A Lady Of A Certain Age Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Am][Am]

[Verse 1]
[Am]Back in the day
you had been [F]part of the smart set
[G]You'd holidayed with kings,
[C]dined out with starlets
[F]From London to New York,
Cap [Dm]Ferrat to Capri
[Am]In perfume by Chanel
and [E]clothes by Givenchy
[Am]You sipped Camparis with D[F]avid and Peter
[G]At Noel's parties by [C]Lake Geneva
[F]Scaling the dizzy heights of hig[Dm]h society
[Am]Armed only with a chequebook
[E]and a family tree

[Chorus 1]
[F]You chased the sun around the [G]Cote D'Azur
[C]Until the light of youth becam[C]e obscured
[F]And left you on your own
and [G]in the shade
[Bb]An English lady of a certa[Dm]in age[E]
[F]And if a nice young man
would [G]buy you a drink
[C]You'd say with a conspirator[C]ial wink
[F]"You wouldn't think that I was[Fm] seventy"
[G]And he'd say "No, you cou[Am]ldn't be!"

[Verse 2]
[Am]You had to marry someone very [F]very rich
[G]So that you might be kept
[C]in the style to which
[F]You had all of your life bee[Dm]n accustomed to
[Am]But that the socialists
had [E]taxed away from you
[Am]You gave him children, a g[F]irl and a boy
[G]To keep your sanity a nan[C]ny was employed
[F]And when the time came
they were [Dm]sent away
[Am]Well that was simply
what you [E]did in those days

[Chorus 2]
[F]You chased the sun around the [G]Cote D'Azur
[C]Until the light of youth becam[C]e obscured
[F]And left you on your own
and [G]in the shade
[Bb]An English lady of a certa[Dm]in age[E]
[F]And if a nice young man
would [G]buy you a drink
[C]You'd say with a conspirator[C]ial wink
[F]"You wouldn't think that I was[Fm] sixty-three"
[G]And he'd say "No, you cou[Am]ldn't be!"

[Verse 3]
[Am]Your son's in stocks and bonds
and [F]lives back in Surrey
[G]Flies down once in a while, lea[C]ves in a hurry
[F]Your daughter never finished
[Dm]her finishing school
[Am]Married a strange young man
of [E]whom you don't approve
[Am]Your husband's hollow heart
gave [F]out one Christmas Day
[G]He left the villa to his mis[C]tress in Marseille
[F]And so you come here
to es[Dm]cape your little flat
[Am]Hoping that someone will fill your glass[E]

[Chorus 3]
and let you chat about how
[F]You chased the sun around the Cot[G]e D'Azur
[C]Until the light of youth becam[C]e obscured
[F]And left you on your own
and [G]in the shade
[Bb]An English lady of a certa[Dm]in age[E]
[F]And if a nice young man
would [G]buy you a drink
[C]You'd say with a conspirator[C]ial wink
[F]"You wouldn't think that I was[Fm] fifty-three"
[G]And he'd say "No, you cou[F]ldn't be![G]"
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[F][G]
[Bb][Dm][E]
[F][G][C][C]
[F][Fm][G]

[Outro 1]
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