Nurses Lament chords by Doug Harrell
Verse 1
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I was talking to this nurse
up at the hospital the other night,
and I asked her what she thought
of the nursing profession.
And this is what she said.
When I was just a little bitty girl
sitting on mother's knee,
she asked me what,
when I grew up, I thought I'd
like to be.
Musician, beautician,
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perhaps a dress designer,
Or how about a hostess
on a luxury airliner?
But she didn't know
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I already had a taste for finer things
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Like Cadillacs, expensive clothes,
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mink coats,
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and diamond rings
So I said, Mother, when I grow up,
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I know what I'm gonna be
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I decided just the other night
from a story on TV
It was about this nurse
who helped a doctor
C
save somebody's life
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The doctor was a millionaire,
and the nurse became his wife
They lived happily ever after
C
and I said that's for me
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I'll be a nurse and have my fling
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Gm
and wed some rich MD and now I'm
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D
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Fallen arches back strain sore feet
and burgos veins every
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day another gray hair.
Gm
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Gm
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Oh, yes, I'm somebody's wife.
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I'd gladly trade this bedpan
C
for a he -man.
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It's time I got some special care.
About the time I finished
high school,
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I received a brochure one day.
It told about the glamour,
opportunities, high pay,
not to mention all those parties,
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social life and entertaining.
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And after I read it,
I could hardly wait to start in
nurses' training.
Well, I hadn't been there very long
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till I knew one thing for sure.
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The person had never been
to nurse's school
who wrote that little brochure.
The uniforms that I had to buy
didn't show off my curves
and sitting in lectures all day long
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kind of got on my nerves.
My roommate borrowed all my clothes
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she was three sizes bigger than me
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but she did help me crawl in the wonder
when I'd come in at two or three.
I passed my work by the skin of
my teeth
and on our graduation
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G
they had a little ce remony in our rooms
for those of us on probation.
Gm
G
And now I'm tired of this life,
Gm
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D
to heck with all this toil and strife.
G
Cause I've got fallen arches,
back strains, sore feet,
and Virgo's veins.
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G
Every day another gray hair.
Gm
G
Oh yes, I'm tired of this life.
Gm
G
D
I want to be somebody's wife.
G
I'd gladly trade this
C
bedpan for a he -man,
G
C
G
it's time I got some special care.
Well, I've been out of school now 14 years
C
and I've come to one conclusion.
G
Those ideas that I used to have,
all were just illusion.
On that high pay that I've
C
been getting,
I keep going further in debt.
G
And hearing a surgeon rant and rave,
how glamorous can you get?
And whenever we have a party,
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I'm on the third ship without fail.
G
So while everyone else is having a blast,
I'm drinking ginger ale.
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I gave up the idea a long time ago
C
of marrying a millionaire,
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but I'd like to have a man
who was able to give me some
special care.
But every time that I'm assigned
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to a patient of the opposite sex,
they all turn out to be 80 years old,
flat -broken, physical wrecks.
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So here I am, getting older every day,
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and though I'm not antique,
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I'm beginning to feel
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my sex appeal
is almost past its peak.
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Gm
G
That's why I'm tired of this life
Gm
G
Too heck with all this toil and strife
D
G
Cause I've got fallen arches,
back strains, sore feet,
and Burko's veins
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G
Every day another grey hair
C
Gm
G
Oh yes, I'm tired of this life
Gm
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I want to be somebody's wife
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G
I'd gladly trade this
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bedpan for a he -man
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It's time I got some special care.
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It's time I got some special care.
Special care.
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Nurses Lament
Doug Harrell
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