Poor Lady (Midnight Baby) chords by Smokie

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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I met a girl
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in L.A. and she seemed alright to me,
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She said she'd give me loving and
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she said it would be free,
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She told me she would call me or
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leave a message at the door,
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And left me wondering what
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I was in for.
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Verse 2
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By the next  time that I saw her
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I had clean forgot her name
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And without her fancy make- up
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she just didn't look the same,
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So I totally ignored her and
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she sadly turned away,
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And through sympathy I told
her she could stay.
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Verse 3
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Oh poor lady, midnight baby,
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No one wants your love at all,
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Oh poor lady, midnight baby,
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Now you're heading for a fall,
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And you really think your're something,
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you know all the things to do
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But poor lady, just a baby,
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There's a hundred more
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like you.

Verse 4
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Now for two weeks more
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she was at my door,
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She would stay with me for days,
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As a lover she was frightening
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in so many different ways,
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But when it came to conversa
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tion she was totally absurd,
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Oh she'd sit for hours and
never say a word.
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Verse 5
Em 
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Oh poor lady, midnight baby,
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No one wants your love at all,
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Oh poor lady, midnight baby,
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D 
Now you're heading for a fall,
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And you really think your're something,
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you know all the things to do
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But poor lady, just a baby,
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There's a hundred more like

Interlude 1

you.

Verse 6
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She spends her days in different ways,
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still trying to be hip,
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And at night she'll find she'll lose her mind,
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at a club along the strip,
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When her money goes she always knows
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she got something she can sell,
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It's the one thing that
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she really can do well.

Verse 7
Em 
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Oh poor lady, midnight baby,
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No one wants your love at all,
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Oh poor lady, midnight baby,
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D 
Now you're heading for a fall,
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And you really think your're something,
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D 
you know all the things to do
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C 
But poor lady, just a baby,
D 
There's a hundred more like
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C 
you.