Never Any Good

Never Any Good easy guitar chords by Martin Simpson

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  • D

  • G

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    2
  • A

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  • Verse 1
    You were never 
    any 
    good 
    with money. 

    You 
    couldn't 
    even 
    hold 
    a job, 

    Not 
    steady 
    enough 
    for the 
    office, 

    Not 
    hard 
    enough 
    for 
    the hod. 

    You'd 
    rather 
    be riding 
    your Norton 

    Or going 
    fish
    ing 
    with 
    your split 
    cane 
    rod. 

    You 
    were 
    never 
    any 
    good 
    with money. 

    You 
    couldn't 
    even 
    hold 
    job. 

    Verse 2
    When your 
    grammar 
    school 

    days 
    were 
    over, 

    It was 
    nineteen-seventeen, 

    And 
    And 
    you did 
    the right 
    and 
    proper 
    thing. 

    You were 
    just 
    eighteen. 

    You 
    were never 
    mentioned 

    in 
    dispatches. 

    You never 
    mentioned 
    what 

    you 
    did 
    or 
    saw. 

    You were 
    just 
    another 
    keen 
    young 
    man 

    In 
    the 
    mud 
    and 
    stink 
    of war. 

    Verse 3
    You were 
    never 
    any 
    good 
    with money. 

    You 
    couldn't 
    even 
    hold 
    job, 

    Not 
    steady 
    enough 
    for 
    the office, 

    Not 
    hard 
    enough 
    for 
    the hod. 

    You'd 
    rather 
    be singing 
    the Pirate 
    King, 


    Or going fishing 
    with 

    your split 
    cane 
    rod. 

    You were 
    nev
    er 
    any 

    good 
    with money. 

    You 
    couldn't 
    even 
    hold 
    job. 

    Verse 4
    You came 
    home 
    from the 
    Great 
    War 

    With 
    the 
    pips 
    of 
    a captain's 
    rank. 

    A Ger
    man 
    officer's 
    Luger

    And 
    no 
    money 
    in 
    the bank. 

    Your family 
    sent 
    you down 
    in the coal 
    mine 

    To 
    learn 
    to 
    be captain 
    there, 

    But you 
    didn't 
    stand 
    it 
    very 
    long. 

    You 
    needed 
    the 
    light 
    and 
    the air. 

    Verse 5
    You were 
    never 
    any 
    good 
    with money. 

    You 
    couldn't 
    even 
    hold 
    job, 

    Not 
    steady 
    enough 
    for 
    the office, 

    Not 
    hard 
    enough 
    for 
    the hod. 

    You'd 
    rather 
    be watching 
    performers 
    fly 

    Or 
    fishing 
    with 
    your split 
    cane 
    rod. 

    You were 
    never 
    any 
    good 
    with 
    money. 

    You 
    couldn't 
    even 
    hold 
    a job. 

    Verse 6
    When 
    the second 
    war 
    came 
    along, 

    You 
    knew 
    what 
    should 
    be 
    done. 

    You 
    would re-en
    list to 

    to teach 
    young 
    men 

    The 
    booby 
    trap 
    and 
    the 
    gun; 

    And they sent 
    you home 
    to Yorkshire, 

    With 
    crew 
    and 
    a Lewis 
    gun, 

    So 
    you 
    could 
    save 
    your 

    sea
    side 
    town 

    From the 
    bomber
    of the 
    Hun. 

    Verse 7
    You were 
    never 
    any 
    good 
    with money. 

    Verse 8
    You 
    couldn't 
    even 
    hold 
    job, 

    Not 
    steady 
    enough 
    for 
    the office, 

    Not 
    hard 
    enough 
    for 
    the hod. 

    You'd 
    rather 
    be finding 

    the 
    nightjar's nest, 

    Go
    ing fishing 
    with 
    your split 

    cane 
    rod. 

    You were 
    never 
    any 
    good with 
    money. 

    You 
    couldn't 
    even 
    hold 
    job. 

    Verse 9
    And when my 
    mother 

    came 
    to your 
    door, 

    With a 
    baby 
    in 
    her 
    arm, 

    Her 
    big 
    hurt 
    boy 
    only 
    nine 
    years 
    old, 

    Trying 
    to keep 
    her from 
    harm, 

    If 
    you 
    had 
    been 
    a practical 
    man, 

    You would 
    have been 
    fore
    warned. 

    You 
    would have 
    seen 
    that 

    it nev
    er 
    could work, 

    And 
    would 
    have never 
    been 
    born. 

    Interlude 1



    Verse 10
    There's no 
    proper 
    work 
    in your 
    seaside 
    town, 


    So you come 
    here 
    looking 
    for 
    a job. 

    You were 
    storeman 
    at 
    the power 
    station 

    Just 
    before 
    came 
    along. 

    Nobody 
    talked 
    about 
    how 
    you quit, 

    But 
    know 
    that's 
    what 
    you 
    did. 

    My 
    mother 
    said 
    you were 
    a selfish 
    man, 

    And I 
    was your 
    selfish 
    kid. 

    Verse 11
    You 
    were never 
    any 
    good 
    with money. 

    You 
    couldn't 
    even 
    hold 
    job, 

    Not 
    steady 
    enough 
    for 
    the office, 

    Not 
    hard 
    enough 
    for 
    the 
    hod; 

    And your 
    Norton 
    it was 
    soon 
    gone 

    Along 
    with 
    your split 
    cane 
    rod. 

    You were 
    never 
    any 
    good 
    with 
    money. 

    You 
    couldn't 
    even 
    hold 
    job. 

    Verse 12
    You 
    showed 
    me 
    eyebright 

    in the 
    hedgerow, 

    Speed
    well 
    and 
    trav
    ellers 
    joy. 

    You 
    showed 
    me 
    how 
    to use 
    my 
    eyes 

    When 
    was 
    just 
    boy; 

    And you 
    taught 
    me 
    how 
    to love 
    a song 

    And all 
    you 
    knew 
    of nature's 

    ways: 

    The greatest 
    gifts 
    have 
    ever known, 

    And 
    use 
    them 
    every 
    day. 

    Verse 13
    You were 
    never 
    any 
    good with 
    money. 

    You 
    couldn't 
    even 
    hold 
    job, 

    Not 
    steady 
    enough 
    for the 
    office, 
    may
    be, 

    Not 
    hard 
    enough 
    for 
    the 
    hod. 

    You'd 
    rather 
    be riding 
    your 
    Norton 

    Or 
    going 
    fishing 
    with your 
    split 
    cane 
    rod. 

    You 
    were 
    never 
    any 
    good 
    with 
    money. 

    You 
    couldn't 
    even 
    hold 
    a job. 

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