Verse 1
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E5                        A5
I never thought it would happen
                          E5
With me and the girl from Clapham
                 C#5
Out on the windy common
                   E5
That night I ain&#039;t forgotten
                        A5
Where she dealt out the rations
                   E5
With some or other passions
                 C#5
I said you are a lady
                 E5
Perhaps she said I may be

Verse 2 (chords are the same as verse 1)
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We moved into a basement

With talks of our engagement

We stayed in by the telly

Although the room was smelly

We spent our time just kissin&#039;

The Railway Arms we&#039;re missin&#039;

But love had got us hooked up

And all the time it took off

Verse 3 (chords are the same as verse 1)
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I got a job with Stanley

He said I&#039;d come in handy

And he started me on Monday

So I had a bath on Sunday

I worked eleven hours

And bought the girl some flowers

She said she&#039;d seen a doctor

And nothing now could stop her

Bridge
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C#5                      G#5
I worked all through the winter
                      F#5
The weather brass and bitter
             B5
I put away a tenner
                      D5
Each week to make her better
                      A5
And when the time was ready
                   G5
We had to sell the telly
                     F5
Late evenings by the fire
                 A5
And little kicks inside her

Verse 4
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D5                    G5
This morning at four fifty
                  D5
I took her rather nifty
               B5
Down to an incubator
                     D5
Where thirty minutes later
                    G5
She gave birth to a daughter
                D5
Within a year a walker
                         B5
She looked just like her mother
                  D5       D5 A5 E5
If there could be another


Verse 5 (chords are the same as verse 1)
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And now she&#039;s two years older
Her mother&#039;s with a soldier
She left me with my drinkin&#039;
Became a proper stingin&#039;
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling


Verse 6 (chords are the same as verse 1)
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Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there&#039;s somethin&#039; missin&#039;
I beg for some forgiveness
But beggin&#039;s not my business
And she won&#039;t write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it&#039;s my assumption
I&#039;m really up the junction