Key: Bb major
Verse 1
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F
Em
This story really started back in 1963,
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Eb
in those early days,
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D
but three years up at Oxford
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C
F
C
made me change my ways.
G
Em
So if you'd care to listen,
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D
Em
I'll tell you if I may,
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Em
how tragedy befell me on
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G
D
Everyone assembled in the
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D
convocation hall,
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Em
students and their par ents,
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D
gents and ladies all.
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Em
Nervously I waited,
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D
in mortarboard and gown,
G
D
Em
for the Dean to call my name.
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D
Next student, Charlie Brown.
there came a drunken shout,
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G
and through the door came
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D
with a crate of stout.
Then a coachload of relations
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C#
D
staggered into view, singing,
Charlie Brown in Liverpool,
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D
we're really proud of you!
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Em
Professors, Lords and Ladies,
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A
really looked askance,
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G
when Mother clambered
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C
on the stage
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C
D
I'm at Oxford now, you know.
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C
D
Look at the state of my old mate,
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G
the knees down, but they're brown.
We want our degree,
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D
G
D
Em
not a drunken lady's
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D
fat and hairy knees.
G
Em
On hearing this I leapt up and
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C#
D
gave the chap a clout,
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C
that's my ma you're talking about.
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G
Soon everyone was fighting,
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C
C#
pandemonium broke out,
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G
But unperturbed Mother Brown
Em
C
D
gaily danced throughout.
D
C
Bb
Teary, teary, teary me,
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C
now I won't get my degree
mate's head
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C
G
Knees down, mutter, prowl
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C
was in a sorry state
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D
G
Em
An d I need hardly tell you,
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G
Em
And now I'm on the old King Cole
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G
Just because my mother
Em
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D
couldn't keep him down
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Bb
Need you be so working class
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C
G
Get a mother off your knees
Knees down but they're proud
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Bb
Look at the state of my old mate
D
G
Her knees down but they're proud
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TunerE A D G B E
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