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Thread #89951   Message #1700575
Posted By: Rockhen
22-Mar-06 - 06:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req Lady Chatterley's Lover
Subject: Lyr Add: LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER
I think it is as follows, more or less...(as taken from the "Liberated Woman's Songbook!")

LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER


          D                                          A7
1. Oh, he was a gamekeeper and was up from Nottinghamshire.
                                                              D
He served his master faithfully, though his wife was rather queer;
                                                        A7
For one day in the potting shed, she asked him for some game.
                                               D
Maybe he mistook her but it was fun just the same.

CHORUS: With his deerstalker cap and his ful the diddle
A7
dee                                                                                                     D
He was the lover of Lady Chatterley.


2. They had a game of blind man's buff. she landed on the grass.
She looked so pretty lying there, and so he made a pass.
She didn't seem to mind it. In fact, it went to her head.
She pulled him into his cottage and she pushed him into bed. CHORUS

3. She said the aristocracy should mingle with the folk.
She mingled all right with him all night. It got beyond a joke.
Her husband couldn't please her. He said it was the war.
Lover thought, "He's gone on strike. He knows what he's in for." CHORUS

4. After they had finished what has since been called a 'bout'
This pretty young maid leaped out of bed and then began to shout:
"There's that dirty D. H. Lawrence, a-peeping 'round the door."
He was off before they could get the gun and he wrote down all he saw. CHORUS

5. They wouldn't let him publish it because it was pornographic.
But travellers brought it from abroad and did a roaring traffic.
Then Penguin took the case to court and had a stroke of luck.
"Educational," said the jury, knowing words like "love a duck." CHORUS

6. He still thinks of her although her sins are scarlet.
She befriended a working man like him and now she's called a harlot;
And as for Sir Clifford, he's given him the sack
Since he read what happened in bed in a Penguin paperback.

CHORUS: With his deerstalker cap and his ful the diddle dee,
He was the lover, of Lady Chatterley

Cheers, just realised we changed some of it from 'I' to 'he' for a woman to sing the first verse...but hope that is some help...as you can see, the chords are really tricky! I have the tune in the book too if you don't know it but not sure how to put that on here.