Maginot Waltz by Ralph Mctell
Key: CC | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    



Ab9                      Gbaug  
All off to Brighton in a charabanc
Ab9                         Gbaug  
Albert played his banjo and how we sang.
    C         C (2 fr.)                 G
The beer was expensive but the laughter was free
    A                     D ( D run)
Oh how we do love to all be beside the sea.  
Ab9                       Gbaug  
Albert had a cousin named Marjorie
Ab9                                  Gbaug  
And I had been noticing that she had noticed me.
C            Eb7      G  ( G7M )  E
I quickly decided if she didn't mind
          A              D       G   ( G run)
I would spend the day in her gay company.
We shared a plate of whelks strolling side by side.
I said she weren't too old to take a donkey ride
But I didn't mind when she laughed and said no
So we paused for a while and listened to the minstrel show.
There was a notice at the Palace Pier
It said there was to be a dance that night and it wasn't dear.
I explained of course that I could only waltz
And so we waltzed to every tune they played.
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C  C (2 fr.)  G          G  
D  D )    G          G7 
C  Eb7   G ( G7M )  E  
A  D     G         ( G run)
Nine o'clock come round we had to take the charabanc
Albert was too drunk to play the banjo but still we sang
All except Marjorie, I could tell at a glance
Because me and Albert was leaving for France.
I said "We'll both be home in a week or two
Me and Albert and Lord Kitchener will teach the Hun a thing or two.
I'm sure to return, after me do not yearn
And we will waltz together all our lives through."
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