Billy Bragg – A Lover Sings (Guitar)

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  You and I are victims of a love

             G      Em      G    Em
That lost a lot in the translation

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    When I think of all the time that I spent

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Sitting on the edge of your bed in anticipation

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      Of you giving in     and us living in sin

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A hot day, the smell of hairspray

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And the sound of a shower running softly

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It's things like this that remind me how I felt

          G        Em  G   Em
The first time you came back for coffee

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The way you took it, amazed me

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    Walking in the park    kissing in the dark

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   And my head against your pillow

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Late at night a lover sings

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Adam and Eve are finding out all about love

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I say Adam and Eve are finding out all about love

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There is no real substitute

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For a ball struck squarely and firmly

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And you're the kind of girl who wants to

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Open up the bottle of pop

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Too early in the journey

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    Our love went flat just like that

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It doesn't matter the colour of the car

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But what goes on beneath the bonnet

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Is there a flag that flies above your heart

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And is my name writ there upon it

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   Wedding cake and toothache

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Equals love and pain

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  Walking in the park    kissing on the carpet

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   And your tights around your ankles

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        Late at night a lover thinks of these things

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Adam and Eve are finding out all about love

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I say Adam and Eve are finding out all about love

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Adam and Eve are finding out all about

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Adam and Eve are finding out all about

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Teresa and Steve are finding out all about love