The perfect introduction to an album like Brutal Youth, which I describe as all of
EC&A's previous work thrown into a blender to create a fantastic mix.
Intro: D Dsus4 D[5x]
G
She lives on Pony Street
G C
And they should scatter flowers at her feet
D C G
But when they come calling I think it's appalling
Am D G
They're sober and they're polite
D C G
They're deeply respectful when I would expect them
Am D
To keep her out all night
G
That little martinet
G C
Will get her own way yet
D C G
If you need instruction in mindless destruction
Am D G
I'll show you a thing or two
D C G Am
You used to adore me but now my life flashes before me
D
For you to view
D A D G Em
Oh mother, oh mother, sometimes you are so mortifying
D A D G Em
From the hole in your leopard skin tights I can tell you've been spying
D A D G Em
But your generation confesses before it transgresses
D A D G Em
Those Super-8 movies of daddy in your disco dresses
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G
If you're going out tonight
C Am
I won't wait up
Reading "Das Kapital"
A
Watching "Home Shopping Club"
D
While you're flogging a dead horse
C G D G
All the way down Pony Street
D G D
Where you live after a fashion
C G D G
All the way down Pony Street
D G C
The life and the soul of every indiscretion
Am D
That lives on, that lives on, that lives on
C G/B
Pony Street
D A D G Em
Daughter, oh daughter, you know I will love you forever
D A D G Em
But spare me the white ankle socks with the lace and the leather
F A D G Em
For you and your cartoon threat do no good to resist me
F A D G Em
For I am the genuine thing but for you it's just history
G
If you're going out tonight
C Am
How can you be sure
Where you lay your pretty head
A
Mother may have been before
D
So you're flogging a dead horse
C G D G
All the way down Pony Street
D G D
Where you live after a fashion
C G D G
All the way down Pony Street
D G C
The life and the soul of every indiscretion
Am Am
That lives on, That lives on
Am A A
That lives on, That lives on, That lives on
D Dsus4 D
She lives on Pony Street [2x]
D Dsus4 D D Dsus4 D
She lives on, she lives on [2x]
D Dsus4 D until fade out
