Biography:
The Divine Comedy is a baroque pop band now based in Dublin, Ireland, fronted by Neil Hannon.
Neil Hannon, Originally from Derry, has been the only ever-present member of the band, being its founder in 1989 when he was joined by John McCullagh and Kevin Traynor. Their first album, the heavily R.E.M.-influenced and now-deleted Fanfare for the Comic Muse, enjoyed little success though. A couple of equally unsuccessful EPs - Timewatch (1991); Europop (1992) - were to follow
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Other songs:
- Catherine The Great
- Funny Peculiar
- Have You Ever Been In Love
- How Can You Leave Me On My Own
- I Joined The Foreign Legion (to Forget)
- Neapolitan Girl
- A Desperate Man
- A Lady Of A Certain Age
- Absent Friends
- At The Indie Disco
- Bad Ambassador
- Becoming More Like Alfie
- Come Home Billy Bird
- Down In The Streets Below
- Everyone Knows Except You
- Eye Of The Needle
- I Joined The Foreign Legion To Forget
- I Like
- If
- Love What You Do
- Mastermind
- Mother Dear
- National Express
- Our Mutual Friend
- Perfect Lovesong
- Songs Of Love
- Summerhouse
- Sunrise
- The Light Of Day
- The Pact
- To Die A Virgin
- To The Rescue
- Tonight We Fly
- Woman Of The World
- Your Daddys Car
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A Lady of A Certain Age: The Divine Comedy
[Intro] (finger style)
F(X2), G7(X2), C(X2), C/Bb(X2), Fadd9/A(X2), G7sus4(X2), G7(X1 strum)
[Verse 1]
Am Fmaj7/A
Back in the day you had been part of the smart set
G7 C9 C
You holidayed with kings, dined out with starlets
F Dm6
From London to New York, Cap-Ferrat to Capri
Am/F E7
In perfume by Chanel and clothes by Givenchy
Am Fmaj7
You sipped camparis with David and Peter
G7 Csus2 C
At Noel's parties by Lake Geneva
Fmaj7 Dm6
Scaling the dizzy heights of high society
Am E7
Armed only with a cheque-book and a family tree
[Chorus]
F G
You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur
C C/Bb
Until the light of youth became obscured
F G7
And left you on your own and in the shade
Bb6 Dm E
An English lady of a certain age
F G
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
C C/Bb
You'd say with a conspire-a-tor-i-al wink
F Fm
"You wouldn't think that I was seventy"
F/G G Am
And he'd say, "no, you couldn't be!"
[Verse 2]
Am Fmaj7/A
You had to marry someone very, very rich
G7 C9 C
So that you might be kept in the style to which
F Dm6
You had all of your life been accustomed to
Am/F E7
But that the socialists had taxed away from you
Am Fmaj7
You gave him children, a girl and a boy
G7 Csus2 C
To keep your sanity a nanny was employed
Fmaj7 Dm6
And when the time came they were sent away
Am E7
Well that was simply what you did in those days
[Chorus]
F G
You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur
C C/Bb
Until the light of youth became obscured
F G7
And left you on your own and in the shade
Bb6 Dm E
An English lady of a certain age
F G
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
C C/Bb
You'd say with a conspire-a-tor-i-al wink
F Fm
"You wouldn't think that I was seventy"
F/G G Am
And he'd say, "no, you couldn't be!"
[Verse 3]
Am Fmaj7/A
Your son's in stocks and bonds and lives back in Surrey
G7 C9 C
Flies down once in a while and leaves in a hurry
F Dm6
Your daughter never finished her finishing school
Am/F E7
Married a strange young man of whom you don't approve
Am Fmaj7
Your husband's hollow heart gave out one Christmas Day
G7 Csus2 C
He left the villa to his mistress in Marseilles
Fmaj7 Dm6
And so you come here to escape your little flat
Am E7
Hoping someone will fill your glass and let you chat about how
[Chorus]
F G
You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur
C C/Bb
Until the light of youth became obscured
F G7
And left you on your own and in the shade
Bb6 Dm E
An English lady of a certain age
F G
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
C C/Bb
You'd say with a conspire-a-tor-i-al wink
F Fm
"You wouldn't think that I was seventy"
F/G G Am
And he'd say, "no, you couldn't be!"
[Outro]
F – G – C – C/Bb – F – G7 – Bb6 – Dm – F – G – C – C/Bb – F – Fm – F/G – G – Am
(finger style)
C – C/Bb – F/A – Fm – G - Finish on one strum of C
[Intro] (finger style)
F(X2), G7(X2), C(X2), C/Bb(X2), Fadd9/A(X2), G7sus4(X2), G7(X1 strum)
[Verse 1]
Am Fmaj7/A
Back in the day you had been part of the smart set
G7 C9 C
You holidayed with kings, dined out with starlets
F Dm6
From London to New York, Cap-Ferrat to Capri
Am/F E7
In perfume by Chanel and clothes by Givenchy
Am Fmaj7
You sipped camparis with David and Peter
G7 Csus2 C
At Noel's parties by Lake Geneva
Fmaj7 Dm6
Scaling the dizzy heights of high society
Am E7
Armed only with a cheque-book and a family tree
[Chorus]
F G
You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur
C C/Bb
Until the light of youth became obscured
F G7
And left you on your own and in the shade
Bb6 Dm E
An English lady of a certain age
F G
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
C C/Bb
You'd say with a conspire-a-tor-i-al wink
F Fm
"You wouldn't think that I was seventy"
F/G G Am
And he'd say, "no, you couldn't be!"
[Verse 2]
Am Fmaj7/A
You had to marry someone very, very rich
G7 C9 C
So that you might be kept in the style to which
F Dm6
You had all of your life been accustomed to
Am/F E7
But that the socialists had taxed away from you
Am Fmaj7
You gave him children, a girl and a boy
G7 Csus2 C
To keep your sanity a nanny was employed
Fmaj7 Dm6
And when the time came they were sent away
Am E7
Well that was simply what you did in those days
[Chorus]
F G
You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur
C C/Bb
Until the light of youth became obscured
F G7
And left you on your own and in the shade
Bb6 Dm E
An English lady of a certain age
F G
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
C C/Bb
You'd say with a conspire-a-tor-i-al wink
F Fm
"You wouldn't think that I was seventy"
F/G G Am
And he'd say, "no, you couldn't be!"
[Verse 3]
Am Fmaj7/A
Your son's in stocks and bonds and lives back in Surrey
G7 C9 C
Flies down once in a while and leaves in a hurry
F Dm6
Your daughter never finished her finishing school
Am/F E7
Married a strange young man of whom you don't approve
Am Fmaj7
Your husband's hollow heart gave out one Christmas Day
G7 Csus2 C
He left the villa to his mistress in Marseilles
Fmaj7 Dm6
And so you come here to escape your little flat
Am E7
Hoping someone will fill your glass and let you chat about how
[Chorus]
F G
You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur
C C/Bb
Until the light of youth became obscured
F G7
And left you on your own and in the shade
Bb6 Dm E
An English lady of a certain age
F G
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
C C/Bb
You'd say with a conspire-a-tor-i-al wink
F Fm
"You wouldn't think that I was seventy"
F/G G Am
And he'd say, "no, you couldn't be!"
[Outro]
F – G – C – C/Bb – F – G7 – Bb6 – Dm – F – G – C – C/Bb – F – Fm – F/G – G – Am
(finger style)
C – C/Bb – F/A – Fm – G - Finish on one strum of C
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