It's A Fine Life chords by Lionel Bart

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Verse 1
Ab 
Ab 
 (A flat major) Small  (A flat major) pleasures,
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small  (D flat major) pleas (B flat minor) ures
Eb 
Ab 
 (E flat major) Who  would deny us  (A flat major) these?
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Not  (E flat major) me
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Gin  (A flat major) toddies - - large  (D flat major)  (B flat minor) 
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meas (E flat major) uress - -
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Eb 
No skimpin' if you  (B flat major) please!  (E flat major) 
Ab 
I rough  (A flat major) it,
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 (D flat major) I    love it
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Gb 
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F 
 (B flat minor) Life  (G flat major) is a game  (B flat minor) of    chance.  (F major) 
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F 
 (B flat minor) I      (D flat major) never tire  (E flat major)  (F major) of it - -
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F 
Bbm 
Eb 
 (B flat minor) Leading  (F major) this merry  (B flat minor) dance.  (E flat major) 
Ab 
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If  (A flat major) you don't mind  (E flat major) having
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to go without  (A flat major) things
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Ab 
It's a  (E flat major) fine  (A flat major) life.

Verse 2

It's a fine life.

Tho' it

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Verse 3

ain't all jolly old

pleasure outings...

It's a fine life

Verse 4
Eb 
 (E flat major) It's a fine life.
Db 
When you  (D flat major) got  someone to love
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Fm 
F 
You for (A flat major) get  your cares  (F minor) and strife  (F major) 
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F 
Let the  (E flat major) prudes look  (F major) down on us
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Eb 
 (F minor) Let  the  (B flat minor) wide  world  (E flat major) frown on us
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Eb 
Ab 
Eb 
It's a  (B flat minor) fine   (E flat major) fine  (A flat major) life  (E flat major) 

Verse 5

Who cares if

straightlaces

Sneer at us in the street?

Fine airs and fine graces

Verse 6

Don't have to sin to eat.

Verse 7

We wander through London

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Who knows what we many find?

Verse 9

There's pockets left undone

On many a behind.

If you

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don't mind taking

it as it turns out,

It's a fine life!

Verse 11

It's a fine life!

Keep the

Verse 12

candle burning

until it burns out

It's a fine life.

Verse 13
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Eb 
 (B flat minor) It's a fine  (E flat major) life.
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Though you  (D flat major) sometimes do come by
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Fm 
F 
The oc (A flat major) ca    (F minor) sional  (F major) black eye
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F 
You can  (E flat major) always cov (F major) er one
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Eb 
 (B flat minor) while he blacks the  (E flat major) other one
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Eb 
But you  (B flat minor) don't  (E flat major) dare cry.
Ab 
Ab 
 (A flat major)  (A flat major) 

Verse 14
Ab 
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Bbm 
No  (A flat major) flounces,  (D flat major) no   feather (B flat minor) s
Eb 
Ab 
No  (E flat major) frills and furbel (A flat major) ows
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All winds and  (D flat major) all   (B flat minor) weathers
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Bb 
Eb 
 (E flat major) Ain't good for  (B flat major) fancy clo'es  (E flat major) 

Verse 15

These trappings,

These ta'ers

These we can just afford.

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What future?

What ma'er s?

We've got our bed and

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board.

Verse 18

If you don't mind having

to deal with fagin

It's a fine life!

Verse 19

It's a fine life!

Though diseased

Verse 20

rats threaten

to bring the plague in

It's a fine life!

Verse 21

It's a fine life!

Verse 22

But the grass is green and dense

On the right side of the 'fence'.

And we

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take good care of it

That we get our share of it

And we don't mean pence.

Verse 24

No! If you don't mind having

to like or lump it...

It's a fine life

Verse 25

It's a fine life!

Tho' there's no tea- supping

and eating crumpet

It's a fine life!

Verse 26
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E 
 (E major) It's a  (B minor) fine  (E major) life!
D 
Not for me,  (D major) the happy home
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B 
Happy husband,  (A major)  (F sharp minor) happy wife  (B major) 
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A 
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Tho'  (F major) it some (A major) times  (F sharp minor) touches me...
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E 
...For the likes  (B minor) of such  (E major) as me...
Mine's a fine...