Oxford Street chords by Everything But The Girl

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Verse 1
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 (D major)  (G major) When
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 (D major) I  was ten I thought
my brother was God -
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He'd lie in  (G major) bed and turn out
the light with a fishing rod.
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 (D major) I learned the names of all
his football team,
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Aid I Still re (G major) membered them when
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I was nine (A major)  (D major) teen.
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Verse 2
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 (A major) 
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Strange  (D major) the things deal that
I remember still
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Shouts from the playground  (G major) when
I was home and ill.
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My sister  (D major) taught me all
that she learned there;
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When we Grow  (G major) up, we said,
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we'd share a flat somewhere.  (A major) 

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Verse 3

When I was seventeen,

London meant Oxford Street.

Where I grow up there

were no factories.

There was a school and shops

and some Fields and trees,

And rows of houses one by one appeared.

Verse 4
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I was  (G major) born in one and Lived
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there for eighteen years.  (A major) 
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 (G major) Then when  (A major) I  was nine (G major) teen.  (A major) 
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I thought  (G major) the Hum (A major) ber would be  (G major) the  (D major) gateway
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from my Little world into the  (G major) real world.
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 (A major) But there is no  (D major) real world -

Verse 5
We live side by side,
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and  (G major) sometimes collide.  (A major)  (G major) .
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When I was  (A major) seven (G major) teen,
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 (A major)  (G major) London meant  (A major) Oxford Street.  (G major) 
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 (D major) 
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It was a little  (G major)  (A major)  (D major) world;
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I grew up in a  (G major) little world.