A Lady of a Certain Age – TAB – Divine Comedy – Neil Hannon

Here’s my tab to one of my favourite Neil Hannon songs called “A Lady of a Certain Age” from the Divine Comedy album “Victory For The Comic Muse”.

I was fortunate to see Neil play the song and noticed that he had a capo on the 3rd fret… from there it was a case of watching his fingers and listening to the notes he was playing. This is a great tune.

You are welcome to link to this page if you like – let me know how you get on if you try and play it! There’s a deliberate mistake in the outro – can you spot it?

Audio:

Intro: 

Verse: 

Chorus: 

Outro: 

TAB as follows:

Song: A Lady Of A Certain Age
By: The Divine Comedy
Written by: Neil Hannon
Tabbed by: Chris Seeley (chris@dataclinic.co.uk)
Standard Tuning:
Capo on 3rd Fret
Fingerpick throughout (Neil plays this with a pick)

Intro:
e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--4---3---4---4---4---4---3---------------------------|
G|--5---3---3---3---3---3---3---------------------------|
D|--6---6---5---5---6---6---6---------------------------|
A|----------6---4---3-----------------------------------|
E|--4---6---------------6---6---------------------------|

Verse:
e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--4--------------------------4------------------------|
G|--5--------------------------5------------------------|
D|--5--------------------------6------------------------|
A|--3--------------------------3------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------|
    Back in the day....     ..part of the smart set

e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--6--------------------------6------------------------|
G|--3--------------------------3------------------------|
D|--6--------------------------5------------------------|
A|-----------------------------6------------------------|
E|--6---------------------------------------------------|
    Holidayed with kings..  ..dined out with starlets

e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--4--------------------------3------------------------|
G|--5--------------------------5------------------------|
D|--5--------------------------5------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|--4--------------------------4------------------------|
    From London to...       ..Cap Ferrat to Capri

e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--4--------------------------3------------------------|
G|--5--------------------------4------------------------|
D|--5--------------------------3------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|--3--------------------------3------------------------|
    In perfume by Chanel..  ..& clothes by

Chorus:
e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--4-------------------------3-------------------------|
G|--5-------------------------3-------------------------|
D|--6-------------------------6-------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|--4-------------------------6-------------------------|
    Chased the sun...       ..Cote d'Azur
    And if a nice young..   ..buy you a drink

e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--4-------------------------4-------------------------|
G|--3-------------------------3-------------------------|
D|--5-------------------------5-------------------------|
A|--6-------------------------4-------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------|
    Until the light...      ..became obscure
    You'd say with..        ..conspiratorial wink

e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--4------------------------4-------3------------------|
G|--3------------------------3-------3------------------|
D|--6------------------------6-------6------------------|
A|--3--------------------------------5------------------|
E|---------------------------6--------------------------|
    And left you all..     ..in the shade

e|---------------------------4-------3------------------|
B|--6------------------------4-------3------------------|
G|--3------------------------5-------4------------------|
D|--6------------------------3-------5------------------|
A|--4---------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------|
    An English Lady..      ..Certain Age

e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--4-----------------------4---------------------------|
G|--3-----------------------3---------------------------|
D|--6-----------------------6---------------------------|
A|--3---------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------7---------------------------|
    You wouldn't think..    Seventy..

e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--4------------3--------------------------------------|
G|--3------------3--------------------------------------|
D|--6------------6--------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|--6------------6--------------------------------------|
    And he'd say no...

Outro:
e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--4---4---4---4---3----4------------------------------|
G|--3---3---3---3---3----3------------------------------|
D|--5---5---6---6---6----5------------------------------|
A|--6---4---3------------6------------------------------|
E|--------------6---6-----------------------------------|

~ by Chris (Learn Blues) on December 3, 2011.