Indian Summer chords by Sandy Denny, Strawbs
Verse 1
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Let's take a look at a typical family
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living in Queen Victoria Square.
Major Duval and his wife
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and only daughter Ju liet live there.
There are souvenirs of old Kashmir
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in every corner
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And photographs of the family
in Bournemouth
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on their holiday last year
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Major Duval served his country in India
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for most of his twenty army years
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Always said that life in the army
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was quite the finest of careers
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Duval once had the privilege
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to shake the hand of Gandhi
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And always said a Brahmin friend
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was quite the very be
st a man could have
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Duly Duval was at college
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in Not tingham,
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studying anthropology
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She fell in love with a boy
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from Calcutta,
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Studying So ciology.
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She thought Ashok
was the kind of boy
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her father would be proud of.
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To have him as a son -in -law
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would make him quite the
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happiest of men.
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Ju nie wrote to her father and told him,
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Said she was sure he
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would be pleased.
Ashok's father had served
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in the Indian army
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When Hyderabad was seized.
As he read her letter,
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her father was quite horrified.
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My God, what would the neighbours say,
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Our daughter married to a coloured man?
Indian Summer
Sandy Denny, Strawbs
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