Madame George chords by
Van Morrison
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Key: G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Down on Cyprus Avenue
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With a childlike vision leaping into view
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Clicking clacking of the high heeled shoe
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Ford and Fitzroy, and Madame George
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Marching with the soldier boy behind
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He's much older now
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with hat on drinking wine
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And that smell of sweet perfume
comes drifting through
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All the cool night air like Shalimar
Verse 2
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And outside they're making all the stops
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The kids out in the street
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collecting bottle-tops
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Gone for cigarettes
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and matches in the shops
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Happy taken Madame George
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Woah, that's when you fall
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Woah-wo-wo-wo-wo- woah
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That's when you fall
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Yeah, that's when you fall
Verse 3
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When you fall into a trance
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A sitting on a sofa
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playing games of chance
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With your folded arms
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and history books you glance
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Into the eyes of Madame George
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And you think you found the bag
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You're getting weaker
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and your knees begin to sag
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In a corner playing dominoes in drag
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The one and only Madame George
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Then from outside
Verse 4
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The frosty window raps
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She jumps up and says
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"Lord, have mercy I think that it's the cops"
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And immediately
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drops everything she gots
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Down into the street below
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And you know you gotta go
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On that train from Dublin up to Sandy Row
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Throwing pennies
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at the bridges down below
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And the rain, hail, sleet, and snow
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Say goodbye to Madame
Bridge 1
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George
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Dry your eye for Madame George
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Wonder why for Madame George
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Woah
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And as you leave, the room is filled with music
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Laughing, music, dancing, music
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all around the room
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And all the little boys
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come around, walking away from it all
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So cold
Verse 5
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And as you're about to leave
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She jumps up and says "Hey love
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You forgot your gloves, and
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The love that loves
the love that loves the love
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That loves the love that loves to love
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The love that loves to love the love,
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the gloves"
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To say goodbye to Madame George
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Dry your eye for Madame George
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Wonder why for Madame George
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Dry your eyes for Madame George
Verse 6
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Say goodbye
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In the wind and the rain
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on the backstreet
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In the backstreet, in the backstreet
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Say goodbye to Madame George
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In the backstreet, in the backstreet,
in the backstreet
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Woah-oh, yeah-woah
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Down home,
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down home in the backstreet
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Gotta go
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Say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
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Dry your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye
Your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye
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Your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye
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Your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye
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Your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye
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Say goodbye to Madame George
Outro 1
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[Repeat and fade]

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