In Arcady, in Arcady
Never saw I such a scene
Such maids upon such remote a green
They employ their holiday with dance and game
And things I may never name
In Arcady, in Arcady
G7
C7
Well, you said he was your teacher
G
Taught you true and wise
G7
C7
But now you know more than your teacher
D7
I see nothing but cool self-regard in your eyes
G6
C7
G
In Arcady
So you see how twisted it becomes
See how quickly twisted it becomes
When cat gut binds my ankles to your bedstead
That ain't love, no that ain't love
Said he was your teacher
And he taught you so true and so wise
Well now you know more than your teacher
I see nothing but cool self-regard in your eyes
In Arcady, in Arcady
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C7
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G
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C7
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D7
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G
C7
G
In Arcady, in Arcady
In Arcady, your life trips along
Pure and simple as the shepherd's song
A few seraphic pipes along the way in Arcady
In Arcady, in Arcady
In Arcady, in Arcady
Last Of The English Roses
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C#m
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A
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x3
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E
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x2
C#m
A
C#m
My, you did look dapper in your mother's old green scarf
A
C#m
With your famous Aunty Arthur's trousers on
A
C#m
Got slapped by that slapper and we all laughed
A
E
But she laughed the loudest in '93
(Could charm the bee's knees off the bee)
"Cheeky" you'd say and we all fell around
Rolling round the playground
"Saucy" you'd say and we all fell about
Rolling around the playground in '94
(We all sang, skipping and dancing, hand in hand)
D
E
Yeah it was all the boys together
D
E
And all the girls together...
A
E
D
A
She's the last of the English roses
A
E
D
A
E
She's the last of the English roses
She knows her Rodneys from her Stanleys and her Kappas from her Reeboks
And her tit from her tat and her Winstons from her Enochs
(It's fine, take the band, coming out, coming alive)
And round the snooker table she danced the Frutti-Tutti
And she almost spilled her lager toasting girls of great beauty
(2009, coming of age, coming alive)
All the boys together
And all the girls together...
She's the last of the English roses
She's the last of the English roses
She's the last of the English roses
She's the last of the English roses
Just wasn't to be his night
Dragged out of the frozen Rhine
For the Motherland and the Third Reich
A toeing's as good as a shoeing
When it's not to be your night
Am
Ab
Tread carefully, so carefully, on the drifting ice
Dbmaj7
Eb
Caught behind enemy lines
E
Am
In 1939
For Germany he sacrificed his life
Caught behind enemy lines
There in 1939
Am
Abm
Am
F
E
Kids knee-deep in rubble
London urchins grey with dust
Packed off ours in evacuations
To farmers' wives, green and pleasant lives, far from the doodlebugs
Nana Doll, she still remembers
Leaving town in worn-out shoes
Now she's back out west in sheltered accommodations
Homes for the old where pills aren't the only blues
Tread carefully, so carefully, upon the drifting ice
Staring blank into the TV guide
In 2009
How it's hurting me, I've only seen her twice
Since you went west for the second time
Since 1939
A Little Death Around The Eyes
D7
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Gm
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Gm
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Cm
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Cm
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Gm
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Gm
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Cm
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Cm
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A little death around the eyes
Em
A7
Your boyfriend's name was Dave
Em
A7
I was bold and brave
D7
And now you're mine
Gm
You'll cook and clean and sew when I tell you to
Cm
Gm
Cm
When I ask you to, if I ask you to, then I want you to
Gm
You don't need telling twice with me, no you don't need telling twice
Cm
You know who wears the trousers, no one wears the trousers
Gm
Cm
(In a nutshell) to break free, yeah well, you'll never break free of me
Your boyfriend's name was Dave
I was bold and brave
And now you're mine
Gm
You'll cook and clean and sew when I tell you to
Cm
And you'll dance and screw when I want you to
Gm
In the hotel room you take your medicine
Cm
On all fours that's your medicine
Gm
Cm
You feeling better, son?
