Five O'Clock World chords by The Proclaimers

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Verse 1
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Up ev'ry
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morning just to keep a job
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I gotta fight my way through
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the hustling mob,
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Sounds of the city pounding
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in  my brain
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While another day goes
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down the drain.
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But it's a five o'clock world
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when the whistle blows,
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No one owns a piece of my time.
And there's a five o'clock
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me inside my clothes,
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Thinking that the world looks fine.
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Yeah! Adalee!

Verse 2
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Trading my time for the pay I get
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Living on the money that
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I ain't made yet,
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Gotta keep goin' gotta make my way
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But I live for the end of the day.
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'Cause it's a five o'clock world
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when the whistle blows,
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No one owns a piece of my time.
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And there's a long haired
girl who waits, I know,
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To ease my troubled mind.
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Yeah! Adalee!
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Verse 3
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In the shelter of her arms
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ev'rything's o.k.
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She talks and the world goes slipping away,
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And I  know the reason I can still go on
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When ev'ry other reason is gone.
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In my five o'clock world
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she waits  for me,
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Nothing else matters at all.
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'Cause ev'ry time my baby smiles at me,
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I know that it's all worthwhile,
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yeah