Lips Like Oranges chords by Clare Bowditch

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Verse 1:
E minorEm     B minorBm
Factory by five
A augmentedA     Asus4Asus4     A augmentedA
And as the morning hits, she's working a double-split shift
  E minorEm            B minorBm
The boss says "Hope you don't mind"
A augmentedA     Asus4Asus4    A augmentedA
In a hand-written note placed in the lunchroom


🎸 Pre-Chorus:
E minorEm      E minor 7Em7
Leave Josie alone (you've got to leave that girl alone)
A augmentedA      Asus4Asus4    A augmentedA
She did not ask for you, could she be sitting there longing
  E minorEm         E minor 7Em7
For someone to take her home? (you've got to leave that girl alone)
A augmentedA      Asus4Asus4     A augmentedA
Here in the morning light, she switches off the light

🎸 Chorus:
   D MajorD    D/F#D/F#   G+G
She's got such beautiful lips
  D MajorD     D/F#D/F#  G+G       D MajorD
They call like oranges to the thirsty man
   D/F#D/F#   G+G
Break-time intermits
  D MajorD    D/F#D/F#     G+G
He wants to say it but he don't know if he can


🎸 Instrumental:
E minorEm E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA Asus4Asus4 A augmentedA
E minorEm E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA Asus4Asus4 A augmentedA


🎸 Verse 2:
E minorEm         B minorBm
Oh just to know her light
A augmentedA     Asus4Asus4   A augmentedA
José sees Josephine and he wants to call her "Josie"
  E minorEm           B minorBm
He says, "Josie, are you alright?
A augmentedA        Asus4Asus4     A augmentedA
I've watched you fifteen years bottling those god damn beers"

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
E minorEm       E minor 7Em7
Paper-thin the walls (cannot work it out on your own)
A augmentedA      Asus4Asus4    A augmentedA
Between the lavatories, the men's and the lady's
  E minorEm        E minor 7Em7
Is that her name he calls? (cannot work it out on your own)
A augmentedA      Asus4Asus4    A augmentedA
She hears José rehearse some kind of song-like verse


🎸 Chorus:
   D MajorD    D/F#D/F#   G+G
She's got such beautiful lips
  D MajorD     D/F#D/F#  G+G       D MajorD
They call like oranges to the thirsty man
   D/F#D/F#   G+G
Break-time intermits
  D MajorD    D/F#D/F#     G+G        D MajorD C majorC G+G
He wants to say it but he don't know if he can
   G/F# E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 A augmentedA
Ooh, ooh, ooh


🎸 Outro:
D MajorD    C majorC   G+G     G/F# E minor 7Em7
I guess I was wondering what you
   Asus4Asus4  A augmentedA  D MajorD
Were doing on the weekend
C majorC    G+G     G/F# E minor 7Em7
I've got tickets to this show
   Asus4Asus4  A augmentedA
It's free you know and
D MajorD    C majorC   G+G     G/F# E minor 7Em7
I guess I was wondering what you
   Asus4Asus4  A augmentedA  D MajorD
Were doing on the weekend
N.C.
I've got tickets to this show
   N.C.
It's free you know and
N.C.
I guess I was wondering what you