The Beautiful South - From Under The Covers guitar tab

Intro:

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It's six a.m. and even Big Ben

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Is trying to get his head down for a kip

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But no sooner is it down

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And then it's on with dressing gown

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For this city very rarely loses grip

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But I have a friend who's never up by ten

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He's fast asleep with mouth open wide

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He's lost a lot of jobs, but he's won a lot of friends

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And he says to me, he cannot tell the time

It's seven a.m. and we're coughing up the phlegm

Spitting out the taste of night before

And we'll vomit and we'll choke

Just to climb their tatty rope

Well this city has its charm and its claw

And he'll blame his clock

Or he'll say he's lost his socks

And they'll tell you that he's been bitten by a snake

His excuses are an art

>From the bottom of his heart

And he thinks of them whenever he awakes

It's eight a.m. we're on the road again

Racing for a placing at the top

And it says green for go

For the people in the know

But for the others all it says is red for stop

It's cold and it's damp

And they've dug him a grave

And the ten fifteen merchant's still in bed

And scrawled upon the headboard

For the whole wide world to see is

"Died In The Arms Of Big Ted"