Never Any Good chords by
Martin Simpson

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Key: D major•

Verse 1

D

D

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You were never any good with money.

G

G

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D

D

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You couldn't even hold a job,

G

G

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D

D

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Not steady enough for the office,

Bm

Bm

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D

D

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Not hard enough for the hod.

You'd rather be riding your Norton

G

G

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D

D

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Or going fishing with your split cane rod.

G

G

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D

D

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You were never any good with money.

Bm

Bm

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D

D

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You couldn't even hold a job.

Verse 2

D

D

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When your grammar school

days were over,

It was nineteen-seventeen,

G

G

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D

D

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Bm

Bm

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And And you did the right and proper thing.

D

D

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You were just eighteen.

You were never mentioned

in dispatches.

You never mentioned what

you did or saw.

G

G

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D

D

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You were just another keen young man

G

G

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D

D

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In the mud and stink of war.

Verse 3

D

D

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You were never any good with money.

G

G

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D

D

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You couldn't even hold a job,

G

G

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D

D

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Not steady enough for the office,

Bm

Bm

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D

D

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Not hard enough for the hod.

You'd rather be singing the Pirate King,

Or going fishing with

your split cane rod.

G

G

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You were never any

D

D

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Bm

Bm

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good with money.

G

G

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D

D

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You couldn't even hold a job.

Verse 4

D

D

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You came home from the Great War

G

G

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D

D

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With the pips of a captain's rank.

G

G

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D

D

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A German officer's Luger,

Bm

Bm

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D

D

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And no money in the bank.

Your family sent you down in the coal mine

G

G

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D

D

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To learn to be captain there,

G

G

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D

D

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But you didn't stand it very long.

G

G

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D

D

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You needed the light and the air.

Verse 5

D

D

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You were never any good with money.

G

G

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D

D

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You couldn't even hold a job,

G

G

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D

D

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Not steady enough for the office,

Bm

Bm

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D

D

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Not hard enough for the hod.

You'd rather be watching performers fly

Or fishing with your split cane rod.

G

G

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D

D

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You were never any good with money.

Bm

Bm

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G

G

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D

D

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You couldn't even hold a job.

Verse 6

D

D

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A

A

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D

D

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When the second war came along,

G

G

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D

D

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You knew what should be done.

G

G

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You would re-enlist to

Bm

Bm

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to teach young men

D

D

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G

G

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D

D

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The booby trap and the gun;

And they sent you home to Yorkshire,

G

G

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D

D

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With a crew and a Lewis gun,

G

G

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So you could save your

D

D

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seaside town

G

G

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D

D

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From the bombers of the Hun.

Verse 7

D

D

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A

A

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D

D

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You were never any good with money.

Verse 8

G

G

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D

D

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You couldn't even hold a job,

G

G

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Bm

Bm

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Not steady enough for the office,

D

D

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G

G

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Not hard enough for the hod.

D

D

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You'd rather be finding

the nightjar's nest,

G

G

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Going fishing with your split

D

D

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cane rod.

G

G

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D

D

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Bm

Bm

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You were never any good with money.

D

D

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You couldn't even hold a job.

Verse 9

D

D

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And when my mother

A

A

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D

D

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came to your door,

G

G

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D

D

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With a baby in her arm,

G

G

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Bm

Bm

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D

D

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Her big hurt boy only nine years old,

G

G

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Trying to keep her from harm,

D

D

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If you had been a practical man,

G

G

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D

D

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You would have been forewarned.

G

G

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You would have seen that

D

D

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it never could work,

G

G

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A

A

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D

D

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And I would have never been born.

Interlude 1

D

D

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G

G

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D

D

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G

G

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A

A

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Bm

Bm

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D

D

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G

G

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D

D

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G

G

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D

D

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G

G

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D

D

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G

G

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A

A

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D

D

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Verse 10

D

D

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There's no proper work in your seaside town,

G

G

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D

D

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So you come here looking for a job.

G

G

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Bm

Bm

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You were storeman at the power station

D

D

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G

G

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Just before I came along.

A

A

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D

D

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Nobody talked about how you quit,

G

G

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D

D

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But I know that's what you did.

G

G

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D

D

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My mother said you were a selfish man,

G

G

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A

A

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D

D

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And I was your selfish kid.

Verse 11

D

D

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A

A

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D

D

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You were never any good with money.

G

G

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D

D

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You couldn't even hold a job,

G

G

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Bm

Bm

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Not steady enough for the office,

D

D

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G

G

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A

A

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Not hard enough for the hod;

D

D

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And your Norton it was soon gone

G

G

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D

D

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Along with your split cane rod.

G

G

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D

D

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Bm

Bm

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You were never any good with money.

G

G

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A

A

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D

D

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You couldn't even hold a job.

Verse 12

D

D

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You showed me eyebright

A

A

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D

D

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in the hedgerow,

G

G

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D

D

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Speedwell and travellers joy.

G

G

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Bm

Bm

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You showed me how to use my eyes

D

D

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F#m

F#m

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G

G

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A

A

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When I was just a boy;

D

D

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And you taught me how to love a song

G

G

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And all you knew of nature's

D

D

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ways:

G

G

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D

D

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The greatest gifts I have ever known,

Bm

Bm

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D

D

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And I use them every day.

Verse 13

D

D

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A

A

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You were never any good with money.

D

D

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G

G

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D

D

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You couldn't even hold a job,

G

G

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Bm

Bm

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Not steady enough for the office, may be,

D

D

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Not hard enough for the hod.

A

A

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D

D

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You'd rather be riding your Norton

G

G

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D

D

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Or going fishing with your split cane rod.

G

G

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D

D

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Bm

Bm

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You were never any good with money.

G

G

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D

D

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You couldn't even hold a job.

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsD G Bm A F#m

D
G
Bm
A
F#m

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Transpose: 0

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D
G
Bm
A
F#m

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