Key: A Minor
Time: 6/8
CAPO: No
332010
C/G..........................
x00231
Dm/A.........................
133210
FMaj7........................
2x221x
F#m7b5.......................
x2323x
Bm7b5........................
x05533
Am7add11.....................
| C | E7 | Am | % |
| Am | % |
(Am) C/GFDm/A
My Saturday job pays six and six down
F
A copy boy at the Chronicle
AmC/GFDm/A
Five cigarettes and two silver half crowns
FDm/A
Meeting Vince at Mark Toney?s in town
FAm
Boy, do we get around
(Am) C/GFDm
Basil sits there on the table for subs
F
But not a part of the Bri-nylon club
AmC/GF
Ancient blue sweater, too old for the job
Dm
Bored out of his mind
F
With the Colins and Bobs
C/FMaj7
I?m a jack and a lad
CFMaj7
And I?m up for the world
CFAm
And I?ve kissed a Gateshead girl
(Am) C/GFDm
He calls for a copy boy, grumpy as hell
F
Poets have to eat as well
AmCFDm
What he wouldn?t give just to walk out today
FDm
To have time to think about time
F
And young love thrown away
CFMaj7
I?m a jack and a lad
CFMaj7
And I?m up for the world
CF
And I?ve kissed a Gateshead girl
FCE7
Starlings swarming a cloud
Am
Over Grainger Street
F
Over the black church
DmC/EE7
Over the Black Gate
(Am)
And the shadowy Keep
| Am | F#m7b5 | Bm7b5 | E7 |
| F | % | C | E7 |
| Am |
(Am)
He peers through his wire rims
C/GFDm
At the fish and chip words
F
He?s supposed to dish up and forget
AmCF
His drudgery now has become slightly blurred
DmF
By one of his Players untipped cigarettes
CFMaj7
Bury all joy
CFMaj7
Put the poems in sacks
CF
And bury me here with the hacks
| Am | (Am7add11) | % | % |
(Am)
In the summer the fair
C/GF
Will stretch over the Moor
Dm/AF
Lovers will lie and make out in the park
AmC/GFDm
Basil puts on his old duffel and scarf
F
And goes out into the dark
| C | FMaj7 | C | FMaj7 |
| C | F | % |
| F |