From Lloyd’s 2014 Standards album. Standards really ranks with Lloyd’s best work and this song is no exception. Typically wry dry and witty lyrics. Chords are relatively straightfoward. Enjoy!
Chords
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C9 x32033
Em 022000
E7 020100
D xx0232
G 320033
A7 x02020
Bm x24432
Gbm 244222
G/Gb 2x0033
Intro
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D E7 G D x 2
Verse 1
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(D) E7 G D
I'm drinking tea and taking unpaid leave from my women's studies uh huh
(D) E7 G D
Out here in the meadow with the people's history of America
(D) E7 G D
I smoke a pipe for Johnny 99 Bi-partisan Con-sensus
(D) E7 G D
Keeping it dry nothing flighty on orders from my therapist
Chorus 1
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A7
We were young and we were stupid
G D
It was fine while it lasted
A7
To com-plete my education
G Bm
I had to wake up in your bathtub
Gbm G
All those Monday morning quarters
A7 D
I grew so accustomed to
E7 G D
Verse 2
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(D) E7 G D
OK I've seen enough and made my recommendations my work here is finished
(D) E7 G D
Your powers of re-duction remain strangely undiminished
(D) E7 G D
Yes a-you in your hushed tones and your campus etiquette
(D) E7 G D
If we cannot speak of nothing then nothing should keep her mouth shut
Chorus 2
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A7
We were young and we were stupid
G D
It was fine while it lasted
A7
Yes I wrote my dissertation
G Bm
On the bar stools of your neighbourhood
Gbm G
But the bars were filled with lawyers
Gbm G
Filing action two by two
Gbm G A7 D
Through the valley of the women that I am not married to
Bridge
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G D
Oh are these riches here the spoils of my re-treat
G E7 A7
These rented rooms and batchelor's de-grees
G D
It's a Penguin Classic scene
G /Gb Em
Broken spine and faded green
C9 G Em A7 D
Trying to relo-cate my arms around a memory
E7 G D E7 G D
Verse 3
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(D) E7 G D
I'm drinking tea and taking unpaid leave from my women's studies uh huh
(D) E7 G D
Hiding up here in the library with the great wall of China
(D) E7 G D
Now if Josef K was from Edinburgh and Fast Product from Prague
(D) E7 G D
Maybe that could be kinda funny or maybe not funny at all
Chorus 3
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A7
We were young and we were stupid
G D
It was fine while it lasted
A7
To com-plete my education
G Bm
I had to wake up in your bathtub
Gbm G
With the shadows of the women
A7 D
That I am not married to
Out
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D E7 G x D 2
D
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I hope I’ve done it justice!
Kevin O’Brien
Watford
England
July 2015
[email protected]
