The Divine Comedy – A Lady Of A Certain Age (Guitar)

Am                                Fmaj7/A
Back in the day you had been part of the smart set

G7                        C9             C
You holidayed with kings, dined out with starlets

F                        Dm6
From London to New York, Cap-Ferrat to Capri

Am/F                     E7
In perfume by Chanel and clothes by Givenchy

Am                  Fmaj7
You sipped camparis with David and Peter

G7                Csus2    C
At Noel's parties by Lake Geneva

Fmaj7                     Dm6
Scaling the dizzy heights of high society

Am                            E7
Armed only with a cheque-book and a family tree

F                         G
You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur

C                        C/Bb
Until the light of youth became obscured

F                         G7
And left you on your own and in the shade

Bb6                Dm         E
An English lady of a certain age

F                             G
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink

C                           C/Bb
You'd say with a conspire-a-tor-i-al wink

F                              Fm
"You wouldn't think that I was seventy"

F/G            G              Am
And he'd say, "no, you couldn't be!"

Am                       Fmaj7/A
You had to marry someone very, very rich

G7                        C9               C
So that you might be kept in the style to which

F                        Dm6
You had all of your life been accustomed to

Am/F                    E7
But that the socialists had taxed away from you

Am                     Fmaj7
You gave him children, a girl and a boy

G7                  Csus2          C
To keep your sanity a nanny was employed

Fmaj7                            Dm6
And when the time came they were sent away

Am                            E7
Well that was simply what you did in those days

F                         G
You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur

C                        C/Bb
Until the light of youth became obscured

F                            G7
And left you on your own and in the shade

Bb6                  Dm      E
An English lady of a certain age

F                             G
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink

C                           C/Bb
You'd say with a conspire-a-tor-i-al wink

F                              Fm
"You wouldn't think that I was SIXTY THREE"

F/G                G              Am
And he'd say, "no, you couldn't be!"

Am                                 Fmaj7/A
Your son's in stocks and bonds and lives back in Surrey

G7                             C9            C
Flies down once in a while and leaves in a hurry

F                                Dm6
Your daughter never finished her finishing school

Am/F                           E7
Married a strange young man of whom you don't approve

Am                          Fmaj7
Your husband's hollow heart gave out one Christmas Day

G7                       Csus2          C
He left the villa to his mistress in Marseilles

Fmaj7                   Dm6
And so you come here to escape your little flat

Am                              E7
Hoping someone will fill your glass and let you chat about how

F                          G
You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur

C                        C/Bb
Until the light of youth became obscured

F                        G7
And left you on your own and in the shade

Bb6                  Dm      E
An English lady of a certain age

F                             G
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink

C                           C/Bb
You'd say with a conspire-a-tor-i-al wink

F                              Fm
"You wouldn't think that I was FIFTY THREE"

F/G                G     F         
And he'd say, "no, you couldn't be!"

G – C – C/Bb – F – G7 – Bb6 – Dm - E7 – F – G – C – C/Bb – F – Fm – F/G - G (pause)
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