Billy Bragg – The Busy Girl Buys Beauty (Guitar)

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 The pretty girl buys style

        C        G     D                Em
And the  simple girl buys what she's told to buy

C               G
 And sees her world

            D
Through the brightly lit eyes

D
Of the glossy romance of fashion

C             D
Where she can learn

                 Em       C
Top tips for the gas cook

D                        Em     C
 Successful secrets of a sexual kind

D                    Em            C
 The daily drill for beautiful hair

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And the truth about pain

C        D         G
What was Anna Ford wearing?

B7                C       G
  What did Angela Rippon say?

C                          G
 What will you do when you wake up one morning

            D
To find that God's made you plain

D
In a beautiful person's world?

D
And all those quick recipes have let you down

D
And you're 20 and a half and you're not yet engaged

D
Will you go look for the boy who says

                                               D7
“I love you, let's get married and have kids”?

G          D      C      G
  The busy girl buys beauty

C           G           B7
 The pretty girl buys style

        C        G     D                Em
And the  simple girl buys what she's told to buy

C               G
 And sees her world

            D
Through the brightly lit eyes

D
Of the glossy romance of fashion

C             D
Where she can learn

                 Em       C
Top tips for the gas cook

D                        Em     C
 Successful secrets of a sexual kind

D                    Em           C
 The daily drill for beautiful hair -

D               Em    C   D
In a mail order paradise