• Song:

    Sister Josephine

  • Artist:

    Jake Thackray

  • Album:

    La-Di-Dah

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G (320003@1)        Bm (x24432@1)       C (x32010@1)                 GOh, (320003@1)Sister Josephine, what do all these policemen mean
   Em (022000@1)                       Am (x02210@1)            D (xx0232@1)              G (320003@1)    D7By (xx0212@1)coming to the convent in a grim limousine, after Sister Josephine?
      G (320003@1)         Bm (x24432@1)           C (x32010@1)                          GWhile (320003@1)you, Sister Josephine, you sit with your boots upon the altar screen
    Em (022000@1)             Am (x02210@1)  D (xx0232@1)          D7 (xx0212@1)    GYou (320003@1)smoke one last cigar - what a funny nun you are!
    Bm (x24432@1)                             EmThe (022000@1)policemen say that Josephine's a burglar in disguise
Bm (x24432@1)                                 EmBig (022000@1)bad Norman, fifteen years on the run
    Bm (x24432@1)                          EmThe (022000@1)Sisters disbelieve it no that can't be Josephine
     Bm (x24432@1)                         A (x02220@1)       C# (x43121@1)    D7Just (xx0212@1)think about her tenderness towards the younger nuns.
G (320003@1)        Bm (x24432@1)               C (x32010@1)                        GOh, (320003@1)Sister Josephine, they're searching the chapel where you've been seen
    Em (022000@1)                          Am (x02210@1)          D (xx0232@1)              G (320003@1)    D7The (xx0212@1)nooks and the crannies of the nuns' canteen after Sister Josephine.
      G (320003@1)        Bm (x24432@1)           C (x32010@1)              GWhile (320003@1)you Sister Josephine, you sip one farewell Benedictine
  Em (022000@1)           Am (x02210@1)     D (xx0232@1)         D7 (xx0212@1)    G (320003@1)           
Before your au revoir - a right funny nun you are!
  Bm (x24432@1)                           Em (022000@1)        Bm (x24432@1)                        EmAdmittedly (022000@1)her hands are big and hairy and embellished with a curious tattoo
  Bm (x24432@1)                         EmAdmittedly (022000@1)her voice is on the deep side
        Bm (x24432@1)                               A (x02220@1)   C# (x43121@1)    D7And (xx0212@1)she seems to shave more often than the other Sisters do.
G (320003@1)        Bm (x24432@1)       C (x32010@1)                    GOh, (320003@1)Sister Josephine, founder of the convent pontoon team
        Em (022000@1)                            AmThey're (x02210@1)looking through your bundles of rare magazines
D (xx0232@1)              G (320003@1)    D7After (xx0212@1)Sister Josephine.
      G (320003@1)         Bm (x24432@1)                  C (x32010@1)              GWhile (320003@1)you, Sister Josephine, you give a goodbye sniff of benzedrine
       Em (022000@1)           Am (x02210@1)    D (xx0232@1)          D7 (xx0212@1)    GTo (320003@1)the convent budgerigar - a bloody funny nun you are!
   Bm (x24432@1)                                    EmNo (022000@1)longer will her snores ring through the chapel during prayers
        Bm (x24432@1)                             EmNor (022000@1)her lustful moanings fill the stille night
        Bm (x24432@1)                             EmNo (022000@1)more empty bottles of altar wine come clunking from her cell
   Bm (x24432@1)                            A (x02220@1)        C# (x43121@1)name="chord_xx0212@1">D7
No longer will the cloister toilet seat stand upright.
G (320003@1)        Bm (x24432@1)       C (x32010@1)                                 GOh, (320003@1)Sister Josephine, slipping through their fingers like Vaseline
Em (022000@1)                        Am (x02210@1)             D (xx0232@1)              G (320003@1)   D7Leaving (xx0212@1)them to clutch your empty crinoline, after Sister Josephine.
      G (320003@1)        Bm (x24432@1)       C (x32010@1)                           GWhile (320003@1)you Sister Josephine, sprinting through the suburbs when last seen
        Em (022000@1)                        AmDressed (x02210@1)only in your wimple and your rosary
  D (xx0232@1)                 G (320003@1)  C (x32010@1)GA (320003@1)right funny nun you seem to be.
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