Chord Honey Im A Big Boy Now by Billy Bragg

honey i’m a big boy now billy bragg from the album : talking with the taxman about poetry posted ultimateguitar . com by matt quinn any corrections or suggestions welcome . one of my all time favourite billy bragg songs . another tragic tale of love gone wrong , this time it’s due to the hero not pulling his weight with the domestic chores . anyone know of any other songs on this theme? do let me know . note that the last chord of the verse pattern is G7 on odd verses when followed by another verse but C7 on even verses when followed by the chorus verse 1 : C C7 i can see the kitchen light F F from the road where i park my bike C C G7 G7 but it’s dark there as it often is these days C C7 and the gloomy living room F F really needs a dust and broom C G7 C but i can’t brush your memory away one bar of G7 after verses 1 & 3; one bar of C7 after verses 2 & 4 verse 2 : her father was an admiral in someone else’s navy and she had seen the world before i met her she would wash and cook and clean and all the other things between and like a fool i just sat there and let her chorus 1 : F F now i can feed and dress and wash myself C F and sleep without the light on C C G7 G7 honey , i’m a big boy now C C7 i don’t know what she does F F with all the money that i send her C G7 C she’s running ’round the town with the young pretender verse 3 : i haven’t touched the garden since the day she walked away from a love affair that bore only bitter fruit she took everything she wanted which is why she left me here with these pots and pans and my old wedding suit verse 4 : a letter came one morning that she would not let me see and from that day i began to realize that she would one day break the home we tried to make for sinners cannot live in paradise chorus 2 : now i can feed and dress and wash myself and sleep without the light on honey , i’m a big boy now i don’t know what she does with all the money that i send her she’s running ’round the town with the young pretender one bar of G7 C C7 i don’t know what she does F F with all the money that i send her C G7 F C she’s running ’round the town with the young pre - tender