[Verse 1]
[G]          [D]                    [C]
Ever see a blind man cross the road
[C]                        [G]
Trying to make the other side
[G]           [D]                  [C]
Ever see a young girl growing old
[C]                        [G]
Trying to make herself a bride

[Chorus 1]
[Em]                 [D]
So what becomes of you my love
[G]                      [A]
When they have finally stripped you of
[C]
The handbags and the gladrags
[C]         [Am]                 [D]                [G]
That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you

[Verse 2]
[G]                [D]
Once I was a young man
[C]                                 [G]
And all I thought I had to do was smile
[G]                                [D]
Well you are still a young girl
[C]                            [G]
And you bought everything in style

[Chorus 2]
[Em]                      [D]
So once you think you're in you're out
 [G]                     [A]
'Cos you don't mean a single thing without
[C]                     [C]
The handbags and the gladrags
           [Am]               [D]                  [G]
That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you

[Verse 3]
[G]               [D]                  [C]
Sing a song of six-pence for your sake
[C]                         [G]
And take a bottle full of rye
[G]                [D]               [C]
Four and twenty blackbirds in a cake
[C]                      [G]
And bake them all in a pie

[Chorus 3]
[Em]                      [D]
They told me you missed school today
[G]                          [A]
So what I suggest you just throw them all away
[C]
The handbags and the gladrags
[C]          [Am]              [D]                  [G]
That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you

Oh oh

[Chorus 4]
[Em]                      [D]
They told me you missed school today
[G]                          [A]
So what I suggest you just throw them all away
[C]
The handbags and the gladrags
[C]         [Am]               [D]                   [G]
That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you