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Alternative, maybe easier, version:
  • Transpose the chords 1 half step down [ -1 ]
  • Put a capo on fret 1 to stay in the same key

UKULELE CHORDS

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Verse 1:
Ab5                           Eb                                 Ab5
So we’re at this shindig everything’s going on they’re so filthy rich
                              Eb 
Comparing oil rigs, how their girlfriend’s new car is so kitsch
Ab5                                  Eb 
Hanging off the chandeliers, their daughters are scoring with the auctioneers
Ab5                                                         Eb 
And the oldies at the back try their best to hack their way out with the gardener’s pruning shears

Verse 2:
            Ebsus4
And they’re discussing champagne
    Ab                                               Ebsus4
The latest and greatest lame campaign, and how their brothers own shares one
Ab                                    Ebsus4
Day it’ll make them millionaires, you see this girl, she
Ab   
Looks like she crawled out the lost and found
    Ebsus4
She pulls right up to my ear and says
Ab   
Whatever you do don’t turn

Chorus:
Ab              Bb  
Roundabouts and washing lines
Ab                                Bb  
We do each other's laundry in our hearts sometimes
Db
Come back
Db
Come back
Db
We don’t have time to xxxx around
Ab         Bb  
Abouts and washing lines
Ab                               Bb  
We do each others laundry in our hearts sometimes
Db
Come back
Db
Come back
Db                           Ab5
we don’t have time to xxxx around

Verse 3:
                                Eb                              Ab5
Only one not wearing cufflinks, only one not begging to buy her drinks

Watching the clocks and
       Eb 
Do you think she even knows I bought my shoes from Oxfam
Ab5
And they’re telling jokes
Eb                              Ab5
Got that one about two men in a tent
                               Eb 
Laughs out loud at mine do you like my accent like my accent

Verse 4:
Ebsus4                      Ab   
And I’ll watch her ruin her life and dye her hair bright colours
Ebsus4
Become someone’s wife
Ab   
Forget the girl that she once was
Ebsus4
And I’ll sit by
Ab                                          Ebsus4                          Ab   
Cocktail gripped in a shaking hand thinking what the hell went wrong cos we had this planned

Had it all planned

Chorus:
Ab              Bb  
Roundabouts and washing lines
Ab                                Bb  
We do each other's laundry in our hearts sometimes
Db
Come back
Db
Come back
Db
We don’t have time to xxxx around
Ab         Bb  
Abouts and washing lines
Ab                               Bb  
We do each others laundry in our hearts sometimes
Db
Come back
Db
Come back
Db                           Ab5
we don’t have time to xxxx around

Interlude -x2-: Ab Bb Db Db

Verse 5:
Ab5
It’s getting late
Eb 
Look a complete and utter state
Ab5
She pops out the blue and says
Eb 
Doesn’t matter mate


Ab5
See this girl she’s been around
Eb 
Bet you a pound
Ab5
She pulls right up to my ear and says
Eb                           Ebsus4
Whatever you do, don’t turn 'round

Verse 6:
          Ab                         Ebsus4
My entire life it’s running away too fast
                       Ab              Ebsus4
Watching everyone I’ve ever loved walk past
                   Ab   
Never really quite getting the knack of
Ebsus4
Knowing no one will not
Ab   
Ever come back for you

Chorus:
Ab              Bb  
Roundabouts and washing lines
Ab                                Bb  
We do each other's laundry in our hearts sometimes
Db
Come back
Db
Come back
Db
We don’t have time to xxxx around
Ab         Bb  
Abouts and washing lines
Ab                               Bb  
We do each others laundry in our hearts sometimes
Db
Come back
Db
Come back
Db                           Ab5
we don’t have time to xxxx around

Interlude -x2-: Ab Bb Db Db

Verse 7:
Ab5                           Eb                                 Ab5
So we’re at this shindig everything’s going on they’re so filthy rich
                              Eb 
Comparing oil rigs, how their girlfriend’s new car is so kitsch
Ab5                                  Eb 
Hanging off the chandeliers, their daughters are scoring with the auctioneers
Ab5
And the oldies at the back
Eb 
They’re at the back
nc                          Ab
And we can hear their cheers
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Album: Love Run

From the same album
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  5. Pruning Shears
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The Amazing Devil is a dramatic, lyrical alt-folk band formed by vocalist and instrumentalist Joey Batey and vocalist Madeleine Hyland who met working as actors for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2014. Following a long stint on Broadway, they returned to the UK and released their debut album Love Run in 2016 to considerable acclaim (‘a masterpiece’ – FATEA, ‘the best thing I have heard this year’ – For Folk’s Sake). They followed it up with

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