Poor Little Country Girl chords by Paddy Roberts
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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She was once a pretty little milkmaid
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The sweetest ever seen
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At a tender age she was all the rage
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With the boys on the village green
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Verse 2
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And just like the cattle in the cow shed
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She lived in sweet content
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Till one fine day
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there past her way
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A handsome city gent
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He took
Verse 3
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her up to london
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To london, to london
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And there that maid was undone
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In no time at all
Verse 4
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First he bought her pretty flowers
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And gave her a diamond pin
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Then he took her down to a joint in town
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And her filled her up with gin
Verse 5
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Then he put his arms around her
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And gave his moustache a twirl
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Poor, poor, poor little country
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Verse 6
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She was once a pretty little milkmaid
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All pink and plump and choice
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Now sad to tell she looks like hell
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In the back of a large rolls royce
Verse 7
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And she's drenched in
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most exotic per fume
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A smell she can't endure
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For she said I long for
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the wholesome pong
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Of really rich manure
Verse 8
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There feeding her with oysters
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And oysters, and oysters
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Till her sad blue eyes are moist as
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The oysters themselves
Verse 9
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See her sitting at the opera
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Or dining at the ritz
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But she pines all day for
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the new mown hay
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And the cows with their
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twiddly bits
Verse 10
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But now she never sees a cowshed
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She's lost in a social world
Poor poor poor
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Little country girl
Verse 11
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They've dressed her up in satin
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And girdled her fat in
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But she'd rather have her fat in
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Some brown corduroy
Verse 12
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When they tell her she is lucky
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Her cup of woe is full
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Cos she knows quite well
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that the tales they tell
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Are only a lot of bull
Verse 13
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She's far far rather be a milkmaid
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Than marry a belted earl
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Poor poor poor
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Little country girl
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Poor poor poor
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Little country girl
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