Working class millionaire chords by Richard Digance
Verse 1
Em
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People say to me, what do you think you're going to be,
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when I tell them I see laughter in their eyes.
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If you want an explanation, I've found me true vocation,
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though me answer seems to take them by surprise.
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There ain't no good jobs
to be found round
Bethnal
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Green or
Canning
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Town, bar a councillor,
Em
a magistrate or mayor.
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But I just sit and laugh,
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cos I'd really like not half to be a working -class millionaire.
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I don't want to be a clerk, a conductor or a spark,
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life's too short for working who
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knows where.
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So I just sit back and dream,
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forget the hours is in between and be a working -class millionaire.
I'd have a mansion down in
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Bow, where all me mates could go,
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a carriage and a team of dappled greys.
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And on the lawn I'd have a seat, for tired pairs of feet,
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of folks that's walked in search of better days.
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There'd be a lion either side of the gateway to the dry,
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a statue of
Lloyd
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Em
George would greet me guests.
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And in the marble halls,
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gold posts painted on the walls
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And other things the
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Amsterdam crowd detests
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I don't want to be a clerk,
a conductor or a spa
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Life's too short for working
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who knows where
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So I'll just sit back and dream,
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forget the hours is in between
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And be a working class millionaire
So now I've got this palace grand,
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it sounds like something down the strand, but it ain't, it's down by
Royal
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Albert
Dock
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The boats sail in an hour, and the word is passed about,
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there's a welcome at me mansion if you knock
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Yes, it's a simple life for me,
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that's all I want you see, that's all the
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Em
Cockney pride in me expects
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There's nothing can compare with an
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East
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End millionaire that's used to living
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just from one day to the next
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I don't want to be a clerk, a conductor or a spy,
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life's too short for working in a square
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So I'll just sit back and dream,
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forget the hours is in between and be a working class millionaire
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