Womens Studies chords by Lloyd Cole

Chords with lyrics

From Lloyd?s 2014 Standards album. Standards really ranks with Lloyd?s best work and this song is no exception. Typically wry dry and witty lyrics. Chords are relatively straightfoward. Enjoy!


Chords
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C9C9   x32033
E minorEm   022000
E7E7   020100
D MajorD   xx0232
G+G   320033
A7A7   x02020
B minorBm   x24432
GbmGbm  244222
G/Gb  2x0033

Intro
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D MajorD E7E7 G+G D MajorD x 2


Verse 1
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  (D MajorD)           E7E7         G+G          D MajorD
I'm drinking tea and taking unpaid leave from my women's studies uh huh
  (D MajorD)     E7E7            G+G         D MajorD
Out here in the meadow with the people's history of America
  (D MajorD)    E7E7       G+G        D MajorD
I smoke a pipe for Johnny 99 Bi-partisan Con-sensus
  (D MajorD)        E7E7     G+G            D MajorD
Keeping it dry nothing flighty on orders from my therapist


Chorus 1
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    A7A7
We were young and we were stupid
    G+G       D MajorD
It was fine while it lasted
    A7A7
To com-plete my education
     G+G        B minorBm
I had to wake up in your bathtub
     GbmGbm      G+G
All those Monday morning quarters
    A7A7      D MajorD
I grew so accustomed to

E7E7 G+G D MajorD

Verse 2
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  (D MajorD)             E7E7       G+G        D MajorD
OK I've seen enough and made my recommendations my work here is finished
  (D MajorD)      E7E7       G+G          D MajorD
Your powers of re-duction remain strangely undiminished
  (D MajorD)      E7E7          G+G        D MajorD
Yes a-you in your hushed tones and your campus etiquette
  (D MajorD)        E7E7      G+G               D MajorD
If we cannot speak of nothing then nothing should keep her mouth shut


Chorus 2
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    A7A7
We were young and we were stupid
    G+G       D MajorD
It was fine while it lasted
   A7A7
Yes I wrote my dissertation
    G+G         B minorBm
On the bar stools of your neighbourhood
    GbmGbm          G+G
But the bars were filled with lawyers
    GbmGbm      G+G
Filing action two by two
      GbmGbm      G+G      A7A7       D MajorD
Through the valley of the women that I am not married to


Bridge
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       G+G                D MajorD
Oh are these riches here the spoils of my re-treat
   G+G        E7E7       A7A7
These rented rooms and batchelor's de-grees
    G+G        D MajorD
It's a Penguin Classic scene
    G+G     /Gb  E minorEm
Broken spine and faded green
     C9C9  G+G    E minorEm      A7A7    D MajorD
Trying to relo-cate my arms around a memory

E7E7 G+G D MajorD E7E7 G+G D MajorD


Verse 3
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  (D MajorD)           E7E7         G+G          D MajorD
I'm drinking tea and taking unpaid leave from my women's studies uh huh
  (D MajorD)           E7E7    G+G       D MajorD
Hiding up here in the library with the great wall of China
  (D MajorD)         E7E7    G+G           D MajorD
Now if Josef K was from Edinburgh and Fast Product from Prague
  (D MajorD)          E7E7    G+G         D MajorD
Maybe that could be kinda funny or maybe not funny at all


Chorus 3
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    A7A7
We were young and we were stupid
    G+G       D MajorD
It was fine while it lasted
    A7A7
To com-plete my education
     G+G        B minorBm
I had to wake up in your bathtub
     GbmGbm      G+G
With the shadows of the women
    A7A7       D MajorD
That I am not married to


Out
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D MajorD E7E7 G+G x D MajorD 2

D MajorD

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I hope I?ve done it justice!

Kevin O?Brien
Watford
England
July 2015

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