Uncle Dad chords by John Wesley Harding

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Verse 1
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Mom, he's here!
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He comes a -knockin'
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on a Friday night
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With a box of black magic
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and a bottle of white
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And if she's with him,
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she waits outside
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Watch her do her lipstick
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in the passenger line
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Mum gets quiet, Mum gets sad
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She sits in the kitchen,
lost in the walnuts
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Mom, she makes the breakfast,
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walks us all to school
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Works   at the municipal
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swimming pool
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It's sad he moved so far away
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He's doing up his house
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now so we can't stay
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How we  smiled, how we  laughed
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When he turned up in his sports car
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No one's quite as much fun as Uncle
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No one's quite as much fun as Uncle
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No one's quite as much fun
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as Uncle Dad
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He's there without warning
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He's gone in the morning
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It never gets boring Uncle Dad
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Careful when you titter
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on the firing range
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Gets   a little tense at
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the hostage exchange
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Not all the hostages want to go
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I'm the peacemaker
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so I go with the flow
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Out to the car and in the backseat
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On with the seatbelt,
out with the sweets
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No one's cried as much fun as Uncle
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No one's cried as much fun as Uncle
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No one's cried as much
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fun as Uncle Dad
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He's there in the driveway
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Blimey, it's Friday
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His car is untidy Uncle Dan
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I remember once when he
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came in for a drink
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And he was there in the morning
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Sitting in the kitchen
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with a mug of instant coffee
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Yawning, yawning, yawning
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Mum was smiling when
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we went to school
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Later she was in mourning
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It's always presents and
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it's always treats
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Back home it's TV
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and it's just repeats
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She says he thinks that
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life's one long cartoon
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He really wishes Mum would
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get a boyfriend soon
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Yeah, we like her Auntie Jane
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But it's great to get home again,
though
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No one's quite as much fun as Uncle
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No one's quite as much fun as Uncle
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Uncle, no one's quite as much
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fun as Uncle Dan
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He's there without warning,
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he's gone in the morning
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It never gets boring, Uncle Dan