MARINA (Marina and The Diamonds) – Hot Cross Bun (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
Fm        Cm         Db   Ab  Fm
She had a bun in the oven

Cm       Db       Ab    Fm
It was a hot cross bun

  Cm            Fm           Cm
A bun that was damn hot and angry

       Fm           Cm       Db  Ab
Just puffing and steaming to be someone

Fm           Cm
It was the fifties

          Eb              Ab
There was war in the streets

Fm         Cm
With Mussolini

        Db
And his gangsters

Ab            Fm   Cm
Raiding Greek houses

Db
For blood

        Fm
And for meat

    Cm  Fm
The day

  Cm     Fm    Cm   Db
A mother was to claim

Ab                  Fm
What was rightfully hers

  Cm  Fm  Cm
The same baker

          Fm
Could´ve saved

   Cm          Db
A mother and child

       Cm   Fm  Cm  Db
From simple hunger
Fm Cm Db [Verse 2]
Fm         Cm              Db
There was tradition in the village

Fm           Cm          Ab
that when a woman is with babe

Fm       Cm             Db          Ab
She is entitled to a free loaf of bread

    Fm             Cm            Db       Ab
But the baker must see her baby bump on display

Fm                         Cm
But when the woman went to the baker

    Db                        Ab
He looked her in the stomach and said

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"You do not look very pregnant to me, you are so thin"

               Cm
Your stomachs flat, lady

      Db               Fm
Your baby is probably dead

                Cm        Fm        Cm       Fm
I will not be wasting my bread on liars he said

       Cm   Db       Fm
Women lowered her head

Fm
Face like thunder

                                   Db
Baker could´ve saved a mother and child

 Ab            Fm
From simple hunger