Patricia The Stripper by Chris de Burgh
Key: FF | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Verse 1
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Dennis is a menace with his 'anyone for tennis?'
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and beseeching me to come and keep the score
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And Maud say 'Oh Lord, I'm so terribly bored'
  F             Dm      G7/D   C7
And I really can't stand it anymore
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I'm going out to dinner with a gorgeous singer
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to a little place I found down by the quay
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her name is Patricia, she calls herself Delicia
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and the reason isn't very hard to see
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She says  God made her a sinner just to keep fat men thinner 
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as they tumble down in heaps before her feet
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They hang around in groups like battle weary troops
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one can often see them queue right down the street
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You see Patricia (or Delicia) not only is a singer
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she also removes all her clothing    for
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Patricia is the best   stripper in town
Chorus
    C7     F                      D7
And with a swing of her hips she started to strip
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to tremendous applause she took off her drawers
            F                        D7
and with a lick of her lips she undid all her clips
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and threw it all in the air and everybody stared
           Bb                         A7
and as the last piece of clothing fell on the floor
          F                        D7
the police were banging on the door
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on a Saturday night in nineteen-twenty four
          F         C7
Take it away boys
Instrumental
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Verse 2
C7        F                         A7
But poor Patricia was arrested and everyone detested
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the manner in which she was exposed
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later on in court well everybody thought
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a summer run in jail would be proposed
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But the judge said 'Patricia, or may I say Delicia,
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the facts of this case lie before me --- case dismissed! 
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this girl was in her working clothes
Chorus
   F    C7     F                      D7
And with a swing of her hips she started to strip
      Gm                    C7
to tremendous applause she took off her drawers
            F                        D7
and with a lick of her lips she undid all her clips
              Gm                 C
and threw it all in the air and everybody stared
           Bb                         A7
and as the last piece of clothing fell on the floor
          F                        D7
the police were yelling out for more
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on a Saturday night in nineteen-twenty four -
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on a Saturday night in nineteen-twenty four
      F7
Oh yeah!