Key: C
Introduction:
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string, keeping the 1st and 4th fingers planted.
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A Am C D2
The minstrel in the gallery
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A D2 A
looked down upon the smiling faces.
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F C F G
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D2 A
between the old men's cackle.
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A Am C D2
He brewed a song of love and hatred -
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G
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G D2 A
oblique suggestions and he waited.
F C F G C
He polarized the pumpkin eaters -
F C F G C
static-humming panel-beaters -
F C F G C
freshly day-glow'd factory cheaters
F C F G C
(salaried and collar-scrubbing).
A Am C D2
He titillated men-of-action -
F C F G
belly warming, hands still rubbing
G D2 A
on the parts they never mention.
A Am C D2 G
He pacified the nappy-suffering,
G D2 D4 A
infant-bleating one-line jokers -
F C F G C
T.V. documentary makers
F C F G C
(overfed and undertakers).
A Am C D2
Sunday paper backgammon players -
F C F C
family-scarred and women-haters.
F C F G C
Then he called the band down to the the stage
F C
and he looked at all
Dm A7(4) Am C C9/F# F
the friends he'd made.
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