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[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
Ripples round the [G]bar they
don't [C]know what [D]to think
For prince of the pen has him
[Am]self a new [Bm]fa vourite dr[Em]ink
To [C]blow on bruised skin
[G]takes away [C]the sting
I've half a [G]mind to take
[D]him for a [G]fling

[Verse 2]
The most [G]uncouth of colours that
[C]you have ever [D]seen
30mls of vodka lemon[C]ade
and grenad[D]ine[Ebdim]
The [Em]smoke [C]makes me sick and i
[G]don't know where to [C]look
There's a church mouse in the [G]corner
with her [D]nose stuck in a [G]book
And [D]he says the

[Verse 3]
[G]flavour's flambouyant
Each [D]sip sweetly [G]poignant with a [C]wave
of the [Em]hand and a flick of the fringe
It [D]baffles the quib[G]blers, nit- [D]pickers,
nut- [G]nibblers and [C]un usual weapon to
Choose for a [D]binge

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 4]
Would these [D]words sound [G]the same
on high [D]street in broad [G]daylight
But [C]nothing es[Em]capes the
ears of a playwright
He [D]listens in[G]tently from the
[D]backseat of a [G]Bentley
Let [C]this feeling of change
take hold of me [D]gently
Now there's [G]fog on the

[Verse 5]
Isis and
the [C]poets all [D]blush
This scene is straight [Am]from the stroke
of an im[Bm]pressionists [Em]brush
And [C]now his glass is [G]sat
there next to [C]mine
30mls of [G]vodka lem[D]onade and grenadine
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