Miscellaneous chords by Rob Dougan

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
 FF        Bb majorBb      C7C7         FF
I met her in miscellaneous, She was biting on her lip.
 FF       Bb majorBb      G7G7        C7C7
We decided that speech was extraneous, And embarked on a trip.
 FF        Bb majorBb      C7C7         FF
She said, ‘I’ve got my beauty and my youth’. I said, ‘you’ve got a strange perception of the truth’,
 FF              Bb majorBb        C7C7         FF
And with a saxophone playing on the gramophone player, we decided to call it a truce.

 FF        Bb majorBb      C7C7         FF
We Fm/Eht a yellow taxi cab to a blue kind of flat, Situated somewhere in the middle of the city.
 FF       Bb majorBb      G7G7        C7C7
She showed me her cat, and I gave it a pat, and she told me that its name was ‘kitty’.
 FF        Bb majorBb      C7C7         FF
With a loyalty usually reserved for royalty, I never gave it a blink of my eye.
 FF        Bb majorBb      C7C7         FF
And, when the dawn broke, we were both filled with hope, ‘cause I’d been singing her a lullaby.
FF
That went like-

Chorus 1:
F minorFm            DbDb       Eb MajorEb
When these boots are worn, there’ll be a mackerel sky.
F minorFm            DbDb       Eb MajorEb
Every single story cocoons a lullaby.
C minorCm          F minorFm       Dbmaj    Gm7Gm7
All of Time is wandering ‘round, wondering where to hide.
                  C7C7
Butterflies are ugly now, so caterpillars, cocoon up and die.

F minorFm Bb majorBb BbmBbm  F minorFm  Bb majorBb BbmBbm
Ah ah ah cocoon up and die.


Verse 2:
F minorFm            BbmBbm
On Saint Patrick’s day, we were both on our way,
 C minorCm         F minorFm
Buying a leprechaun flowers.
F minorFm            BbmBbm
I turned away, when I returned to pay,
 C minorCm         F minorFm
the man said she’d been gone for hours.

F minorFm            BbmBbm
I went down to the sea, where I thought she would be,
 C minorCm         F minorFm
The dockyard down there was abandoned.
F minorFm            BbmBbm
At the old aerodrome, there was no one found home,
 C minorCm         F minorFm
Nor the fields where I really

Bridge:
      F minorFm    Fm/E   Fm/Eb   Dm7-5
e|---------8--------8--------8----------8-----------|
BB|---------9--------9--------9----------9-----------|
G+G|---------10-------10-------10---------10----------|
D MajorD|---------10-------10-------10---------10----------|
A augmentedA|---------8--------7--------6----------5-----------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------------------------|

F minorFm   Fm/E    Fm/Eb     Dm7-5
imagined she’d be, thought that she’d be, I watched and I waited to see.
F minorFm   Fm/E    Fm/Eb
They say Mum’s a mad hatter, and she’ll never get better.
  Dm7-5
I don’t visit home, and I don’t write her letters. But –


Chorus 2:
F minorFm            DbDb       Eb MajorEb
When these boots are worn, there’ll be a mackerel sky.
F minorFm            DbDb       Eb MajorEb
Every single story cocoons a lullaby.
C minorCm          F minorFm        Dbmaj    Gm7Gm7
The moon, as yet, has never dawned. Most icebergs never thaw.
                  C7C7
Every camel’s back is broken by a single straw.

F minorFm            DbDb       Eb MajorEb
When these boots are worn, there’ll be a mackerel sky.
F minorFm            DbDb       Eb MajorEb
Every single story cocoons a lullaby.
C minorCm          F minorFm        Dbmaj    Gm7Gm7
All of Time is wandering ‘round, wondering where to hide.
                  C7C7
Butter flies are ugly now, so caterpillars, cocoon up and die.

F minorFm Bb majorBb BbmBbm  F minorFm  Bb majorBb BbmBbm