Gm
Cm
(Filling in the cracks) Feeling any better, son?
Gm
Cm
(In a nutshell I'll wish upon a star)
Gm
Some vague idea of a man you used to be
Cm
Gm
Of the man you used to be to me (Filling in the cracks)
Fee-fi-fo-fum, smell the blood of an Englishman
As she dances and demands the head of John the Baptist on a plate
C
F
C
F
In the morning, shaken and disturbed
C
E7
From under soft white fur
F
E7
Am
I see the dust in the morning bright sets the room alight
Dm
Am
And by the telly appears Salome
Dm
Am
I stand before her, amazed
G
E7
Am
F
As she dances and demands the head of Isadora Duncan on a plate
Dm
Am
F
Oh, Salome
Dm
Am
F
Am
Oh, Salome
C
F
C
F
In the cold, coldest of nights
C
E7
F
The fire I light to warm my bones
E7
Am
I've had enough of the dreadful cold
Dm
Am
And from the flames appears Salome
Dm
Am
I stand before her, amazed
G
E7
Am
As she dances and demands the head of any bastard on a plate
I Am The Rain
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Dm
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C9
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Dm
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C9
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Dm
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C9
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G7
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A
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Dm
C9
Dm
C9
I am the rain, held in disdain
Dm
C9
G7
A
Lotions and potions just add to my fame
Dm
C9
Dm
C9
They rhyme that Spain, I fall on the plain
Dm
C9
G7
A
The truth is I'm ruthless, I can't be contained
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Dm
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C9
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Dm
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C9
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Dm
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C9
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G7
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A
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I'm the rain
My friend the wind, with breath he is twinned
Blow high or low high tornadoes to spin
My mother the cloud, in widow's black shroud
Gives birth to the earth before fields can be ploughed
Dm
A
Dm
A
Up in the sky we've demand to supply
Bb
F
C
I am necessity, base of the recipe
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Dm
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C9
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Dm
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C9
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Dm
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C9
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G7
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A
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I, I'm the rain
My cousin the snow lays blankets below
States that her flakes are just threads to be sewn
My rival the sun, who ripens the plum
Is feared and revered, he gives sight to the gun
Up in the sky we've demands to supply
I am necessity, base of the recipe
Up in the sky we've demands to supply
I am necessity, base of the recipe
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Dm
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C9
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Dm
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C9
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Dm
)
I, I'm the rain, I'm the rain
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Dm
C9
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x4
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Dm
C9
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Dm
C9
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Dm
C9
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G
A
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x3
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
I am the rain, who's held in disdain
The truth is I'm ruthless I can't be contained
Sweet By And By
G7
F#7
Was it so long ago?
G7
E7
When we first hit the road?
C
Cm
G
D7
I remember those earlier shows
When we used to go
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G
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G
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D
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D
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D
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D
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G
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G
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Ba-ba da-ba da da da da da da da da-da da-da-da
G7
F#7
Was it so long ago?
G7
E7
When you said you loved me so?
C
Cm
G
And with kisses untold, your love would unfold
D7
G
Oh my where did you go
D
Oh I don't know, you didn't say goodbye
D7
Where did you go? oh you lie
And you left me wandering, wondering
B7
E
If love's just a lie
C#7
C7
Left me wondering if you've found some other guy
G
(
F#
)
E
Well all I do is hang my head and cry
C
D
G7
Sometimes I moan, sometimes I moan
Where did you go?
Oh I don't know, you didn't say goodbye
Where did you go, I don't know, left me wondering
If loves just a lie
Everywhere I go people say "Who's that funny guy?
All he does is hang his head and cries"
Sometimes he moans, sometimes he moans
Oh, oh why?
When we used to go
Ba ba da da...
Palace Of Bone
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Am
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C
/b
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x4
Am
C
/b
We've been a long time together
Time together on a snakey road
There ain't no time spent together
Am
C
/b
Like time spent together on a snakey road
Winding on through the hills together
Winding on that snakey road
Winding on forever
Winding on that snakey road
F
What's that they're telling you?
