John Hegley

Down At The Depot

John Hegley

Cavaco chords Easy level Easy
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Intro 
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  Down at the depot 
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  we used to smile and stop for a chat 
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but it was only a little while 
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  before we would be much more than that 
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  He was a driver on the 78 
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         I was on the 103 
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  Me, I had always been pretty straight 
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  He was more Freddie Mercury 
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And he was the man for me. 
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And we were the talk of the depot down in Torquay 

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  Down at the depot 
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  we used to smile and stop for a chat 
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but it was only a little while 
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before we would be much more than that. 
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The place we were driving at. 
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Well we both wore the trousers 
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    and the drivers hat 
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  On the edge of the morning 
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  he's out in the kitchen cooking. 
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  The day is still yawning 
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  and we've already let love get a look in 
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  Let love get a look in. 

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He gave me a silvery cigarette lighter it was brighter than the others. 
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It was a Zipper. 
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Hold on tight for heaven's light when that sickness really began to bight 
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and he had to leave the depot 
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I kept him in touch with which inspector said what to such and such 
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I kept him in touch 
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He'd never hold another steering wheel and I held him in my arms, 
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and I told him I loved him very much. 

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  On the edge of his hospital bed 
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  the linen's as white as any swan. 
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  I went out for a cigarette. 
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  I came back in and he was gone. 
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Outro 
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  Sometimes us chaps we had to keep our love under wraps 
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and now here's a little rhapsody for John 
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Bohemian John. 
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The things that people used to say 
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when they found out we were from Torbay. 

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