Key: E minor
Intro 1
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Strawbs -
Verse 1
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Lawrence Brown
Verse 2
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Worked as hard as any man can
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His wife was thin
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And his daughters were fat
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And all day long his daughters just sat
And watched their mother
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scrub the floors
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And do the other family chores
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They just sat around indoors
Verse 3
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bank clerks life is boring is as hell
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He came home one afternoon
With a cup of tea
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He went to bed
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That he never read
Verse 4
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By five o'clock Mr
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Brown was dead
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with hardly a look
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He drew the sheet and closed the book
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Mrs Brown sat numb and just stared
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The only one who really cared
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She thought of all that she had to do
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And wondered how she
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would see it through
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And how she did it no one knew
Verse 5
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dancing that night
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Staying home didn't seem right
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Mrs Brown was left all alone
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To sort the future out on her own
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She got a job in a week or two
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In an office block with
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a lousy view
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That was lousy too
Verse 6
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Six months later poor Mrs Brown
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the middle of Town
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Her youngest girl had
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ran off from home
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Leaving her mother to cope on her own
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by chance
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Had an easy life in the South
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of France
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As a paid companion
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To a maiden Aunt
Outro 1
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