Chords with lyrics
Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)
Refrain:
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Portebello road, Portebello road
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Street where the riches of ages are stowed.
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Anything and everything a chap can unload
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Is sold off the barrow in Portebello road.
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You’ll find what you want in the Portebello road.
Verse 1:
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Rare alabaster? Genuine plaster!
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A filigreed samovar owned by the czars.
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A pen used by Shelley? A new Boticelli?
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The sniper that clipped old King Edward’s cigars?
Verse 2:
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Waterford Crystals? Napoleon’s pistols?
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Society heirlooms with genuine gems!
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Rembrandts! El Greco’s! Toulouse-Letrec’os!
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Painted last week on the banks of the Thames!
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Portebello road, Portebello road
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Street where the riches of ages are stowed.
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Anything and everything a chap can unload
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Is sold off the barrow in Portebello road.
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You’ll meet all your chums in the Portebello road
Verse 3:
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There’s pure inspiration in every creation.
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No cheap imitations, not here in me store.
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With garments as such as was owned by a Duchess.
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Just once at some royal occasion of yore.
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In Portebello Road, Portebello Road
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The fancies and fineries of ages are showed.
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A lady will always feel dressed a la mode
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In frillies she finds in the Portebello road.
Verse 4:
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“Burke’s Peerage;” “The Bride Book;” “The Fishmonger’s Guidebook;”
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A Victorian novel, “The Unwanted Son;”
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“The History of Potting”, “The Yearbook of Yachting,”
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The leather bound “Life of Attila the Hun.”
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Portebello road, Portebello road
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Street where the riches of ages are stowed.
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Artifacts to glorify our regal abode
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Are hidden in the flotsam in Portebello road.
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You’ll find what you want in the Portebello road.
Verse 5:
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Tokens and treasures, yesterday’s pleasures
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Cheap imitations of heirlooms of old
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Dented and tarnished, scarred and unvarnished
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In old Portebello they’re bought and they’re sold
Refrain:
Cm Ab Cm
Portebello road, Portebello road
Cm Ab7 G7
Street where the riches of ages are stowed.
Cm Ab Cm
Artifacts to glorify our regal abode
Cm Ab Cm
Are hidden in the flotsam in Portebello road.
Cm Ab7 Gb7 Cm
You’ll find what you want in the Portebello road.