In The Smallest Hours chords by Harry James Angus

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Intro 1

The

Verse 1
backyard is small
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and the sun beats down
The concrete is hard
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and the grass is brown
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Am 
You turn over the soil
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Em 
with a short -handled spade
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Dm 
That you found out the back
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C 
of your shop in the lane
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So you turn the soil
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and you plant the seed
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And when you've
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gone to sleep,
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there's a little flash of green
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in the smallest hours.
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The shop it is bare,
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and the sign is old.
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G 
Out the front it says butchers,
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but you're selling alcohol
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Em 
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Armenian wine and
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Nigerian rum
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You're buying from criminals
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C 
and  selling to bums
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Em 
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And when you get home
Em 
on a hot summer's night
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You go out to the back porch
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C 
and turn off the lights
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And breathe the fresh air
Bm 
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and   everything's green
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C 
You whistle as you piss
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beside the lemon tree
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F 
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In the smallest hours
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And now you are old
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and the children survived
All the bad jokes
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and now it's just you and the wife
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Em 
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She sleeps by your side
Em 
and she snores like a lion
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She snores through the good times,
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she snores through the strife
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And now you are poor,
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but she sleeps like a   queen
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As you smoke a cigarette
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under the lemon tree
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F 
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In the smallest hours
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The coffin is small
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and the rain pours down
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The hole fills with mud
as they lower you down
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Em 
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And we all shed a   tear,
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we all loved you so dearly,
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then off to the bowls club
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for sandwiches and whiskey,
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and darkness descends
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across the cemetery,
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above where you sleep
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there's a little flash of green
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In the smallest hours
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F 
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