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The Ballad of Mary Foster: accordi di
Al Stewart
Al Stewart

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Intro 1
B
Em
B

Em
B

Verse 1

David Foster lives
A
E
B

in Gloucester with his family

Works 'til pay-time, through through the day-time,
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E
B

then then comes home for tea
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D

Steak and kidney,
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E
B

then with Sydney to his club and feels free

They close the bar,
Am
A
D
E
B

he finds his car and then goes home to sleep

And his wife has been with Rosie,

in the parlour where it's cosy

Watching telly, doing dishes,
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patching pants and making wishes
B

And he'll say, Bill should have wired

And, Not tonight dear, I'm too tired
E
A

An d life drifts slowly
B

by in the provinces
Verse 2
B

A

Peter Foster goes to Gloucester
E
B

for his first school day

Bites his teacher,
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E
B

sees a preacher and is taught to pray
E
D
A
E

Sees some birds and learns some words it's very,
B

very rude to say
A

Yes, he's rather like his father
E
B

was in his young day

And his father has discussions,

holding forth about the Russians

Will the Red Chinese attack us
A

Do we need the Yanks to back us
B

And in bed she feels his shoulder,

but he grunts and just turns over
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B

And life drifts slowly by in the provinces
Verse 3
B

Em
B

Wedding rings come with strings but
Em
G
B

love depends on the little things
Em
B

Oh could that still be really you
Em
G
C

Is there anything time can't
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A

do
Interlude 1
E
D
B

Verse 4
B
A

David Foster's been promoted,
E
B

he's a decent sort
A

Peter's gone to Dad's old Public School,
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B
E

it's good for sport
D
A

They've even got a private parking
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B

place down in Huntingdon Court
A

Maybe soon he'll be a magistrate,
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B

the neighbours thought

Yes, and then he'll teach the beatniks

And the hang-around-the-streetnicks

And the the the good-for-nothing loafers

loafers

loafers
A

Who knock girls up on their sofas
B

And his wife is quite nice, really
G

Though she seems a little dreamy
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Am
A
G

Re cently
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G
Am
Verse 5

I was born and brought
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D
F

up on the east side of town
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C

And my earliest days
E

they passed quickly
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Am
C

I would play af ter school with
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F

the kids all around
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G

In the sun and the dust
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of the back streets
Verse 6
Am

Oh, all through my girl
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D
F

hood the war had its day
Am

And my daddy he would al
C
E

ways be leaving
A
C

So my brother and I we
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F

would sit by her side
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G

Telling our tales through
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the evening
Verse 7
Am
C

Oh, I grew with the days and
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F

the boys came to call
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C
E

In the back shed I learned about kissing
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Am

But I don't think my
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D
F

mother has no ticed at all
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For we've heard that my
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F

daddy is missing
Verse 8
Am

Then my school days they were
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D
F

over and I went off to work
A
Am
C
E

And my mother grew quieter and greyer
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Am
C
D
F

So one day I left her and went off to live
Am

With Billy,
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G
F

a saxophone player
Verse 9
Am
C

In our broken down attic
D
F

we laughed and made love
Am
C
E

And all that we had we were sharing
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Am
C

Oh, we slept through the day
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F

and played into the night
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A
Am

God, we did as we
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F

pleased without caring
Verse 10
Am
C

Oh but a year's passed away
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F

and he's left me one day
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C
E

To play in a far away country
A
Am
C

And the sun told my eyes,
D
F

You've got no place to hide
Am
G

As I waited to be having his baby
F
Verse 11

Am
C

Oh I lived in the park and
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F

the men passed and stared
Am
C
E

Each wondering which one had lost her
A
Am
C

And one came to ask could
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Dm
F

he buy me a meal
Am
G
F

And he said he was called David Foster
Verse 12
Am
C

We were married that month
D

and I swore to myself
F
Am
C

Somehow I'd pay back
E

what I owed him
A
Am
C

Cooking his sup per and
D
F

cleaning his boots
Am
A
Am

Yes, and kid ding myself
G
D
F

I could love him
Verse 13
Am
C

Oh, but now my baby is grown
D
F

and he's gone out to school
Am
C
Am
E

And he looks very much like his daddy
A
Am
C

And David has buried
D
F

himself in his work
Am
G

And the time on my hands,
D
F

it hangs heavy
Verse 14
Am
C

Oh, the neighbours they smile
D
F

as we pass in the streets
Am

And they make their re
C
E

marks on the weather
Am
C

But the butcher and baker
D
F

deliver things now
Am

And I've stopped going
G
D
Dm
F

out altogether
Am
Oh, I
Verse 15
C

live by my mirror and
D
F

stare in my eyes
A
Am
C
E

Trying to make out who I see there
A
Am
C

But I'm looking at a woman
D
F

that I can't recognize
Am
G

And I don't think she
Dm
F

knows me either
Verse 16
Am
C

There are lines on her face
D
F

and her hair is a mess
Am
C
D
E

And the light in her eyes it grows colder
A
Am
C
D

In the morning there's nothing will change,
Dm
F

ah but yes
Am
G
F

I will be just a little bit older
Outro 1
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D
A
G
A

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