CHORDS USED


  B      B/A    E   E/F#   G#m   F#   C#
--2--   --2-   -0-  --0-   -4-   -2-  -4--
--4--   --4-   -0-  --0-   -4-   -2-  -6--
--4--   --4-   -1-  --1-   -4-   -3-  -6--
--4--   --4-   -2-  --2-   -6-   -4-  -6--
--2--   --O-   -2-  --2-   -6-   -4-  -4--
--X--   ----   -0-  --2-   -4-   -2-  -4--


INTRO

B         B/A
                 E
E/F#                      B    B/A E E/F#

     
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B         B/A                   E
Ever see a blind man cross the road
E/F#                      B    B/A E E/F#
Trying to make the other side
B          B/A                 E
Ever see a young girl growing old
E/F#                      B B/A E E/F#
Trying to make herself a bride

G#m                 F#
So what becomes of you my love
B                      C#
When they have finally stripped you of
E
The handbags and the gladrags
           F#                                B        B/A E E/F#
That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you

B         B/A                   E
Once I was a young man
E/F#                                 B    B/A E E/F#
And all I thought I had to do was smile
B             B/A                   E
Well you are still a young girl
E/F#                          B    B/A E E/F#
And you bought everything in style

G#m                 F#
So once you think you're in you're out
B                      C#
'Cos you don't mean a single thing without
E
The handbags and the gladrags
           F#                                B        B/A E E/F#
That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you

B         B/A                   E
Sing a song of six-pence for your sake
E/F#                       B    B/A E E/F#
And take a bottle full of rye
B             B/A                E
Four and twenty blackbirds in a cake
E/F#                    B    B/A E E/F#
And bake them all in a pie

G#m                       F#
They told me you missed school today
B                           C#
So what I suggest you just throw them all away
E
The handbags and the gladrags
           F#                                B        B/A E E/F#
That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you

Oh oh

G#m                       F#
They told me you missed school today
B                           C#
So what I suggest you just throw them all away
E
The handbags and the gladrags
           F#                                B        B/A E E/F#
That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you