Up The Junction by Squeeze (Difford/Tilbrook)

INTRO:  Single notes (over chords)
Chrds	E      A       E     C#m     E(tacet then drum fill)

VERSE 1
E                        A                                 E
I never thought it would happen With me and the girl from Clapham
                  C#m                       E
Out on the windy common That night I ain't forgotten
                        A                         E
Where she dealt out the rations With some or other passions
                 C#m                   / E  E  E  E / E  E  E  B/
I said you are a lady  Perhaps she said I may be

VERSE 2  
E                    A                       E
We moved into a basement  With talks of our engagement
                    C#m                          E
We stayed in by the telly  Although the room was smelly
                      A                                E
We spent our time just kissin'  The Railway Arms we're missin'
                   C#m                          / E E E E / E E E B/ 
But love had got us hooked up And all the time it took up

VERSE 3 
E                     A                          E
I got a job with Stanley   He said I'd come in handy
                       C#m   
And he started me on Monday  So I had a bath on Sunday
                 A                                 E
I worked eleven hours  And bought the girl some flowers
                     C#m                    / E E E E / E E E B/     
She said she'd seen a dr. And nothing now could stop her

BRIDGE
C#m                      Abm                           F#m
I worked all through the winter  The weather brass and bitter
                 Bm                         Dm
I put away a tenner   Each week to make her better
                      Am                        Gm
And when the time was ready  We had to sell the telly
                     F                      A
Late evenings by the fire  And little kicks inside her

VERSE 4
D                    G                        D
This morning at four fifty  I took her rather nifty
               Bm                             D
Down to an incubator  Where thirty minutes later
                       G                        D
She gave birth to a daughter  Within a year a walker
                          Bm                      D        D A E
She looked just like her mother  If there could be another

VERSE 5
E                          A                           E
And now she's two years older  Her mother's with a soldier
                     C#m                        E
She left me with my drinkin' gave me a proper stingin'
                      A                             E
The devil came and took me  From bar to street to bookie
                   C#m                              /E E E E /E E E B/
No more nights by the telly  No more nights nappies smelling

VERSE 6 
E                    A                                  E
Alone here in the kitchen  I feel there's somethin' missin'
                    C#m                          E
I beg for some forgiveness  But beggin's not my business
                       A                               E
And she won't write a letter  Although I always tell her
                 C#m                         E
And so it's my assumption  I'm really up the junction

OUT-TRO:

E	A	E	C#m	E	A	E	C#m

E	A	E	C#m	E	A	E	C#m	E (tacet)