Government Bookstore

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Not the hospital gown you're wearing
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Or the bad luck that dogs us down
       Dm  C     Bb  F  Gm
What's done is done
                C         F
They burned the old place down

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Run around in the reference section
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Tried to catch the attendants eye
    Dm   C        Bb        F  Gm
Ten years on the night shift
             C        F
Well I don't work tonight

Dm     C             Dm
All my books are on loan
          Bb          C          F
Since the government bookstore closed

Gm     C             Dm
All my books are on loan
          Bb          Am7       Bb    F
Since the government bookstore closed

F        Am         Bb    F
Well we met in the hotel lobby
F     Am7     Bb    C        Dm
The executor read aloud the will
     C       Bb    F  Gm
No wake, no eulogy
             C     F
From this pathetic crowd

A
It's no Bloomsbury afternoon
       Dm                      C
Just a couple of soaks and the village fool

F           Am            Bb         F
Well they closed down the whole main building
F       Am7        Bb          C          Dm
Boarded up and the main gates staying locked
C         Bb        F  Gm
Used to steal things
               C     F
From this now empty shop