The Ballad of Mary Foster Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[B][Em][B]
[Em][B]

[Verse 1]
David Foster lives
in [A]Gloucester with his [E]fam[B]ily
Works 'til pay-time, through through the day-time,
[A]then then comes [E]home for [B]tea
[E]Steak and kidney[D],
then with [A]Sydney to his [E]club and feels [B]free
They close the bar,
he finds [Am]his car [A]and[D] then goes hom[E]e to sle[B]ep
And his wife has been with Rosie,
in the parlour where it's cosy
Watching telly, doing dishes,
patching [A]pants and making wishes
And [B]he'll say, Bill should have wired
And, Not tonight dear, I'm too tired
[E]An [A]d life drifts slowly
by in the [B]provinces

[Verse 2]
[B]
Peter Foster goes to [A]Gloucester
for his [E]first school [B]day
Bites his teacher,
sees [A]a preacher and is [E]taught to [B]pray
[E]Sees som[D]e birds and learns som[A]e words it'[E]s very,
very rude to [B]say
Yes, he's rather like his [A]father
was in [E]his young [B]day
And his father has discussions,
holding forth about the Russians
Will the Red Chinese attack us
Do we [A]need the Yanks to back us
And in bed [B]she feels his shoulder,
but he grunts and just turns over
And [A]life drifts slowly by in the [B]provinces

[Verse 3]
[B]
[Em]Wedding rings come[B] with strings but
[Em]love de[G]pends on the little thing[B]s
Oh [Em]could that still [B]be really you
[Em]Is there anyth[G]ing time[C] can't
[B]do[A]

[Interlude 1]
[E][D][B]

[Verse 4]
[B]David Foster's been pro[A]moted,
he's a [E]decent [B]sort
Peter's gone to Dad's old [A]Public School,
it's [E]good for [B]sport[E]
They've even [D]got a private [A]parking
place [E]down in [B]Huntingdon Court
Maybe soon he'll be a ma[A]gistrate,
[E]the neighbours [B]thought
Yes, and then he'll teach the beatniks
And the hang-around-the-streetnicks
And the the the good-for-nothing loafers
loafers
loafers
Who knock [A]girls up on their sofas
And his [B]wife is quite nice, really
Though she seems a little [G]dreamy
[C]Re [Am]cently[A][G]
[Am][G][Am]

[Verse 5]
I was born and brought
[C]up on the [D]east side [F]of town
And my [Am]earliest [C]days
they passed [E]quickly
I would [A]play [Am]af ter sc[C]hool with
the kid[D]s all a[F]round
In the [Am]sun and t[G]he dust
of the back [F]streets

[Verse 6]
Oh, [Am]all through my girl
[C]hood the [D]war had its [F]day
And my [Am]daddy he would al
[C]ways be leav[E]ing
So [A]my brother and [C]I we
would [D]sit by her [F]side
[Am]Telling [G]our tales through
[F]the evening

[Verse 7]
[Am]Oh, I grew with [C]the days and
[D]the boys came to [F]call
In the [Am]back shed [C]I learned about [E]kissing
But I don't [A]think [Am]my
[C]mother has [D]no ticed at [F]all
For [Am]we've heard that my
[G]daddy is [F]missing

[Verse 8]
Then my school [Am]days they were
[C]over and I [D]went off to [F]work
And my [A]mother [Am]grew[C] quieter and greye[E]r
So [A]one [Am]day I [C]left her and [D]went off to [F]live
With [Am]Billy,
[A]a saxo[G]phone p[F]layer

[Verse 9]
[Am]In our broken down [C]attic
[D]we laughed and made [F]love
And [Am]all that we [C]had we w[E]ere sharing
Oh, [A]we slept [Am]through [C]the day
and played [D]into the [F]night
God, we [Am]did as [A]we[Am]
[G]pleased [F]without caring

[Verse 10]
Oh but a [Am]year's passed [C]away
and he's [D]left me one [F]day
[Am]To play [C]in a far away coun[E]try
And [A]the sun [Am]told my [C]eyes,
You've got [D]no place to [F]hide
As I [Am]waited to be [G]having his baby
[F]

[Verse 11]
Oh I [Am]lived in [C]the park and
the men [D]passed [F]and stared
Each [Am]wondering [C]which one had [E]lost her
And [A]one came [Am]to ask [C]could
he buy [D]me [Dm]a meal[F]
And he said [Am]he was c[G]alled David Fo[F]ster

[Verse 12]
We were mar[Am]ried that [C]month
and I swore [D]to myself
[F]Somehow[Am] I'd pay back[C]
what [E]I owed him
[A]Cooking his [Am]sup [C]per and
[D]cleaning [F]his boots
Yes, and [Am]kid d[A]ing my[Am]self
[G]I c[D]ould [F]love him

[Verse 13]
Oh, but now my [Am]baby is [C]grown
and he's [D]gone out to [F]school
And he [Am]looks very [C]much like his [Am]daddy[E]
And [A]Dav[Am]id has [C]buried
[D]himself in his [F]work
And [Am]the time on my [G]hands,
[D]it [F]hangs heavy

[Verse 14]
Oh, the neigh[Am]bours they [C]smile
as [D]we pass in [F]the streets
And they [Am]make their re
[C]marks on the [E]weather
But the [Am]butcher and [C]baker
deliv[D]er thing[F]s now
And [Am]I've stopped going
[G]out [D]alto[Dm]geth[F]er
[Am]Oh, I

[Verse 15]
live by my [C]mirror and
[D]stare in my [F]eyes
[A]Trying [Am]to make o[C]ut who I[E] see there
But I'm [A]looking [Am]at a woman[C]
that I can[D]'t recog[F]nize
And I don't [Am]think [G]she
knows [Dm]me e[F]ither

[Verse 16]
There [Am]are lines on [C]her face
[D]and her hair is [F]a mess
And the [Am]light in her [C]eyes it [D]grows [E]colder
In the [A]morn[Am]ing there's [C]nothing will [D]change,
ah [Dm]but y[F]es
I will [Am]be just a[G] little bi[F]t older

[Outro 1]
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