Chords with lyrics
Stunned to find not a single Jake Thackray ballad here.
If you've not heard any of Jake's work then I strongly suggest you check him out
on Youtube and read his bio at www.jakethackray.com
A augmentedA true wordsmith in idiosyncratic English humour.
The Lodger – Jake Thackray
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My landlady had three lovely daughters.
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They used to come and make my bed each day
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They used to come and clean my living quarters,
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But their mother made quite sure they didn't stay.
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There was Mary: she seemed chary;
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There was Helen: she seemed well and truly sceptical
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about my qualities;
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There was Julie: she was truly well-proportioned, but her
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Caution Brought exhaustion on my aching arteries.
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But I was wrong: they weren't at all impervious
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To the possibilities of high romance -
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And I sensed a certain girlish nerviness
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In the way they folded my pyjama pants.
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And I was right, for late one night
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Sweet little Mary, like a fairy,
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As I lay sleeping, came a-creeping to my side.
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She was mine: it was divine - but we were doomed, for very soon
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Into the room came sister Helen, and she cried:
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"Mary, go to bed!" Off Mary went.
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"Now, young man," Helen said, "for your punishment,
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"We mustn't have a fight, we mustn't make a row:
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"Turn off the light - it's my turn now!"
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Well, after all, I'm young and relatively vigorous,
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And though I still protest my innocence,
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By temperament I'm strictly un-polygamous,
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And if I sinned, I sinned in self-defence.
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Nevertheless I must confess I wouldn't miss that
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sort of bliss And when it ended I was rendered comatose.
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When, loud and clear, very near, in my ear a loud
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voice spoke And I was awoken from my post-coital doze.
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"Helen, go to bed!" Helen went away.
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"Now, young man," Julie said, "you will have to pay!
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"You've blighted Helen's charms, filched her purity.
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"Open up your arms - come and filch me!"
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I was amazed, and really rather tired;
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I thought I'd given all that I could give.
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A augmentedA little kip was all that I desired,
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But I'm British, so my upper lip was stiff.
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She was chaotic, idiotic, quite exotic and ecstatic,
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Acrobatic and emphatically fine.
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All to no good, for when I could open my eyes, to my
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surprise I found her mother looking into mine.
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"Julie, go to bed!" Julie left the scene.
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"Now listen, Ma," I said, "I know the old routine.
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"I'll do what you like, but I shall be vexed
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"And I'll bloody well go on strike if Grandma's next!"
Listen to the recording on youtube it's a nice simple tune
and fun to play for friends. This is my first attempt so any
