Grocer Jack Chords by Mark Wirtz

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[B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ Health today's into years.
_ Yes, 82 brings many fears.
_ _ [A] _ Yesterday's laughter turns to tears.
His arms and legs don't feel so strong.
[E] His heart and his heat is something wrong.
[B] Opens windows in despair.
Tries to breathe in some fresh air.
[A] His conscience cries, gets on your [E] feet.
You're about to eject, the time can't eat.
Grosser [B] Jack, Grosser [F#m] Jack, get off your [B] back.
Go into town, [E] don't let them down.
Oh [C#m] no, no.
_ _ [E] Grosser Jack, [B] Grosser Jack, [F#m] get off your back.
[B] Go into town, [E] don't let them down.
Oh [C#m] no, no.
_ _ _ _ _ [E] The people that live in the town, _ don't understand.
_ [A] He's never been known to miss his round.
It's ten o'clock, the housewives yell.
[E] When Jack turns up, we'll give him hell.
[B] Husbands moan, breakfast tables.
No milk, no eggs, a marmalade [A] label.
Mothers send their children [E] out, to Jack's house to scream and shout.
_ [B] _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _
Go into [E] town, don't _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ [G#m] _ let _ [C#] _
them down.
[A] _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ A Sunday morning, bright and clear.
_ _ Lovely flowers, [A] _ _
decorate _ [F#m] Mother Square.
[A] People cry, and [F#m] walk away, [E] thinking about the fateful [B] day.
Now they wish [E] they'd given Jack, [B] more affection and respect.
[A] The little children, dressed in black, [E] don't know what's happened to old Jack. _
_ [B] _ [F#m] Is it true, [B] old mummy says [E] you won't go?
Oh [C#m] no.
_ _ _ [E]
Grosser Jack, [B] Grosser Jack, [F#m] is it true [B] old mummy says [E] you won't go?
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [E]
Grosser Jack, [B] Grosser Jack, [C#m] is it [B] true old mummy _ [E] _
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [E]
says [B] you _ [F#m] _ _ _ [E] won't go?
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [B] Grosser [F#m] Jack, is it [C#] true old mummy says you won't go?
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_ [G#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [N] _