Readers Wives chords by
John Cooper Clarke

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Key: Ab major

Verse 1
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Make a date with the brassy
brides of Britain
The altogether ruder readers' wives
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Who put down their needles
and their knitting
At the doorway to our dismal daily lives

Verse 2
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The fablon top scenarios of passion
Nipples peep through holes in leatherette
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They seem to be saying in their fashion
'I'm freezing Charlie - haven't
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ya finished yet?'

Verse 3

Cold flesh the colour of potatoes

In an Instamatic living room of sin

All the required apparatus

Interlude 1

Too bad they couldn't fit her head in

Verse 4

In latex pyjamas with bananas going ape

Their identities are cunningly disguised

By a six- inch strip of

insulation tape

Verse 5
Strategically stuck across their eyes
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Wives from Inverness to
inner London
Prettiness and pimples co- exist
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Pictorially wife- swapping
with someone

Outro 1
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Who's happily married to his wrist
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Ab Ab 4
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