It Serves Me Right I Shouldn't Have Joined chords by George Formby

• Capo on 4th

INTRO:
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Verse 1:
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Ever since the days of old the Navy's ruled the waves.
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For years they've told the world that Britain's never shall be slaves.
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The Navy still remembers and you'll often hear them say
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What Nelson told Napoleon upon Trafalgar day.

Chorus 1:
   G                                                                     D
It serves you right, you shouldn't have joined, it jolly well serves you right.
                                                                            G
It serves you right, you shouldn't have joined, you might have been sitting tight
                                                      A
You might have been in Civvy Street instead of in the fight
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But it serves you right, you shouldn't have joined, it jolly well serves you right
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And it's no use kicking up a row because your nobody's sweetheart now.
        G                                   A
You can weep and sigh and pipe your eye but still youre in the fight
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It serves you right, you shouldn't have joined, it jolly well serves you right.

Verse 2:
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I wouldn't mind the Navy if the blinking ship were still
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It's all this bobbing up and down that makes me feel so ill.
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The seas alright for sharks and whales and things the like of that
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But I'd rather stick my Marlin's Pike in llkley Moor ba'tat

Chorus 2:
       G                                                                 D
But It serves me right, I shouldn't have joined, it jolly well serves me right
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It serves me right, I shouldn't have joined, I might have been sitting tight.
                                                     A
When I was cleaning windows I would keep em nice and bright
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But now I'm polishing portholes, rubbing them up with all me might.

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And it's no use kicking up a row because I'm nobody's sweetheart now.


Verse 3:
    G                              A
One day up in the crows nest I was feeling bright and gay
         D
'Til the captain shouted Dont come down, we've taken the ship away'.
   G
I used to be a chimney sweep in dear old Wigan town.
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I used to do the lady's down the street for half a crown

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But now I don't get nothing for the little jobs I do.
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I wish I was in Wigan sweeping Mrs.Jones's flue.

Chrous 3:
       G                                                                 D
But it serves me right, I shouldn't have joined, it jolly well serves me right

It serves me right, I shouldn't have joined, I might have been sitting tight.
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I thought in every port I'd get a cuddle every night
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But all I've done is cuddle a gun and work up an appetite.

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And it's no use kicking up a row because I'm nobody's sweetheart now.
          G                                 A
There's a draught around my fore and aft my jumper's much too tight
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I've got barnacles on my binnacle and it ruddy well serves me right.

SOLO:
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Chorus 4:
   G                                                                     D
It serves you right, you shouldn't have joined, it jolly well serves you right.
                                                                            G
It serves you right, you shouldn't have joined, you might have been sitting tight
           G                                   A
You can weep and sigh and pipe your eye but still youre in the fight
   D                                                                     G
It serves you right, you shouldn't have joined, it jolly well serves you right.

OUTRO:
  C
A life on the open sea, is not very good for me
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It serves you right, you shouldn't have joined, it jolly well serves you right!