Chords
Oscar Wilde Gets Out

Key: A

Introduction:

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Freedom for the scape goat, let him rot in jail
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Gloomy eyes, just pissed his heart like crucifixion nails
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Shake his fists and raise his beam, he never stood a chance
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When the angry red mob on Fleet Street you turned your eyes to friends
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Humble thought from Dublin chased across the waves
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Your body still sharp enough to slice through every page
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Destitute and beaten by the system of the crown
         Am         G               Bb/F  F                         E7                         Am 
The bitter pill you swallowed take the sweet of going down
         Dm                                     E7               Am 
And looking back with a great indifference
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Looking back at the lime stone walls
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Thinking how beauty deceived you
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Knowing how the fools are fought
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A golden boy in velvet landed in New York
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The past was so seductive when they paid to hear you talk
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Baccarat and champagne flutes, tobacco from Virginia
 Am         G               Bb/F           F                       E7                       Am 
Long before the lords and Lord granted Oscar Wilde a sinner
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Looking back on a cold, bleak winter
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Looking back on those long, dark days
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Set like the head of Joan the Baptist
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In the other sour May
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Don't turn around if you watch out screaming
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Don't cry out loud, you never know who's listening
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You've seen it all the exiled Unforgiven
                   Bb                             F                           Am 
From the stately homes of England to her prisons
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Looking back at the hard life
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Looking back at the wretched war
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Taken back there for my savior
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Strange to think I'll miss them all
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Strange to thing I'll miss them all
         Dm                                     E7               Am 
And looking back with a great indifference
 Dm                                   E7                 Am 
Looking back at the lime stone walls
 Bb                                       Am 
Thinking how beauty deceived you
 Dm                                                    E7 
Knowing how the fools are fought
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