Northern Side Of Town chords by 
Jeremy Taylor 
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Key: G major•
Verse 1
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A little cabaret act which I have.
It starts off with a little tune which
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you may have heard before.
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Ach please daddy won't you
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take us to the drive -in
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All six, seven of us, eight, nine, ten
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We wan na see a flick about
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Tar zan and the
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Ipeman
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And when the show's over you can
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bring us back again
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Popcorn, chewing gum,
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peanuts and bubblegum
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And all the rest of it I think you know.
Anyway, we won't go any further,
but I must tell you something.
I was on the radio the other day, being interviewed,
and this announcer,
O, he said to me, he said,
Mr.
Taylor, he said, do you really speak like this?
I mean, hell.
I told him I didn't,
and tried to prove to him that I didn't always speak like this.
I sang him another song,
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it goes like this.
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I'm from the northern side of town,
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I live a life of luxury and ease.
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I'm from the northern side of town,
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I do whatever I wish and when I please.
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Now there's al ways a train of
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servants following in my aftermath
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They clean the carpet,
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scrub the floors and polish up the hearth
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There's three to dust the sur face
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of my pen guin swim ming bath
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Yes, I'm from the northern
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side of town
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Yes, I'm from the northern side of town
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My home is decorated with discre tion
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I'm from the northern side of town
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I hope at least it does give
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that impres sion
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Now the curtains in the drawing
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room have a kind of purple hue.
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The bath room
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tiles are pink because they
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say it's awfully you.
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And even the toilet pa per is
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a delicate shade of blue.
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Yes, I'm from the northern
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side of town.
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All the best people from
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the northern side of town.
Ilover,
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Sandhurst,
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Morningside and
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Houghton.
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Yes, we're all from the
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northern side of town.
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And we've even
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spread ourselves as far as
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Bry anston
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Now our poodles have their
hair cut at the
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Rose bank
Beauty
Parlor
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You'll see us all togeth er in the loc al
Joburg
Tatler
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And oc casionally you'll find us
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on the snob page of the
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Star
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We're all from the northern
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side of town
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Yes, well, I'm from the
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northern side of town
I must say, I'd give any
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thing to have a title
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I'm from the northern side of town
After all,
they're giving him away in
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England for a trifle.
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I mean that photographer chap,
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just an ordinary sort of man.
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There's no royal blood in him,
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he just happened to be a royalty fan.
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Perhaps if I marry the president's daughter,
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they'll make me the
Earl of
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Brack bam.
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Yes, I'm from the northern
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side of town.
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Yes, we're all from the
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northern side of town.
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And to be long to the club, we
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make our ap plica tion.
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Yes, we were from the northern side of town
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It protects us all from outside infiltra tion
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One day a chap called
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Labouschain tried to join our company
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But we really couldn't admit him,
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having dis covered after tea
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That his real name, to his fright ful shame,
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was ac tually
Labouschach
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No, he was not from the northern
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side of town
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Well, from the northern side of town
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I say, what have you got against old
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Jimmy
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Lee?
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He's from the northern side of town
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He's a very good sort of chap,
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it seems to me
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His father, so they say,
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played a very good game of chess
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His father's father was friendly
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with an in fluential duchess
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But his father's father's mother was a
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Swazi prin cess
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She was not from the northern
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side of town
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Yes, oh, well, from the northern side of town
I say, did you see old
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so -and -so's latest show?
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I'm from the northern side of town
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Oh, yes, I was there on the opening night,
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know
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And did you attend the opening of that exhibition by young,
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uh, what's -his -name?
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Oh, yes, and I saw the premiere of that thing,
uh, what was it again?
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Oh, you mean the, uh,
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hang, it's gone again
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Well, I'm from the northern side of
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town
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Yes, well, we're from the
northern side of town
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And the lan guage parallels
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below are breed ing
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Well from the northern side of town and we
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couldn't give a rap which lingers leading
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Eth el fresh from
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England to the be st of her belief
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tried to greet us all in
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Afrikaans when ar riving on the reef
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For she shouted from the
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Thank you very
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