A Decent Cup Of Tea

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 Title: A Decent Cup Of Tea 
 Artist: Frank Turner 
 Album: Sleep Is For The Week 
  
 Instrument: 6 String Guitar 
  
 Tabbed by: Josh Seldis (themanwiththeridiculouslylongaddress@hotmail.com) 
  
 Notes: 
 This is the best i can do from ear, although i'm positive it's note-for-note.. 
 The song is played on acoustic guitar, finger picked. 
 Standard tuning. 
  
  
 Intro 
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 VERSE 
 Probably best to work out the rhythm of the lyrics against the song. 
  
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    There hadn't been a day when everything had turned out right, 
    She called me up and asked me to come over in the night 
  
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    To make her cups of tea and listen quietly as she starts 
    To list the latest bunch of bastards who trampled on her 
  
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    Heart 
  
 CHORUS 
  
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    She summers by my seat, 
    She winters without me 
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    She cries into her tea, that she's 
  
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    Secretly lonely, only, 
  
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    What am i to do? It's obvious to me, She never seems to see. 
  
 VERSE 2 
  
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    I see her in the nightclubs, 
    I meet her in the bars, 
    At rooftop after-parties, 
    All crammed into friends cars 
  
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    And we talk about the weather, 
    And how she drowns her pain in drink, 
  
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    And i nod, and never ever dare 
    To tell her what i think. 
  
 CHORUS 2 
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    She summers by my seat, 
    She winters without me 
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    She cries into her tea, that she's 
  
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    Secretly lonely, only, 
  
  
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    What am i to do? It's obvious to me, She never seems to see. 
  
 BRIDGE 
  
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    That it's not about the days when everything has turned out right, 
    It's more about the moments when she calls me in the night. 
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    To make her cups of tea and wash the weary worries from her head, 
    And then to draw the pain out slowly as i put her into bed. 
  
 END 
  
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    And i slip this information into every conversation, 
    She never seems to listen, 
    She never seems to 
  
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         See.