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Under One Roof The Rubettes Baby I Know 1977 |A / / .E| |A / / .E|
ABilly ran away from his home to find away to lEive in peace His E7Mama didn't give a damn about him His Papa's on the rAun from the Police When BiDlly hit the city - the city hit Billy ANo one needs you when your down and out Then one kind guy with the pEainted eyes Picked him E7up and bailed him oAut
AUnder one roof shE7aring one room Nobody cared about tAhem under one roof shE7aring one room daring the world to pAart them
Billy found it hard to find a job to make some pay AII day looking round getting me down I was being turned away And Johnny was the only one who didn't talk down To Billy from up above and for the first time in his life Billy found out what it felt like to be loved Under one roof sharing one love Nobody cared about them under one roof sharing one love
daring the world to pAart themF7
BbSomehow Billy's Papa found out all about the style of FBilly's life And it diF7dn't take long before he came round and he Bbhad a knife He cEbut up Johnny stole all his money He cBballed him all the names that he could find Said he'd wait for Billy at the facFtory tomorrow And sF7how him what they do to Billy's kind
BbUnder one roof sF7haring one love Now the whole world knew aBbbout them under one roof sF7haring one love daring the world to pBbart themF#7
BJohnny said "Billy we can run away from theF# world no more I'm goF#7nna fetch my daddy
I'm gonna show the world who I'm
Bliving for and Eif I lose my job If I lose my life yBou'll know one thing is true He can take away anyF#thing from me But he wF#7on't take me from you"
And at five thirty dead his daddy waited at the factory For him to come and how it did degrade Him he cut him and he slayed him And spat on him in front of ev'ryone As Billy lay dying his Papa started crying Because the parent through him he became And all because the person who has the first to give him love Had been a man