Key: C minor
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Verse 1
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whose only luxury is the sugar in his tea
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Teaches history at High
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Worthington School
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His common room technique suitably restrained,
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though maybe too cool
see the cricket ball fly
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Intently, like a strange demented
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bird towards the sun
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we've never seen you smile
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Tell me how come
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Ah well,
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sometimes it must get lonely
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Ah, but it's life and life only
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Verse 2
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Why didn't you say that you'd be so late
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The supper that I made is ruined
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again
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Standing by the stairs, not looking in her eyes,
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so stu pidly male
You've been with her again
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then turning on her side begins to cry
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He reaches for her hand, she shivers,
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but doesn't take it away
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Ah, for sometimes
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it does get lonely
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Ah, but it's life and life only.
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Verse 3
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Oh Smithy Smithers- Bell; clerk from
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Bournemouth thinks he very well may
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be next year in France
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he decides to risk a smile at Mr. Willoughby
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studiously averting his glance
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While Maurice is with the kid
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dering who will I be
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Ah, but sometimes it
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does get lonely
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Ah, but it's life and life
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Verse 4
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Ah, but it's life and life only
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Ah, but it's life and life only
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Ah, but it's life and life
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