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A Decent Cup Of Tea

Frank Turner

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Title: A Decent Cup Of Tea
Artist: Frank Turner
Album: Sleep Is For The Week

Instrument: 6 String Guitar

Tabbed by: Josh Seldis (themanwiththeridiculouslylongaddress@hotmail.com)

Notes:
This is the best i can do from ear, although i'm positive it's note-for-note..
The song is played on acoustic guitar, finger picked.
Standard tuning.


Intro
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VERSE
Probably best to work out the rhythm of the lyrics against the song.

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A |2---2---2---2---|0---0---0---0---|----------------|----------------||
E |----------------|----------------|4---4---4---4---|3---3---3---3---||
   There hadn't been a day when everything had turned out right,
   She called me up and asked me to come over in the night

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G |-3---3---3---3--|---4---4---4---4|-4---4---4---4--|-6---6---6---6--||
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E |2---2---2---2---|----------------|3---3---3---3---|5---5---5---5---||
   To make her cups of tea and listen quietly as she starts
   To list the latest bunch of bastards who trampled on her

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D |---0---0---0---0||
A |--0---0---0---0-||
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   Heart

CHORUS

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A |--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-||
E |7---7---3---3---|2---2---2---2---|7---7---3---3---|2---2---2---2---||
   She summers by my seat,
   She winters without me
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D |---0---0---0---0|---0---0---0---0||
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E |7---7---3---3---|2---2---2---2---||
   She cries into her tea, that she's

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G |-7---7---7---7--|-6---6---6---6--||
D |---0---0---0---0|---0---0---0---0||
A |--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-||
E |7---7---6---6---|5---5---5---5---||
   Secretly lonely, only,

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D |---0---0---0---0|---0---0---0---0|---0---0---0---0|-----0-----0-----0-----|
A |--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|----0-----0-----0------|
E |7---7---3---3---|2---2---2---2---|3---3---5---5---|10----10----10----10---|
   What am i to do? It's obvious to me, She never seems to see.

VERSE 2

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A |2---2---2---2---|0---0---0---0---|----------------|----------------||
E |----------------|----------------|4---4---4---4---|3---3---3---3---||
   I see her in the nightclubs,
   I meet her in the bars,
   At rooftop after-parties,
   All crammed into friends cars

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B |----------------|-3---3---3---3--||
G |-3---3---3---3--|---4---4---4---4||
D |---4---4---4---4|--4---4---4---4-||
A |--4---4---4---4-|2---2---2---2---||
E |2---2---2---2---|----------------||
   And we talk about the weather,
   And how she drowns her pain in drink,

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B |----------------|----------------||
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D |---5---5---5---5|---7---7---7---7||
A |--5---5---5---5-|--7---7---7---7-||
E |3---3---3---3---|5---5---5---5---||
   And i nod, and never ever dare
   To tell her what i think.

CHORUS 2
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A |--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-||
E |7---7---3---3---|2---2---2---2---|7---7---3---3---|2---2---2---2---||
   She summers by my seat,
   She winters without me
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B |----------------|----------------||
G |-7---7---4---4--|-2---2---2---2--||
D |---0---0---0---0|---0---0---0---0||
A |--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-||
E |7---7---3---3---|2---2---2---2---||
   She cries into her tea, that she's

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A |--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-||
E |7---7---6---6---|5---5---5---5---||
   Secretly lonely, only,


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A |--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-||
E |7---7---3---3---|2---2---2---2---|3---3---5---5---|6---6---6---6---||
   What am i to do? It's obvious to me, She never seems to see.

BRIDGE

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A |--2---2---5---5-|--7---7---7---7-|--2---2---5---5-|--5---5---7---7-||
E |0---0---3---3---|5---5---5---5---|0---0---3---3---|3---3---5---5---||
   That it's not about the days when everything has turned out right,
   It's more about the moments when she calls me in the night.
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E |0---0---3---3---|5---5---5---5---|0---0---3---3---|3---3---5---5---||
   To make her cups of tea and wash the weary worries from her head,
   And then to draw the pain out slowly as i put her into bed.

END

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E |6---6---6---6---|7---7---5---5---|3---3---3---3---|6---6---6---6---||
   And i slip this information into every conversation,
   She never seems to listen,
   She never seems to

E |----------------||
B |------7---------||
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A |------5---------||
E |----------------||
        See.