no mention
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of north of the border
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And our last day was a jam
of frozen walkers
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Slipping a slide in a rush to escape
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Our morning spent to no mention of
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north of the border
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I'm drunk, I had hidden your clothes and you were
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walking fast and fast and struggling to find them
In this frozen room, hiding under the covers
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from this almost complete stranger
And when I woke,
you did not know where I was
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In the grey little room,
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I  could see my breath and your long dark hair
And your long thin back and it took
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me all of three seconds
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To remember where we were and who you
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were and why I was here
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Remember where we were, and who you were,
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and  why I was here
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Remember where we were, and who you were,
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an d why I was here
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Remember where we were, and who you were,
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and  why I was here
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What advice I'd give to someone so young
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Do not lead your life like mine
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Do not lend your life to somebody like me
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If I tip -elved on the gaps in
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my shy -studded blues
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It  became more amusing in
their upsetted tears
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The less sense they're making,
the more fun we're having
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Do  not care if I do not care
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Or we cannot afford to care
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As this is nothing just a blur
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Just a flicker, just a taster
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Of what is got to come
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This is nothing just a blur
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Just a flicker, just a taster
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Of what is got to come
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This is nothing just a blur
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Just a flicker, just a taster
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Of what is got to come
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This is nothing just a blur
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Is that liquor just a taster of
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what is not to come?
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Is it nothing just a blur, just a flicker,
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just a taster of what is not to come?
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Is it nothing just a blur, just a flicker,
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just a taster of what is not to come?