Key: E minor
Verse 1
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She was fur
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ther than her father
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But I was really rather
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Partial to the way.
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To the way she took her stand
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She glanced over his shoulder
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Urging me to be bolder
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I subtly tried to push past her old man
Verse 2
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But he stepped sideways firmly
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A prop forward from Burnley
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I felt like I'd walked into a brick wall
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He menacingly whispered:
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"Sonny Jim,
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I know exactly where you've been
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Stop now or believe me - you will fall"
Verse 3
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She was a preacher's daughter
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A rugby playing porter
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Who'd become a wealthy
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hotelier
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Before he got the calling
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That fuels his stonewalling
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Now he wants to put me my derriere
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Verse 4
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Oh yeah, the wages of sin
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There's a big fat bloke trying to do me in
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Well I can't hide and I can't run
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He's chasing me around with an old shotgun
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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Well it was some time later, that
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I overheard her pater
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Holding forth and splendidly well
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G
oiled:
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"Where there's muck
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there's brass
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And I'll tell you now no lass
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Of mine will be sullied or despoiled
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By a rotten little Herbert
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My princess made of sherbert
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A lavender, my cupcake,
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coo ca choo"
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My chance's get ting slimmer
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My hopes were going dimmer
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So I grabbed her and I took her in the loo
Verse 6
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She was a preaches daughter
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And I really didn't oughta
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Have taken her and done what I have done
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He wants to take me to the cleaners
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For previous misdemeanours
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And get me up the aisle with his shotgun
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And take me up the aisle
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with his shotgun
Verse 7
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Oh yeah, the wages of sin
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There's a big fat bloke trying to do me in
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Well I can't hide and I can't run
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He's chasing me around
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with an old shotgun
Verse 8
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Yeah, yeah, the wages of sin
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There's a big fat bloke trying to do me in
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Well I can't hide and I can't run
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He's chasing me around with an old shotgun
Interlude 2
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Verse 9
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He's an antique shotgun
Outro 1
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