Chords for billy bragg - the short answer.mpg

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Between [A] Marks and _ [E] Marzipan [A] in the [D] dictionary, _ _ there was Mary. _ _
Between the [B] deep blue sea [A] and [D] the devil, [A] [D] that was [G] me. _
_ If ever [A] _ anyone [D] could help me with my obsession with [Bm] the young [F#m] Susanna [A] _ _ _
York,
it was _ _ [D] _ [C#m] Mary.
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_ _ _ In my pink [Em]
[B] pyjamas, [A] she asked me [D] for something, [A] I gave her the [D] short answer.
_ _ She [A] read our stars [B] out loud, [A] and I [D] knew then that [A] we should have [D] gone sailing.
_ [G] _ But we [A] stayed home instead, [D] _ fighting on the _ waterbed,
[G] like the [Bm] honeymoon couple [F#m] [A] on _ drugs, me and _
[D] _ [A] Mary.
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[D] What [C#] happened [B] in the past [A] remained [D] a mystery [A] of natural [D] history.
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[D] She [C#] should have [B] been the last, but [A] she was just [D] the _ [A] lightest.
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If she wanted to be [A] a farmer's wife, [D] I would endure that muddy life.
[G] I would dig [Bm] for _ [A] _ victory. _
_ _ And [Bm] the sound of happy couples [F#m] coupling happily in the dark,
[D] while you and I sat down to tea, I remember you said to [Bm] me that
no amount of poetry [F#m] would mend this broken heart.
[G] But you can put the hoove around [Bm] if you want to make a star.
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[G] All [A] _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ my friends from school _ introduced [A] me to their spouses. _
[D] Well, I'm left standing [Bm] here [A] with [D] my hands [A] down the front of [D] my trousers.
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I just don't know [A] what's to be done.
[D] I wonder sometimes how did Dad meet Mum,
[G] and how did they [F#m] conceive [A] of me?
Tell me, _ [D] _ Mary.
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_ _ [F#m] _ [D] The boys who [C#] came to [B] the shop [A] always made [D] her laugh [A] much [D] more than I [A] did.
[D] When I told [A] her this [B] must stop, she [A] couldn't [D] bat an _ eyelid.
_ _ _ [G] She said, you know, honey, [A] it's such a shame [D] you'll never be any good at this [Bm] game.
You'd bruise [F#m] too _ [A] easily.
_ _ So said _ [D] _ [A] Mary.
[Bm] Her [A] _ _
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[D] two [C#m] brothers took [B] me out [D] of circulation for the duration.
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[D] So we [A] went our [Bm] separate ways.
[A] But does she [D] still love me?
She still has my door key.
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Like a bully boy [A] in a Benetton [D] shop, you're never happy with what you've got
to [Bm] what you've got [D] _ [A] has gone.
Sorry, _ [D] _ Mary. _
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_ _ _ But a tall girl, _ _ _ but a barefoot girl,
_ _ the girl with a soap in [A] her mouth [D] and the stars in her hair,
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[D] _ _ _ [A] but a [G] brown [A]-eyed [D] girl. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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