Chumbawamba – Waiting For Margaret To Go (Guitar)

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[Intro] C G D Em G D G [Verse]
G          D            C      G
Alfred and Beatrice and Muriel too

Am                      G            D
Over the shop where the train passes through

G          D            C             G
Play happy families the cards falling fast

C        G             D           G       
Alderman preacher runs up and down stairs

C G D G        D          C       G
      Muriel a sister but never a friend

Am                     G          D
Kept well apart in the same gable end

G         D         C             G
Following father at odds with the world

  C            G             D           G
A chip off the old block the scholarship curve
[Chorus]
C       G          D         G
Not any better the devil you know

C           G           D
Waiting for Margaret to go

C       G          D         Em
Not any better the devil you know

G           D           G   C
Waiting for Margaret to go, Oh!

G           D           G
Waiting for Margaret to go
[Verse] C G D G
G          D          C             G
Oxford for chemistry, mend and make do

  Am                   G         D
Society turned her the truest of blue

G           D        C           G
Back in the shop Mr. Roberts had taught

     C           G            D           G       
That people like flour can be sold and be bought
[Chorus]
C        G        D          G
Masters above and servants below

C           G           D
Waiting for Margaret to go

C        G        D          Em
Masters above and servants below

G           D           G   C
Waiting for Margaret to go, Oh!

G           D           G
Waiting for Margaret to go
[Verse] C G D G
G         D               C       G
Up to the house where the loyalty wears

Am                      G            D
Thinner than carpets on father's old stairs

    G                D       C                G
Her friends like her enemies stretched on the rack

C          G            D               G 
Play happy families but don't turn your back
[Chorus]
    C           G          D            G
The grocers and Methodists lay her down low

C           G           D
Waiting for Margaret to go

    C           G          D            Em
The grocers and Methodists lay her down low

G           D           G   C
Waiting for Margaret to go, Oh!

G           D           G
Waiting for Margaret to go
[Verse] C G D G
G         D          C             G
Alfred he closes the shop one more time

Am                      G        D
Little girl singing her nursery rhymes

G            D         C            G
Here comes a candle to light you to bed

C            G          D             G 
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head
[Chorus]
C           G          D               G
Down with the shutters and on with the show

        C           G           D
No more waiting for Margaret to go

C             G            D           Em
Down with the shutters and on with the show

        G           D           G  
No more waiting for Margaret to go

C       G           D           G
No more waiting for Margaret to go