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[Verse 1]
 A                                      C#m
If you are more blitz than ritz they'll tell you every day
           F#m                                  D
That she's much too proud to take you out, her dreams a frock away
      A               F#m
And oh, her majesty knows
      D                             E
That damn fine girls need damn fine clothes


[Verse 2]
A                                  C#m
Young girls dance in arabesques so swiftly through the dark
             F#m                               D
And they're haunted by those hounds of men who search for tell tale hearts
    A                F#m
And oh, we all still know
          D                             E
That it's far too hard to ever let them go


[Chorus]
Bm                   D                       A
"Don't lose sight of what you were hoping to be"
             F#m    C#m
Blood stains a rosary
       Bm                           D                A        E   F#m  D
And by night the choir's screaming "set that child alight."


[Verse 3]
A                                 C#m
If you long for foreign seas when winter proves too cruel
           F#m                           D
They'll be spitting from balconies, the drunken priest's a fool
      A                     F#m
God knows, he's too poor to go
         D                    E
Begging down on the streets below


[Verse 4]
A                                C#m
Red lace from another class tied loosely round their necks
            F#m                                            D
And there's young love bound in blood stained gowns, they almost had their heads
     A                F#m
And oh, we all still know
      D                                     E
That borrowed highs aren't worth the awful lows


[Chorus]
Bm                   D                       A
"Don't lose sight of what you were hoping to be"
             F#m    C#m
Blood stains a rosary
       Bm                           D                A        C#m   F#m  D
And by night the choir's screaming "set that child alight."


[Outro]
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 A         F#m                  Bm
ohhhh if foreign seas prove too cruel
            E                    A
they'll be spitting from balconies
    F#m                      Bm          E       A
and oh the village they did cry         ????????????