Fred Partington's Daughter: accordi di
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Tonalità: F major
Verse 1
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I was sit
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tin' in this five- star place,
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going nowhere fast
When she caught my attention
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through the bottom of my glass
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She was a waitress in the hotel
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above this smoky bar
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She got up at dawn for breakfast an
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d worked on 'til it got dark
Verse 2
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And at six o'clock,
when her shift was up
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She'd drink the night away
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Well, wouldn't you if you served
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gentlemen all day?
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Verse 3
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Well, she told me where she came
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from was a petty kind of town
How her parents became born- agains af
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ter her brother got knocked down
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And how she found the magazines
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in the boot of daddy's car
And he told her he was weak sometimes,
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just like how all gentlemen are
Verse 4
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And in summer she'd
work in his shop
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And then cry the night away
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Well, wouldn't you if you served
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gentlemen all day?
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Verse 5
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So she left her home and family
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one cloudy afternoon
And she came here with her girlfriend
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who had found them both a room
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And everyday they'd wake up
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early and go looking for a wage
In high- heels and makeup they
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would lie about their age
Verse 6
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With her first job as a barmaid
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She's just dream her shift away
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Well, wouldn't you if you served
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gentlemen all day?
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Gentlemen all day
Verse 7
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And one day by the dole office
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a car window rolled down
And a gentleman asked for directions
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to her old hometown
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And it transpired he knew her family,
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and he owned a string of bars
So he offered her a job if she
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would kiss him in his car
Verse 8
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So it was that she accepted his ad
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vance of one week's pay
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Well, wouldn't you if you served
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gentlemen all day?
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Gentlemen all day
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Verse 9
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And as she told me all these tales she
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picked a scab around her wrist
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That she confessed it was self- inflicted
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with a whiskey glass like this
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Though she gave her name and number to me,
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I did not give mine
She said maybe I should call her
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for some fun sometime
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Verse 10
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And the funniest thing was that
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that name stuck in my head
And eight months later it was
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in a headline that I read
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They had pulled her out the river
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in that same black dress
And she lay there,
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quite the lady for the gentlemen of the press
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And her picture in the paper
Verse 11
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looked so small and far away
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Well, wouldn't you if you
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served gentlemen all day?
Outro 1
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