The Kinks – Big Black Smoke (Ukulele)

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She was sick and tired of country life.

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A little country home, A little country folk,

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Made her blood run cold.

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Now her mother pines her heart away,

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Looking for her child in the big black smoke,

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In the big black smoke.

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Frailest, purest girl the world has seen,

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According to her Ma, according to her Pa,

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And everybody said,

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That she knew no sin and did no wrong,

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Till she walked the streets of the big black smoke,

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Of the big black smoke.

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Well she slept in caffs and coffee bars and bowling alleys,

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And every penny she had

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Was spent on purple hearts and cigarettes.

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She took all her pretty coloured clothes,

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And ran away from home, And the boy next door

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For a boy named Joe.

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And he took her money for the rent

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And tried to drag her down in the big black smoke,

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In the big black smoke.

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In the big black smoke.

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In the big black smoke. 

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