E
That's your future, I'm telling you!
(
Am
)
They're gonna pick your pocket too
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Am
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C
/b
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x3
We've been a long time together
Time together on a snakey road
There ain't no time spent together
Like time spent together on a snakey road
Winding on through the hills together
Winding on that snakey road
Winding on forever
Winding on that snakey road
What's that they're selling you?
Lotions, potions, selling you
They're gonna pick your pocket or two
Am
And in the clearing...
/a
/c
/d
/d#
/d
/d
/c
/a
/g
/a
I'm going to build me a palace of bone
Dm
E
With wide open walls and an ebony throne
Am
Dm
E
And all the broken children from every broken home
/a
/c
/d
/d#
/d
/d
/c
/a
/g
/a
Can come and live in the palace of bone
I'm going to build me a palace of bone
With wide open walls and an ebony throne
There ain't no blackened heart, no innocent soul
Can come and dance in the palace of bone?
She didn't listen anyway...
She just opened her heart
Threw her cares away
And they held on so tight in the dark
He brushed her hair away
She heard him say
All my life I've been fighting
And making the best of
Bm
C#m
D
E
And willing very bad luck, very bad luck
Bm
C#m
D
E
Very... very bad luck to Thee
All your fighting got you nowhere
If nowhere's here with you on my skin
And you can fight forever
But if you killed them all you'd never win
So give me your surrender
There are other ways to kill the pain
But things will never mend you
It's like trying to dry your eyes in the pouring rain
She opened her heart
To tearaway, a sheepskin tearaway
Was covered with scars and full of heroin
Tearaway, sheepskin tearaway
Sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep
Sheepskin tearaway
Broken Love Song
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Em
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B7
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Bm
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A7
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x2
Em
B7
Bm
A7
Take a broken love song, keep it by your side
Em
B7
Bm
A7
Never be lonely, find a place to hide
Em
B7
Bm
A7
By the west way, inside the scrubs
Em
B7
Bm
A7
Em
How long must we wait, for they're killing us? Killing us
Bm
F#m
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
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Em
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B7
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Bm
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A7
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x2
Through my cell window, hear the loft boys sing
Come on you R's, carried on the wind
Every morning, I'll be singing like a caged bird who might say
John, Paul, George and Ringo help pass the hours away
Free as a bird would I be, another dawn creeps up on me on me, ah-ah-ah...
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
B7
D
E
G
Letters from faceless haters who'd love to, to see me swinging in my cell
A
B
D
Oh I, I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye
E
G
A
Upon that little tent of blue that prisoners call the sky
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
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Em
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B7
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Bm
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A7
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x2
Take a broken love song, keep it by your side
New Love Grows On Trees
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E
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Am
D
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x2
Are you still talking to
All of those dead film stars
Like you used to?
And are you still thinking of
All of those pretty rhymes and perfect crimes
Like you used to?
And if you're still alive when you're twenty-five
Shall I kill you
Like you asked me to?
If you're still alive when you're twenty-five
Shall I kill you?
I know you told me to, but I really don't want to
G
A
E
I remember every single thing you said to me
You were the man and I was Calvary
And you said, ah you said new love grows on trees
New love grows on trees
New love grows... new love grows on trees
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E
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Am
D
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x2
G#m
C#m
That makes perfect nonsense to me
F#
But the price of being free these days
B
C
B
It's ridiculous
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E
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Am
D
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x2
Are you still shaking out
All the dead wood from your bed love
Like you used to? Well, times don't change
Are you still thinking of
All of those perfect lines for love divine
You really don't have to
And if you're still alive when you're twenty-five
Oh, shall I kill you
Like you asked me to?
If you're still alive when you're twenty-five
Oh, shall I kill you?
You told me to, but I really don't want to
I remember every single thing you said to me
You were the man and I was Calvary
And you said, ah you said
New love grows on trees
New love grows on trees
New love grows on... new love grows on trees
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