Capo 4 C5 D5 G5 C5 You were born with football boots and a suntan complexion F5 D5 G5 You once thought that on reflection, I've really got it made C5 D5 G5 C5 You shrugged and smiled and made the usual excuses F5 D5 G5 C5 You suffered small abuses, and settled for their pay F5 D5 G5 C5 You want to learn to live like an aristocrat F5 D5 G5 But your girlfriend's earrings well they soon put pay to that F5 D5 G5 C5 and if the whole world came crashing, down around your ears F5 D5 G5 You could dream of stucco wallpaper and crystal chandeliers C5 D5 G5 C5 You cashed in your cards, you want to buy some glamour F5 D5 G5 You really are enamoured, with that new soap on a rope C5 D5 G5 C5 A thousand fat comedians came in disguised as clerics F5 D5 G5 They got you in hysterics, and walked off with your soul F5 D5 G5 C5 and with that cheapskate, royalty, you get your flag and wave F5 D5 G5 Well I've seen you on TV grinning at the motorcade F5 D5 G5 C5 Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, we'll string them up like drapes F5 D5 G5 And I'll ride around like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape C5 D5 G5 C5 You hung around too long, your mother read your letters F5 D5 G5 You grinned like a go-getter, come and got and gone C5 D5 G5 C5 The time the morning slips, blends into the wallpaper F5 D5 G5 and once you could escape her, but where did you go wrong F5 D5 G5 C5 and your father's at the factory that makes money selling guns F5 D5 G5 That fought the wars that spent the lives of other peoples sons F5 D5 G5 C5 Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, we'll string them up like drapes F5 D5 G5 And I'll ride around like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape C5 D5 G5 C5 You were born with football boots and a suntan complexion F5 D5 G5 C5 You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made F5 D5 G5 C5 You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made F5 D5 G5 C5 You once thought that on reflection, oh yeah, I've really got it made
