GC
Down on Cyprus Avenue,
DGC
With a childlike vision, leaping into view.
DG
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled show;
CDGC
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George.
DG
Marching with the soldier boy behind;
CDG
He's much older now, with hat on, drinking wine.
CDG
And that smell of sweet per-fume comes drifting through,
CDGCD
The cool night air like Shalimar.
[Verse 2]
GC
And outside they're making all the stops,
DG
The kids out in the street, col-lecting bottle tops.
CDG
Gone for cigarettes and matches in the shops;
CDGCD
Happy taken, Madame George.
CG
That's when you fall, woah, that's when you fall,
Yeah, that's when you fall.
[Verse 3]
G
When you fall into a trance,
CDG
Sitting on a sofa, playing games of chance.
CDG
With your folded arms and history books, you glance;
CDGCD
Into the eyes of Madame George.
[Verse 4]
G
And you think you found the bag;
CDG
You're getting weaker and your knees begin to sag.
CDG
In the corner, playing dominoes, in drag;
CDGCD
The one and only, Madame George.
[Verse 5]
G
And then from outside, the frosty window raps,
CD
She jumps up and says;
G
Lord have mercy, I think that it's the cops.
CDGC
And i-mmediately, drops everything she gots,
DGCD
Down into the street below.
[Verse 6]
G
And you know you gotta go,
CDG
On that train from Dublin, up to Sandy Row.
CDG
Throwing pennies at the bridges down below.
CDGC
And the rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
DG
Say good-bye to Madame George.
CDG
Dry your eye for Madame George,
CDGCD
Wonder why for Madame George.
[Verse 7]
G
And as you leave, the room is filled with music;
CDG
Laughing, music, dancing music, all around the room.
CD
And all the little boys come around,
GCDGCD
Walking a-way from it all, so cold.
G
And as you're a-bout to leave,
CDG
She jumps up and says; hey love, you for-got your gloves.
CD
And the love that loves, the love that loves, the love that loves,
GCD
To love, the love, that loves to love.
[Coda]
GCDG
To say goodbye to Madame George, dry your eye for Madame George.
CDGCDG
Wonder why for Madame George, dry your eyes for Madame George.
CDG
Say good-bye in the wind and the rain, on the back street,
CD
In the backstreet, in the back street.
G
Say goodbye, say goodbye to Madame George.
CDG
In the backstreet, in the back street, in the back street.
CDG
Down home, down home, in the back street, gotta go;
CDG
Say good-bye, goodbye, good-bye.
CDG
Dry your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye.
CDG
Say good-bye to Madame George,
CDG
And the loves to love, to love, the love.
CDG
Say good-bye, goodbye, goodbye, good-bye,
CDG
Ooh... mmm...
CDG
Say good-bye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye to Madame George.
CDGCDG
Dry your eye for Madame George, wonder why for Madame George.
CDG
The love's to love, the love's to love, the love's to love.
CDGC
Say good-bye, good-bye.
DGCDG
Get on the train, get on the train, the train, the train.
CDG
This is the train, this is the train.
CDG
Woah, say good-bye, good-bye.
CDG
Get on the train, get on the train...