Standard (EADGBE)

They say running into you is like running into trouble

 You bend my ear and I see double

You’re everybody’s idea of a waste of time

 You still come around ‘cos I used to listen

 But I run a steamship I don’t run a mission

Don’t be mistaken in thinking you’re a friend of mine

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 Those hard luck stories it’s all I ever get from you

Hard luck stories you’re going to drive me out of my mind

Hard luck stories it’s all I ever get from you

Hard luck stories you’re going to drive me out of my mind

Well the boss won’t give you change of a penny

Everybody’s got money but you haven’t any

If I cared about you I’d say it was a crying shame

Your wife ran away, she left you on Sunday

She cried when she left you, she was laughing on Monday

She should have known better and never gone and changed her name

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Why don’t you grow up, why don’t you settle down

Why don’t you get a job, why don’t you leave town

Even a chicken has to do what it has to do.

You don’t like one thing, you don’t like another

You don’t like anything that looks like bother

Everyone don’t like something, and we all don’t like you

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