Deacon Blue

Dignity

Deacon Blue


Tom: D

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[Verse 1]
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There`s a man I meet, walks up our street,
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He`s a worker for the council, has been twenty years
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And he takes no lip off nobody, and litter off the gutter,
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Puts it in a bag, and never thinks to mutter
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And he packs his lunch in a Sunblest bag, The children call him Bogie,
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He never lets on, but I know `cause he once told me
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He let me know a secret, about the money in his kitty,
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He`s gonna buy a dinghy, gonna call her Dignity

[Chorus]
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And I`ll sail her up the west coast, through villages and towns,
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I`ll be on my holidays, they`ll be doing their rounds
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They`ll ask me how I got her, I`ll say, I saved my money
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They`ll say isn`t she pretty, that ship called Dignity

[Verse 2]
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And I'm telling this story, in a faraway scene
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Sipping down Raki, and reading Maynard Keynes
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And I'm thinking about home, and all that means
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And a place in the winter, for Dignity

[Chorus]
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And I`ll sail her up the west coast, through villages and towns,
F#m                     Bm
I`ll be on my holidays, they`ll be doing their rounds
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They`ll ask me how I got her, I`ll say, I saved my money
F#m                                  Bm F#m    G    A   D
They`ll say isn`t she pretty, that ship called Dignity

D                                                             Dsus2
Set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up
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Yeah, set it up again, set it up again, set it up again, set it up again
D                                                             Dsus2
Set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up
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Yeah, set it up again, set it up again, set it up again, set it up again

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And I'm thinking about home
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And I'm thinking about faith
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And I'm thinking about work
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And I'm thinking, how good it would be
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To be here some day
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On a ship called Dignity, a ship called Dignity
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That ship...