Prag Vec At The Melkweg
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E A F#m B
In the town where I was born lived a man who went to work
E A E A
And he told us of his life building spaceships on forty pounds a week.
E A E A
And he'd take us all for rides, and we'd do some serious drugs in
E A E A
On board the Enterprise Allowance we could do whatever we liked.
E A
And we could go to a Meadowlark Lemon seminar,
E A
Be at the Tony Monopoly incident,
E A
Sort a strobe for Connie Plank,
E A E A (rpt instr)
Shop around with Johnny Kwango.
E A
If you would come with me to Dawlish
E A E A (rpt instr)
I'd be like Stadler's caddy for ya.
E A E A
And we'd return in time for tea and our dads would not have inklings
E A E
Said we'd been to organise a frisbee competition
A
With the Gypsies down the road.
E A
D'ya wanna swap a hundred spandex overcoats
E A
For the mental age of a haversack
E A E A E A (rpt instr)
It's been like this since we saw PragVEC at the Melkweg.
B A
Oh I doctored my edible thong with listeria
B A
Now my only hope is that your offspring walks backwards
B A B A
Just as I expected the shopkeeper appeared
E
And then the band began to play.
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