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We didn't see the summer sun, we didn't speak to any one
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The caravan was on it's own, we didn't have a telephone.
                               G5                                 E5
That's why I'd never liked the Mini, that's why I'm into Sleater Kinney
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From holidays when I was small. the only thing that I recall

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Bottleneck at Capel Curig, bottleneck at Capel Curig
                    C5                       D5
Bottleneck at Capel Curig, Neil Morrisey's a knobhead.

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I got a job in Aberdeen, I was only seventeen
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I met a girl on halloween, she was nowhere to be seen.
                   G5                              E5
Disappeared down a sewer, I sent my brother to pursue her
                          C5                                 D5
They ran away and fell in love, I hope they're in the middle of

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A bottleneck at Capel Curig, bottleneck at Capel Curig
                    C5                               D5
Bottleneck at Capel Curig, fate decrees they're in Hawaii.

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Now I'm living on my own, scared of dying all alone
                    C5                          D5
I haven't got a telephone, if I did it wouldn't ring.
                       G5                                E5
Seeing that I'm on the way out, I'm gonna take me for a day out
                     C5                      D5
I wanna wash away my sin, so I'm not forever in

                      G5                          E5
A bottleneck at Capel Curig, bottleneck at Capel Curig
                    C5                   D5
Bottleneck at Capel Curig, my shame will cause
                      G5                          E5
A bottleneck at Capel Curig, bottleneck at Capel Curig
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Bottleneck at Capel Curig - ig - ig - ig - ig.