Poolside chords by Paula Wolfe

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Am 
Selling her skin,
G 
she sunbathes by the pool
Am 
while her client sits beside her
G 
Am 
flicking through a porno magazine and   a little
G 
brunga talks to herself in the shallow end
Am 
in a rubber -ringed magic kingdom
G 
Am 
C 
On the opposite side,
G 
another young woman is reading the times
D 
Am 
C 
Am 
C 
But Daddy somehow
G 
D 
Am 
managed to find only 23
C 
G 
D 
But she's doing very well at the BBC
Am 
C 
My cousin from the shade of the sun
G 
D 
Darling put some sun cream on
Am 
C 
Am 
To her sun splashing
C 
G 
D 
Of the children
Am 
D 
At night, dried out from the heat
Am 
C 
G 
D 
I cried out in my sleep
Am 
C 
In troubled dreams, you handed me
B 
a mug of steaming tea
C 
Cacophony, a cutesy,
G 
gorgeous bougainvillea
C 
Blooms in pink on whitewashed walls
G 
Slices of ice beneath the sapphire skies
B 
Sky
C 
On balconies
Heavy with jasmine
G 
Old women stare
Quizzically
C 
At the sunburned prints
B 
Searching for Authenticity
Am 
C 
And that woman
Am 
B 
C 
Women I see, keep the tornadoes
B 
for the ladies sit on their way
Am 
C 
D 
At night, dried out from the heat
Am 
C 
D 
I cried out in my sleep
Am 
C 
Am 
C 
In troubled dreams, you handed me
B 
A mug of steaming tea
C 
Can't call the name of Kootekar,
G 
just Bougainvillea
C 
Blooms in pink on whitewashed walls
Slices of ice beneath the
G 
sapphire skies
B 
Sapphire, sapphire skies
Em 
C 
On  balconies, heavy with jasmine
G 
Old women stare quizzically
C 
At the southern Brits
B 
Searching for authenticity to tear