Em     022000
E7     020100
D      xx0232
G      320033
A7     x02020
Bm     x24432
Gbm    244222
G/Gb   2x0033


Intro
=====
D  E7  G  D  x 2


Verse 1
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    (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


Chorus 1
========
        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
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   (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


Chorus 2
========
        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
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             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 


Chorus 3
========
        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 

D

E|-----------------------------------------|

I hope I’ve done it justice!

Kevin O’Brien
Watford
England
July 2015