Fred Partington's Daughter Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]I w[G]as [D]sit[G]
[D]tin' in this five- star place,
[G]going nowhere [D]fast
When she caught my attention
through the bot[A]tom of my glass
She was [D]a waitress in the hotel
[G]above this smoky [D]bar
She got up at dawn for breakfast [A]an
d worked on 'til it got [D]dark

[Verse 2]
[G]And at six o'clock,
when her shift was up
She'd [D]drink the night [G]away
Well, wouldn't [D]you if [A]you served
[G]gentlemen all [D]day?
[G][D]

[Verse 3]
[G]
Well, she [D]told me where she came
from was [G]a petty kind [D]of town
How her parents became born- agains af
[A]ter her brother got knocked down
And [D]how she found the magazines
in the [G]boot of daddy's [D]car
And he told her he was weak sometimes,
just [A]like how all gentlemen [D]are

[Verse 4]
And in [G]summer she'd
work in his shop
And then [D]cry the night [G]away
Well, wouldn't [D]you if [A]you served
gen[G]tlemen all day?
[D][G][D]

[Verse 5]
[G]
So she [D]left her home and family
one [G]cloudy after[D]noon
And she came here with her girlfriend
who had [A]found them both a room
And every[D]day they'd wake up
early and go [G]looking for [D]a wage
In high- heels and makeup they
would [A]lie about their [D]age

[Verse 6]
With [G]her first job as a barmaid
She's just [D]dream her shift [G]away
Well, wouldn't [D]you [A]if you served
gen[G]tlemen all [D]day?[G]
Gentlemen [D]all [G]day

[Verse 7]
And one [D]day by the dole office
a car [G]window rolled [D]down
And a gentleman asked for directions
[A]to her old hometown
And it tran[D]spired he knew her family,
and he [G]owned a string [D]of bars
So he offered her a job if she
would [A]kiss him in his [D]car

[Verse 8]
So it [G]was that she accepted his ad
[D]vance of one week's [G]pay
Well, wouldn't [D]you if [A]you served
gen[G]tlemen [D]all [G]day?
Gentlemen [D]all day
[G]

[Verse 9]
And as she [D]told me all these tales she
picked [G]a scab around her wrist
[D]That she confessed it was self- inflicted
[A]with a whiskey glass like this
Though [D]she gave her name and number to me,
[G]I did not give m[D]ine
She said maybe I should call her
for some [A]fun sometime
[D][G][D]

[Verse 10]
[G]
And the fun[D]niest thing was that
that [G]name stuck in my [D]head
And eight months later it was
in a [A]headline that I read
They [D]had pulled her out the river
in that [G]same black [D]dress
And she lay there,
quite the lady for the gen[A]tlemen of [D]the press
And her [G]picture in the paper

[Verse 11]
[G]
looked [D]so small and far [G]away
Well, wouldn't [D]you if you
[A]served [G]gentlemen [D]all day?

[Outro 1]
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