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The Short Answer chords by 
Billy Bragg
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Intro 1
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Bm
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Bm
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Verse 1
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Between Marx
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Bm
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D
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D
and marzipan in the dictionary there was Mary
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D
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Between the Deep Blue Sea
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D
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D
G
and the Devil that was me
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G
D
If ever anyone could help me with
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D
my obsession with
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The young Suzannah York
It was Mary
Verse 2
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Bm
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In my pink pa jamas
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D
she asked me for something
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D
I gave her the short answer
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D
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Bm
She read our stars out loud
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D
And I knew then that we should
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have gone sailing
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But we stayed home instead
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D
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Fighting on the water bed
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D
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Like the honeymoon couple on drugs
Interlude 1
Me and Mary
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Bm
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D
Bm
Verse 3
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Bm
What happened in the past
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D
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Remained a mystery of natural history
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D
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She should have been the last
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D
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D
But she was just the latest
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If she wanted to be a farmer's wife
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I would endure that muddy life
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I would dig for victory
Verse 4
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And the sound of happy couples
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D
Coupling happily in the dark
While you and I sat down to tea
I remember you said to me
Bm
That no amount of poetry
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Would mend this broken heart
Em
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But you can put the Hoover round
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If you want to make a start
Interlude 2
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Asus4
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Asus4
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Em
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Verse 5
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All my friends from school
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Introduce me to their spouses
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Bm
While I'm left standing here
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D
With my hands down
the front of my trousers
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I just don't know what's to be done
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D
I wonder sometimes how
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did Dad meet Mum
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And how did they conceive of me
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Tell my Mary
Verse 6
Bm
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D
The boys who
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came to the shop
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Always made her laugh
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D
much more than I did
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D
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Bm
When I told her this must stop
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D
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She didn't bat an eyelid
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She said you know honey
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it's such a shame
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D
You'll never be any good at this game
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You bruise too easily
So said Mary
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Bm
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Verse 7
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Her two brothers took me out
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D
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Of circulation for the duration
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Bm
So we went our separate ways
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but does she still love me
She still has my door key
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Like a bully boy in a Benetton shop
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You're never happy
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with what you've got
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Till what you've got is
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Asus4
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gone
Outro 1
Sorry Mary
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Asus4
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Asus4
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Asus4
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Asus4
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