Chords for Chris Wood - No Honey Tongued Sonnet. Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2011

[Fm] I heard [G] the [Gm] American band [Bb] doing their soundcheck [Gm] and I thought, at last some proper music.
[C] _
So you're in for a [Gm] real treat.
_ _ This is [C] a song about the 11 plus exam.
We still have the 11 plus.
It's a very divisive exam.
I failed [C] it.
_ _ _ [F] _ [Gm] What a [C] twat, eh?
[Gm] _
_ Come on, hands up who failed 11 plus. _
Yeah, you see, if you did it the other way, nobody would put their hand up at all.
_ _ Thick as shit. _
_ That's what they wrote on my thing.
[C] _ _ _
_ _ _ Anyway, I'm [Gm] waffling now.
It's a song called
[B] No Honey [Ab] Tongue Sonnet.
[G] _ I'm glad I was, I thought three gigs might be [Gm] too much, but
_ I enjoyed this.
This was good fun.
I hope it worked for you.
[Dm] No, [Gm] I'm sorry.
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_ [Cm] All _ _ _ [Gm] the [C] king's horses and all the [Gm] king's men.
I'm sorry, but they [Cm] haven't [Dm] a clue
_ [Gm] I had to put [C] all the pieces together [Gm] again.
It's just gonna have [Cm] to be [Dm] you.
_ _ [Cm] The career's [C] advisor was useless.
[Cm] What was the poor man to do?
_ _ _ When [C] all that I want in the [Gm] years I've got left is a simple life [Cm] next to [Dm] you. _
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He could do much better [Am] if he [Gm] paid attention and wasn't the clown of [Cm] the [Dm] class. _ _ _
[Gm] He's a little disruptive [C] and such a [Gm] show-off.
Your son [Cm] is a pain in [Dm] the _ ass.
[Cm] It was more than [C] misunderstanding.
[Gm] _ [Cm] The fact is [Fm] not [Eb] one of them knew
_ [Cm] Who was [Gm] standing in front [C] of them.
Nobody [Bb] [C] did.
[Gm] Till the heaven sent [Cm] day I met [Dm] you.
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We [Gm] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [F] _ [Eb] _ _ [Gm] never did [C] Shakespeare nor none [Gm] of that stuff.
So this isn't a honey [C] tongue _
_ [Dm] sonnet.
_ [Gm] No sugar, no [C] spice, [Am] no [Gm] je ne sais quoi.
This is dog rule with [Cm] nothing [Dm] much on it.
_ [Cm] But the one thing I did [C] learn in English _ [Bb] _
[F] is she [Cm] [Eb] favours the tongue that is true. _
_ [C] So [Gm] for all of the [C] blood, the sweat, [Gm] the tears, thank you my darling, [Eb] [Bb] thank you.
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