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Verse 1

Lawrence Brown

Lawrence Brown was a family man

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Verse 2
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 (E minor) 
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Worked as hard  (C major) as any man  (G major) can (A major) 
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His wife  (E minor) was thin  (D major) 
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And his daugh (C major) ters were fat  (E minor) 
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And all day  (C major) long his daughters just sat  (B major) 
And watched their mother
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 (E minor)  (B major) scrub the floor (E minor) s
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An (B major) d do the  (E minor) other fam (B major) ily chores  (C major) 
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They  (B major) just sat  (E minor)  (B major) around indoors  (E minor) 
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 (B major) A

Verse 3
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 (E minor) bank clerks life  (D major) is bor (C major) ing  (E minor) is as hell
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It's even worse  (C major) when
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you're not feeling well  (A major) 
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 (E minor) He came home  (D major)  (C major) one afternoon  (E minor) 
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At four o'clock  (C major) on the
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second of June  (B major) 
With a cup of tea
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 (E minor) He went to  (B major) bed  (E minor) 
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He  (B major) took a book
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 (E minor) That he never  (B major)  (C major) read

Verse 4
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By  (B major) five o'clock  (E minor) Mr
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 (B major) Brown was  (E minor) dead
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The Doctor came  (D major) and
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with hardly  (C major) a look  (E minor) 
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He drew the sheet  (C major) and closed  (G major) the  (A major) book
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 (E minor) Mrs Brown  (D major) sat num (C major) b  and just stared  (E minor) 
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The only one  (C major) who really  (B major) cared
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She thought of all  (E minor) that she  (B major) had to do  (E minor) 
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And  (B major) wondered how  (E major) she  (E minor) 
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 (E major) would see  (B major) it through  (C major) 
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An (B major) d how she did it  (E major)  (E minor) no  (B major) one knew  (E major)  (E minor) 

Verse 5
D 
Her daughters  (D major) went out
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dan (C major) cing that night  (E minor) 
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A 
Staying home  (C major) didn't seem right  (A major) 
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 (E minor) Mrs Brown  (D major) was  (C major) left all alone  (E minor) 
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To sort the fu (C major) ture out on  (B major) her own
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She got a job  (E minor) in a week or  (B major) two  (E minor) 
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Em 
In an office  (B major) block  (E minor) with
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C 
a lousy  (B major) view  (C major) 
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 (B major) Of another block
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 (E minor) That was lousy  (B major) too  (E minor) 

Verse 6
Em 
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C 
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Six  (E minor) months later  (D major) poor  (C major) Mrs Brown  (E minor) 
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Had a council flat  (C major) in
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the middle  (B major) of Town  (A major) 
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Her  (E minor) youngest girl  (D major) had
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 (C major) ran off from home  (E minor) 
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Leaving her mother  (C major) to cope on  (B major) her own
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Her elder daughter  (E minor) quite
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 (B major) by chance  (E minor) 
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Had an  (F sharp minor) easy   (B major) life  (E major)  (E minor) in  the South  (B major) 
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of France  (C major) 
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 (B major) As a paid companion  (E major) 
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Em 
To a maid (B major) en Aunt  (E minor) 