Laughs And Jokes And Drinks And Smokes(Chords)

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Am 

Laughs and jokes 
      C          F 
And drinks and smokes 
     C                       F 
And no lights on the stairs 
         Am 
We were young, so young 
    C             F 
And always broke 
      G           Am    F 
Not that we ever cared 
      C    G      C 
Not that we ever cared 


           G            F 
Well, the holes in the walls 
      C          G 
Were such a lot 
            F           C 
Welcome to London town 
                 G        F 
But when you're new to it all 
          C 
And you think you're hot 
             G          F              C 
You're not planning on hanging around 
 C                        F 
People would go on their different ways 
   C                    Am   F 
I left to start a band 
   G           F         C          G 
A note came through the letter box 
          F        C 
In your childlike hand 


     Am 
Oh, laughs and jokes 
      C          F 
And drinks and smokes 
     C                 F 
And no lights on the stairs 
         Am 
We were young, so young 
    C        F 
And always broke 
      G           Am    F 
Not that we ever cared 
      C    G      C 
Not that we ever cared 


     G     F        C 
One day I rode to where you were 
     G        F         C 
The doorbell jangled a note 
      G            F 
They buzzed me in 
    C 
I climbed the stairs 
       G         F            C 
In my boots and leather coat 
           C 
There's an old brass 
               F 
Standing there at the top 
    C                 Am   F 
Without her witch's broom 
   G       F              C 
It almost seemed like a knocking shop 
          G         F             C 
When the girls came out of their rooms 


         G           F 
And they all stood around 
      C 
And stared at me 
      G          F    C     G 
Two brunettes and a blonde 
         F            C 
Then the old brass shrugged and said 
    G              F       C    C 
We don't know where she's gone 
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Later on I picked up the ball 
       C                 Am   F 
And I took off down the line 
      G        F       C 
I suppose by then I'd realised 
       G      F            C 
You'd run into hard times 


     Am 
Oh, laughs and jokes 
      C          F 
And drinks and smokes 
     C                 F 
And no lights on the stairs 
         Am 
We were young, so young 
    C        F 
And always broke 
      G           Am    F 
Not that we ever cared 
      C/G  G      C 
Not that we ever cared 


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Written by Mark Knopfler