Intro: D  E7  G  D  x 2 


verse 1 

    (D)                     E7                  G                   D 
I'm drinking tea and taking unpaid leave from my women's studies uh huh 
    (D)         E7                       G                 D 
Out here in the meadow with the people's history of America 
    (D)       E7             G                D 
I smoke a pipe  for Johnny 99 Bi-partisan Con-sensus 
    (D)                E7         G                        D 
Keeping it dry nothing flighty on orders from my therapist 



[Refrão]

        A7 
We were young and we were stupid 
       G             D 
It was fine while it lasted 
       A7 
To com-plete my education  
         G               Bm 
I had to wake up in your bathtub 
          Gbm            G 
All those Monday morning quarters 
       A7            D 
I grew so accustomed to 

E7 G D 


verse 2 

   (D)                          E7             G                D 
OK I've seen enough and made my recommendations my work here is finished 
   (D)            E7             G                    D 
Your powers of re-duction remain strangely undiminished 
    (D)           E7                   G               D 
Yes a-you in your hushed tones and your campus etiquette 
    (D)               E7           G                             D 
If we cannot speak of nothing then nothing should keep her mouth shut 



[Refrão]

        A7 
We were young and we were stupid 
       G             D 
It was fine while it lasted 
      A7 
Yes I wrote my dissertation  
       G                  Bm 
On the bar stools of your neighbourhood 
        Gbm                   G 
But the bars were filled with lawyers 
       Gbm           G 
Filing action two by two 
            Gbm           G            A7             D 
Through the valley of the women that I am not married to 


Bridge 
             G                               D 
Oh are these riches here the spoils of my re-treat  
      G                E7             A7 
These rented rooms and batchelor's de-grees 
       G               D 
It's a Penguin Classic scene 
       G         /Gb   Em 
Broken spine and faded green 
          C9   G       Em            A7        D 
Trying to relo-cate my arms around a memory 

E7 G D E7 G D 


verse 3 

    (D)                     E7                  G                   D 
I'm drinking tea and taking unpaid leave from my women's studies uh huh 
    (D)                      E7        G              D 
Hiding up here in the library  with the great wall of China 
    (D)                 E7       G                      D 
Now if Josef K was from Edinburgh and Fast Product from Prague 
    (D)                   E7       G                  D 
Maybe that could be kinda funny or maybe not funny at all  



[Refrão]
 
        A7 
We were young and we were stupid 
       G             D 
It was fine while it lasted 
       A7 
To com-plete my education  
         G               Bm 
I had to wake up in your bathtub 
          Gbm            G 
With the shadows of the women  
       A7             D 
That I am not married to 


Out 

D E7 G x D 2  

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