Up The Junction (Squeeze) -------------------------
Verse 1 -------
I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham
Out on the windy common
That night I ain't forgotten
Where she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said you are a lady
Perhaps she said I may be
Verse 2 (chords are the same as verse 1) ------- We moved into a basement With talks of our engagement We stayed in by the telly Although the room was smelly We spent our time just kissin' The Railway Arms we're missin' But love had got us hooked up And all the time it took off
Verse 3 (chords are the same as verse 1) ------- I got a job with Stanley He said I'd come in handy And he started me on Monday So I had a bath on Sunday I worked eleven hours And bought the girl some flowers She said she'd seen a doctor And nothing now could stop her
Bridge ------
I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner
Each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
And little kicks inside her
Verse 4 -------
This morning at four fifty
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another
Verse 5 (chords are the same as verse 1) ------- And now she's two years older Her mother's with a soldier She left me with my drinkin' Became a proper stingin' The devil came and took me No more nights by the telly No more nights nappies smelling
Verse 6 (chords are the same as verse 1) ------- Alone here in the kitchen I feel there's somethin' missin' I beg for some forgiveness But beggin's not my business And she won't write a letter Although I always tell her And so it's my assumption I'm really up the junction
Worked out by (i.e. not necessarily 100% correct but as near as I can get it) "A Scotsman in Germany"
