It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career

E A
He had a stroke at the age of 24

E
It could have been a brilliant career

C#m7 B A
Painting lines in a school that was too well known

C#m7 B/D# A/E
Painting lines with a friend that had gone before

F#/E B
She challenged everyone to a fight

A E B
But the prefects all backed down

A E B
And they ran her out of town

A E B
Cause she drank and swore and spoke

A E F#
Out of turn, she was the village joke

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E A
She had a stroke at the age of 24

E
It could have been a brilliant career

C#m7 B A
Getting clients to finance her strategies

C#m7 B/D# A/E
Filling time in on Safeways on Saturday

F#/E B
She wears the clothes of an emperor

A E B
But her paintings are a sham

A E B
And they're going for a grand

A E B
When the dealers come to view

A E F#
Do they ever see the real you?

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E F#m
He had a stroke at the age of 24

A E
It could have been a brilliant career

C#m7 B A
Selling lies to the boys with the old Dansettes

C#m7 B/D# A/E
Pulling the wool, playing the fool, it's no wonder that

F#/E B
He is dribbling spit tonight

A E B
And the one he sent away

A E B
Was the only one who stayed

A E B
With a spoon and a decent book

A E B
And you can tell by the way she looks

A E B
She is sorry and resigned

A E F#
As he wets himself for the final time