Ballad of Lucy Jordan

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The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan 
 
Dr. Hook / Marianne Faithfull / Shel Silverstein 
 
Chromatic Harmonica (raised 1 semitone)	 
 
 
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The morn-ing sun touched light-ly  on 
 
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The eyes of Lu-cy   Jor-don 
 
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In  a white sub-ur-ban bed-room 
 
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In  a white sub-ur-ban town 
 
 
 
 
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As she lay there beneath the  cov-ers 
 
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Dream-ing of a thou-sand lov-ers 
 
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'Til the world turned to  or-ange 
 
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And the room went spin-ning round.. 
 
 
 
 
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At the age of thir-ty-  sev-en 
 
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She re-a-lised she'd nev-er ride 
 
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Through Par-is in a sports car 
 
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With the warm wind in her ha-ir.. 
 
 
 
 
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So she let the phone keep ring-ing 
 
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As she sat there soft-ly sing-ing 
 
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pret-ty nurs-ery  rhymes She'd mem-o- rised  
 
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In  her dad-dy's ea-sy chair 
 
 
 
 
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Her hus-band  he's off to work 
 
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And the kids are off   to school 
 
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And there are oh so ma-ny  ways 
 
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For her to spend the day 
 
 
 
 
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She could clean the house for hour-s 
 
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Or re-ar-range the flow-ers 
 
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Or run  na-ked down   the sha-dy street 
 
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Scream-ing all the way 
 
 
 
 
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At the age of thir-ty-  sev-en 
 
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She re-a-lised she'd nev-er ride 
 
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Through Par-is in a sports car 
 
-3   -3<   4    4   -3< -3  -3  3    
With the warm wind in   her ha-ir.. 
 
 
 
 
-3 -3<  4   4   4    4    3  -2 
So she let the phone keep ring-ing 
 
-6   -6  -6    6    6  -5 -5    4  
And she sat there soft-ly sing-ing 
 
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pret-ty nurs-ery  rhymes She'd mem-o- rised  
 
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In  her dad-dy's ea-sy chair 
 
 
 
 
 
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The even-ing sun touched gent-ly 
 
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On the eyes   of Lu- cy Jor-dan 
 
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On   the roof top where she climbed 
 
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When all  the  laugh-ter grew too   lou-d.. 
 
 
 
 
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And she  bowed and curt-sied to the man 
 
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Who reached    and  of-fered her his ha-nd 
 
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And he led her   down to  the long white car 
 
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That wait-ed past the crowd.. 
 
 
 
 
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At   the age  of  thir-ty   sev-en 
 
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She knew she'd found for-ev-er 
 
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As she rode a-long through Par-is 
 
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With the warm wind in  her hair..

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