Tonalidad: Bb major
Verse 1
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Em
This story really started back in 1963,
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when I passed my exams for university.
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I was very working class
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in those early days,
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but three years up at Oxford
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made me change my ways.
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Em
So if you'd care to listen,
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I'll tell you if I may,
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how tragedy befell me on
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graduation day.
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Everyone assembled in the
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convocation hall,
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students and their par ents,
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gents and ladies all.
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Em
Nervously I waited,
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in mortarboard and gown,
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Em
for the Dean to call my name.
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Next student, Charlie Brown.
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When suddenly, from the back,
there came a drunken shout,
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and through the door came
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Mum and Dad,
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with a crate of stout.
Then a coachload of relations
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staggered into view, singing,
Charlie Brown in Liverpool,
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we're really proud of you!
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Em
Professors, Lords and Ladies,
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really looked askance,
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when Mother clambered
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on the stage
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and there began to dance.
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Knees down, but they're brown.
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Knees down, but they're brown.
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I'm at Oxford now, you know.
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E -I -E -I -N -D -O.
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Knees down, but they're brown.
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Knees down, but they're brown.
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Look at the state of my old mate,
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the knees down, but they're brown.
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A student shouted angrily,
We want our degree,
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Em
not a drunken lady's
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fat and hairy knees.
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Em
On hearing this I leapt up and
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gave the chap a clout,
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that's my ma you're talking about.
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Soon everyone was fighting,
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pandemonium broke out,
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But unperturbed Mother Brown
Em
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gaily danced throughout.
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He's done Mother Brown,
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he's done Mother Brown,
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Teary, teary, teary me,
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now I won't get my degree
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Knees down, mutter, prowl
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Knees down, mutter, prowl
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Look at the state of my old
mate's head
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Knees down, mutter, prowl
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The assembly hall next morning
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was in a sorry state
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Em
An d I need hardly tell you,
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I didn't graduate
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Em
And now I'm on the old King Cole
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back in Liverpool town
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Just because my mother
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couldn't keep him down
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Knees down but they're proud
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Knees down but they're proud
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Need you be so working class
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Get a mother off your knees
Knees down but they're proud
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Knees down but they're proud
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Look at the state of my old mate
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Her knees down but they're proud
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