East Indian Princess chords by Loudon Wainwright III

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Verse 1
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East Indian princess lives
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in a western dream
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Happy like a child,
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her mother is a queen
You know she's safe as a cow
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on a Calcutta street
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This English way of life has
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got that other life beat

Verse 2
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And reading magazines,
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she sits in straightbacked chairs
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She's got a common welfare,
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she's got a queen that cares
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She's got meat on her bones,
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she doesn't starve at least
Not like the folks back home,
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not like the folks back east

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Interlude 1

Yeah, but this Indian is Eng

Verse 3
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lish,
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no matter how she tries
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You know the sari and the sandals,
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it's just a bad disguise
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She got a mark on her forehead,
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she got a stud in her nose
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Yeah, but this Indian is English
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and I'm afraid it shows

Verse 4
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'Cause you can see her at
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Wimpey's and on a movie queue line
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Her river's not the Ganges,
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it is the Serpentine
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East Indian princess,
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she got the western pain
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She got the western mind,
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that girl has gone insane