Chords for Hefner - Peppermint Taste

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_ _ _ _ _ _ You had peppermint gum stuck behind your teeth.
[G] You had white shoes and bennie.
In 1983 [Am] I had your [D] breast in my hand underneath the tree.
[G] But as the tree lost its leaves, you went up and left [F] me for an awkward kind of boy
who was far too [A] tall [Am] and too _ deformed.
It didn't last long, [G] but the peppermint taste [F] doesn't pass away [C] for me.
_ _ _ _ _ Well, my school friends' hearts, they were bitter, they were cruel.
[G] So I left when I was fifteen, did you think [A] of them at all?
[C] Were you thinking that with June and you turned your back on school?
[G] Did you work in a bank?
Did you marry with a banker?
[F] Do you think your face is tall?
Do you think of cruelty?
[A] Do you [Am] think of me pushing you up against that tree?
[G] And that peppermint taste [F] doesn't pass away [C] for me. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] Well, I may have touched your breast, but I never underneath.
[G] But we kissed too hard and we knocked each other's teeth.
[C] Did you smile with relief when I gave up the ghost?
[G] And didn't ring your house no more.
_ [F] Now it's been twenty years, I bet you kiss real good.
[Am] I bet you kiss your banker like a banker's wife should.
[G] And that peppermint taste [F] doesn't pass away [C] for me.
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Peppermint taste [F] doesn't pass away [C] for me.
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Peppermint taste [F] doesn't pass away [C] for me.
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Yeah.
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