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Verse 1

I never thought it would happen

 With me and the girl from Clapham

 Out on the windy common

 That night I ain't forgotten

 Where she dealt out the rations

 With some or other passions

 I said you are a lady

 Perhaps she said I may be

Verse 2

chords are the same as verse 1)

We moved into a basement

With talks of our engagement

We stayed in by the telly

Although the room was smelly

We spent our time just kissin'

The Railway Arms we're missin'

But love had got us hooked up

And all the time it took off

Verse 3

chords are the same as verse 1)

I got a job with Stanley

He said I'd come in handy

And he started me on Monday

So I had a bath on Sunday

I worked eleven hours

And bought the girl some flowers

She said she'd seen a doctor

And nothing now could stop her

Bridge

I worked all through the winter

 The weather brass and bitter

 I put away a tenner

 Each week to make her better

 And when the time was ready

 We had to sell the telly

 Late evenings by the fire

 And little kicks inside her

Verse 4

This morning at four fifty

 I took her rather nifty

 Down to an incubator

 Where thirty minutes later

 She gave birth to a daughter

 Within a year a walker

 She looked just like her mother

 If there could be another

Verse 5

chords are the same as verse 1)

And now she's two years older

Her mother's with a soldier

She left me with my drinkin'

Became a proper stingin'

The devil came and took me

From bar to street to bookie

No more nights by the telly

No more nights nappies smelling

Verse 6

chords are the same as verse 1)

Alone here in the kitchen

I feel there's somethin' missin'

I beg for some forgiveness

But beggin's not my business

And she won't write a letter

Although I always tell her

And so it's my assumption

I'm really up the junction