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Topic: Mrs Mop

While sitting around at a car boot sale last Sunday I thought I'd just write a short piece of nonsense to stir things up in the pub later that day.
Written with ukelele in mind, I found out once completed I could'nt play it, so I capo'd the guitar 6th fret. As a result the chords shown here indicate the shape not the sound, as explained in the very clever capo conversion chart

                              Mrs Mop
                                         keepitreal
C                                        G
Theirs a woman I've seen, I think I'm in a dream
  D                                            G
Think I'm in a dream when she starts to clean

                        CH
  C           G
Mrs Mop,Mrs Mop
  D                                      G
She cleans the house from bottom to top
  C                           G
Once she starts she just can't stop
  D              C                 G
Thats why I love old Mrs Mop

  C                               G
She always complains about her varicose veins
  D                                    G
And her rheumatic back whenever it rains
  C
But with wrinkles in her stockings
         G
And curlers in her hair
    D                            C      G
A vision of beauty standing there
                 
                   CH

  Am                            F
Some blokes go for a woman in the know
  C                                 G
Others I know put their woman on show
  Am                        F
But when Mrs Mop scrubs my floor
  C                            G
How could any man ask for more

                    CH

  C                                    G
When she get here in the morning
  D                          G
She makes a cup of tea
  C                 G
Puts on her apron
   D                    G
Then mops the lavatory
         C                           G
She cleans the bowl and mops the floor
  D                             G
Then she'll polish it behind the door

                CH

  C                    G
Once I think I caught a
  D                    G
Glimpse of her daughter
  D                      C                    G
Staring through her glass eye at me
  C                          G
Now she may be a winner
  D                      G
even cook your dinner
  D                     C                  G
But Mrs Mop's the only one for me

                     CH
                        & CODA

Be brutal with your comments, the guys in the pub were

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  • Grah1
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Re: Mrs Mop

An amusing little ditty would be well received at many folk clubs in the UK .Well done.

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Re: Mrs Mop

puts me in mind of my mother in law....scrubbing brush goes one way, bum goes t'other, and what a bum, back of a bus.:lol:

cleverly put together, let us know when you've recorded it

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Re: Mrs Mop

Keepitreal, haha funny , I can almost visualize Mrs Mop too.  I think this  would be great on the ukulele.  I know you have done it on guitar which I am sure will be great too .... where can I listen to it?

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  • dino48
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Re: Mrs Mop

I like it.

my papy said son your going too drive me too drinking if you dont stop driving that   Hot  Rod  Lincoln!! Cmdr cody and his lost planet airman
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Re: Mrs Mop

Hi Keepitreal,

I gotta a Beatles style feel from your lyrics in the line of Lovely Rita and that is a good thing.

Well Done

Ken

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Re: Mrs Mop

that is too  funny....

proves the adage - there is always someone for somebody

Maybe you were hypnotized by Tony Robbins - "i.e.  Shallow HAL movie   smile

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