John Lee chords by Fairport Convention
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Verse 1
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John Lee, your headache's growing,
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the cold wind's blowing
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But the sea's without a ripple
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John Lee, your forehead's damp,
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your muscles cramp
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And the sea can't use a cripple
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(Chorus)
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John Lee, you're turning
around your plate again
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Oh, John Lee
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John Lee, you're turning
around your plate again
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Oh, John Lee
John Lee's been made a freeman,
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his heart's a seaman
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But his flesh won't make a sailor
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Working in a big hotel,
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waiting for the bell
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That's ringing for his labour
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(Chorus)
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Em
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John Lee,
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your
chances are good,
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you better touch wood
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We think things must get better
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John Lee, you've a friend so true,
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she wants to help you
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Miss Keyes has sent a letter
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Em
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(Chorus)
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Em
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"Dear John, come
and work the Glen,
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just write me when
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And I'll send someone to meet you"
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John's gone to where he started from,
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he's not worked long, just beginning to belong
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"It hasn't been a very good day,
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the missus wants to halve my pay
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Close the door and douse the light,
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it's quiet at night when she's tucked in tight
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Sometimes I feel, when they're all in bed,
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it's al most like the whole world's dead
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So I lay me down to sleep,
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I pray thee Lord my soul to keep"
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(Chorus)
(Chorus)
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"The customary quiet of Babbacombe,
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a residential suburb of
Torquay, was greatly disturbed
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early on Saturday morning
An
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D the peaceful inhabitants roused
to a state of intense
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Alarm and ter ror by one of the
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most frightful tragedies
That human devilment could plan or
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human fiend could perpe-
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Trate. The name of the victim was Miss
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Emma Anne Whitehead
Keyes, an elder
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Ly lady of some sixty-
eight years. The name
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Of her home, the scene of her tragedy,
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was 'The Glen'. She
Was found early in the morning,
lying on her dining room
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Floor. Her throat had been horribly
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cut and there were three
Wounds on her head. It
Was evident that her murderer
Em
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had also
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Attempted to burn the corpse."
John Lee
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