Smoke Shovelling Song chords by
The Incredible String Band
The Incredible String Band

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Key: A major
Verse 1
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Last winter blew so cold no lies,
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And my fire smoke would not rise
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Soon as the smoke tried to depart,
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It'd be froze up harder
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that a landlord's heart.
Verse 2
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I called up the police and
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D

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they came around
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A
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Three days later and very brought down.
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The sergeant he gave me
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this hysterical croak.
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Says, "What do you think you have going here,
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D

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some kind of joke?"
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(Of course I wasn't laughing)
Verse 3
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He says, "You're causing us
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officers so much grief,
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A

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D

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Why don't you give us some re lief?
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Why don't you call the fire brigade?
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Or maybe why don't you try shovelling the smoke up the
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D

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chimney with a spade."
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Em
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Verse 4
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I borrowed a spade from the
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woman next door,
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And I broke up the smoke that
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remained on the floor,
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I was shovelling away, till the closing day singing
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Em
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a smoke- shovelling song.
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After working so hard I went out to my yard,
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And I looked up to my chimney so long,
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(there was nothing to see there)
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Just a thousand foot high,
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way into the sky,
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Was a pillar of smoke full of song.
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There was an airplane stuck
Verse 5
in it,
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But I didn't notice at first it was so cunningly disguised
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as a dragon.
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Came the summer at last,
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though it was rainy and fast,
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The pillar it melted away,
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The airplane fell with a big smoky smell,
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And echoing around all over the town,
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Was the words of the smoke
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shovelling song.
Verse 6
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Any anyone telling a bigger story would
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have to be telling a lie,
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And anyone think a bigger one up,
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Have to be very high.
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