A Lady of A Certain Age: The Divine Comedy

Intro: (finger style)

F(X2), G7(X2), C(X2), C(X2), F(X2), G74(X2), G7(X1 strum )

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Back in the day you had been part of the smart set
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You holidayed with kings, dined out with starlets
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From London to New York, Cap-Ferrat to Capri
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In perfume by Chanel and clothes by Givenchy
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You sipped camparis with David and Peter
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At Noel's parties by Lake Geneva
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Scaling the dizzy heights of high society
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Armed only with a cheque-book and a family tree

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You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur
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Until the light of youth became obscured
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And left you on your own and in the shade
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An English lady of a certain age
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And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
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You'd say with a conspire-a-tor-i-al wink
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"You wouldn't think that I was seventy"
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And he'd say, "no, you couldn't be!"

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You had to marry someone very, very rich
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So that you might be kept in the style to which
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You had all of your life been accustomed to
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But that the socialists had taxed away from you
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You gave him children, a girl and a boy
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To keep your sanity a nanny was employed
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And when the time came they were sent away
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Well that was simply what you did in those days

Chorus; Sixty three

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Your son's in stocks and bonds and lives back in Surrey
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Flies down once in a while and leaves in a hurry
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Your daughter never finished her finishing school
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Married a strange young man of whom you don't approve
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Your husband's hollow heart gave out one Christmas Day
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He left the villa to his mistress in Marseilles
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And so you come here to escape your little flat
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Hoping someone will fill your glass and let you chat about how

Chorus; fifty three

F5 ? G5 ? C5 ? C5 ? F5 ? G5 ? Bb5 ? D5 ? F5 ? G5 ? C5 ? C5 ? F5 ? F5 ? F5 ? G5 ? A5 

(finger style)

C5 ? C5 ? F5 ? F5 ? G5 - Finish on one strum of A5