The Kinks - Lavender Lane: chords

E                    B
Daisy and Teddy had two Cockney boys
     A                           E
And two Cockney sisters and they all
shared their toys
                          B
With old Rosie Rooke and Peggy O'Day
     A                           E
They all lived together down in Lavender Lane

Lavender Lane, oh my Lavender Lane
The people were poor and the people were plain
They didn't have much but they shared
what they gained
Contented to drift along Lavender Lane

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Oh Lord, such a pity that the world's gotta change

E                      B
All of the houses were old and decayed
     A                              E
The people were proud who lived in Lavender Lane
E         B           A A7
Oh Lord, Lavender Lane
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Oh Lord, Lavender Lane

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Sometimes I wanna get back home and do the things
    F#    E
we did before
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And break down the old school tie, and all
              A7
the la-di-do-dahs

The knobs and the toffs sent down two la-di-dahs
To mix with the people and to drink in their bars
They looked down their noses and they
puffed their cigars
Instead of 'off' they say 'orf',
instead of 'yeah' they say 'ya'

And oh Lord
And Ted and Daisy said, 'what a shame'
They'll knock all the houses down
for financial gain
And send all the people to a new town estate

Oh Lord, they gutted Lavender Lane
Whoa-oh, they gutted Lavender Lane
Sometimes I wanna get back home
and do the things we did before
And break down the old school tie,
and all the la-di-do-dahs

In the great London Council a decision was made
By the bright civil servants and the people in grey
They sent all their navvies with
their buckets and spades
To knock all the houses down in Lavender Lane

But worst of all, they've taken all the people away
Now only memories are all that remain
Of all of the people down in Lavender Lane

Oh Lord, they gutted Lavender Lane
Whoa-oh, they gutted Lavender Lane
Whoa-oh, they gutted Lavender Lane
Whoa-oh, they gutted Lavender Lane