Intro: E
E
Well now the school Christmas party is coming
B
Ain't doing rugby no more
E
McIntyre teaching us waltzing
B
Out on the gymnasium floor
E
Nobody battered or bleeding
B
Nobody's tattered and torn
E
McIntyre's dim, loud in the gym
E D B
Well, we've only got a little (...)
A G E
We've only got a little (...)
C G
And it's you, you, you're a disgrace
C
McIntyre tore us apart
G C
We dance with ourselves, when the (...) find their space
Bm C
Waltzing with fear in our hearts
Am D
Waltzing with fear in our hearts
E (same as intro)
On the big final manoeuvre, all of our heads are a whirl
Getting much closer to the deep thing
This time we'll do it with girls
In the arena the ladies are waiting
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A twelve year old girl for a bride
The matches were fixed, somehow we mixed
And the fat girl got left on the side
The fat girl got left on the side.
C G
And it's you, you, you're a disgrace
C
McIntyre tore us apart
G C
We dance with ourselves, when the (...) find their space
Bm C
Waltzing with fear in our hearts
Am D
Waltzing with fear in our hearts
C D
It's the secondary waltz
E (same as intro) 3X
Then E, D, B and A, G, E (as first couplet at the end)
C G
Well you come to my right, and I am under the light
G/B C
See that my footwork is false
G C
Don't count me out, the start of the bow
Bm C
I'm just doing secondary waltz
Am D
Doing secondary waltz
C D
And it's the secondary waltz
C D
Yeah, it's the secondary waltz
Intro till the end