Womens Studies chords by Lloyd Cole

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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C9     x32033
Em     022000
E7     020100
D      xx0232
G      320033
A7     x02020
Bm     x24432
Gbm    244222
G/Gb   2x0033

Intro
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D  E7  G  D  x 2


Verse 1
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    (D)                     E7                  G                   D
I'm drinking tea and taking unpaid leave from my women's studies uh huh
    (D)         E7                       G                 D
Out here in the meadow with the people's history of America
    (D)       E7             G                D
I smoke a pipe  for Johnny 99 Bi-partisan Con-sensus
    (D)                E7         G                        D
Keeping it dry nothing flighty on orders from my therapist


Chorus 1
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        A7
We were young and we were stupid
       G             D
It was fine while it lasted
       A7
To com-plete my education
         G               Bm
I had to wake up in your bathtub
          Gbm            G
All those Monday morning quarters
       A7            D
I grew so accustomed to

E7 G D


Verse 2
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   (D)                          E7             G                D
OK I've seen enough and made my recommendations my work here is finished
   (D)            E7             G                    D
Your powers of re-duction remain strangely undiminished
    (D)           E7                   G               D
Yes a-you in your hushed tones and your campus etiquette
    (D)               E7           G                             D
If we cannot speak of nothing then nothing should keep her mouth shut


Chorus 2
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        A7
We were young and we were stupid
       G             D
It was fine while it lasted
      A7
Yes I wrote my dissertation
       G                  Bm
On the bar stools of your neighbourhood
        Gbm                   G
But the bars were filled with lawyers
       Gbm           G
Filing action two by two
            Gbm           G            A7             D
Through the valley of the women that I am not married to


Bridge
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             G                               D
Oh are these riches here the spoils of my re-treat
      G                E7             A7
These rented rooms and batchelor's de-grees
       G               D
It's a Penguin Classic scene
       G         /Gb   Em
Broken spine and faded green
          C9   G       Em            A7        D
Trying to relo-cate my arms around a memory

E7 G D E7 G D


Verse 3
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    (D)                     E7                  G                   D
I'm drinking tea and taking unpaid leave from my women's studies uh huh
    (D)                      E7        G              D
Hiding up here in the library  with the great wall of China
    (D)                 E7       G                      D
Now if Josef K was from Edinburgh and Fast Product from Prague
    (D)                   E7       G                  D
Maybe that could be kinda funny or maybe not funny at all


Chorus 3
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        A7
We were young and we were stupid
       G             D
It was fine while it lasted
       A7
To com-plete my education
         G               Bm
I had to wake up in your bathtub
          Gbm            G
With the shadows of the women
       A7             D
That I am not married to


Out
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D E7 G x D 2

D

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I hope I've done it justice!

Kevin O?Brien
Watford
England
July 2015

watfordkev@gmail.com