Verse 1 ------- 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'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) ------- 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' The Railway Arms we're missin' But love had got us hooked up And all the time it took off Verse 3 (chords are the same as verse 1) ------- I got a job with Stanley He said I'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'd seen a doctor And nothing now could stop her Bridge ------ 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 ------- 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) ------- And now she's two years older Her mother's with a soldier She left me with my drinkin' Became a proper stingin' 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) ------- Alone here in the kitchen I feel there's somethin' missin' I beg for some forgiveness But beggin's not my business And she won't write a letter Although I always tell her And so it's my assumption I'm really up the junction
