Chords for The Houses In Between

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_ _ [D] If you saw my little backyard, what [G] a pretty spot you'd [Dm] cry
It's a picture on a sunny [G] summer's day
With [Dm] the turnip tops and cabbages as people don't buy
[D] I makes it on a Sunday, look all [G] gay, look all gay
[Dm] The neighbours think I grows [A] them, you'd fancy your own kent
Or an [B] Epsom if you gave in to [Dm] the muse
_ It's all [B] one, Laura's a [A] landlord, hasn't one to [Dm] raise the rent
[A] Because we got such knobby distant [D] views
_ Oh, it [G] really is a very pretty garden
And [Am] Sheingford to the eastward could be [D] seen
With [F#m] a ladder and some [F#m] glasses you could see to [D] Acme Marshes
If it wasn't forty houses [G] in between _
[D] We're as country-fied as can be with a [G] closed prop for a [Dm] tree
The top still makes a rustic little [G] style _
Every [Dm] time the blimmin' clock strikes [G] there's a cook who seems to mean
And [Dm] I've paid up to level [G] Laneham Island
_ With tomatoes [A] and with radishes for hadn't any sale
The backyard [F] looks a perfect mess of [D] bloom
_ _ [E] I've made a little [A] beehive with some beetles [Dm] in a pail
And [A] a pitchfork with the handle of [D] a broom _ _ _
[G] Oh, it really is a very pretty garden _
And [C] right out from [A] the cock-bluff [D] could be seen
Where [C#] the chickweed man undresses [A]
to bathe monks' [D] watercresses
If it [G] wasn't forty [Dm] houses in between
_ There's a bunny, she has his egg box with a crock I'd cut an end
And they has got the pip and him the morph
_ [Dm] In the dog's house on the line post there was [G] just pigeons nine or ten
So someone took a brick and knocked it off
_ [D] The dust gut [Am] though it seldom comes, it's just like [Dm] Harvestown
[B] So we made to rig [E] a dairy [D] up somehow
_ Put the [E] donkey in the wash house [A] with some [Dm] imitation horns
And [A] we're teaching him to moo just like [D] _ _ a cow
Oh, _ _ [G] it really is a very pretty garden
An [G] end [A] to the [D] westward could be seen _
And by clinging [G] to the chimney [A] you could see across to [Dm] Wembley
If it wasn't forty houses in [G]
between
_ [Dm] Though the gasworks isn't whylets, [G] they improve the local scene
[Dm] For mountains they could very nicely pass
_ [Dm] Then there's mushrooms in a dust hole [G] with a cucumber so green
It only wants a bit of hot-ass glass _
_ I wears [A] this mountain's nightshirt and I sits outside [Dm] all day
Like the plough-boy cove what's misled overly
_ _ _ [D] And when I goes indoors [A] at night they don't know what I'm [D] saying
[A] Cos my language gets as yokel as can be
[Am] _
_ _ Oh, it [G] really is a very pretty garden
_ And [A] soapworks from the outstops [D] could be seen
[Am] _ _ If I got a [Em] rope and pulley [A] I'd enjoy the breeze more [E] fully
If it wasn't forty [Dm] houses in [G] between _
If I got [Cm] a rope and [C] pulley [A] I'd enjoy the [Dm] breeze more fully
[G] If it wasn't forty [A] houses in between
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