Tom: D major
Verse 1
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wretched party
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stood and prayed
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Under the lashing rain an
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The ropes fell through the handles,
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the coffin sloping under
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The earth slipped through black fingers
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At the graveside where she stooped
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And an ill wind howling through her veil
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For a man who served no good,
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D
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he served no good
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C
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He never was an evil man,
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D
hard but fair, his mother said
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A timid youth of ridicule,
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each schoolday made him quake with dread
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In the showers and the rugby field,
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the bullies came to play
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But he vowed they all would pay,
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they all would pay!
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Like his father in the coldstream guards,
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he was soon in married quarters
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Licked his way up through the ranks,
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he had no time for sons and daughters
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She waits on him, the sweet young thing
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Repenting at her leisure
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Like a blinkered mount he charges on
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How much longer is her tether
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D
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F#m
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while so lovingly she spurned him
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B
F#m
For time had stole ungraciously all
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the dreams she'd been yearning
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No joyous cries of children,
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is this marriage granite firm
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It breaks his heart that seeds can't grow,
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Em
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from a bag of watered sperm
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He joined the prison service,
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she broke the chains and left him
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For the first time he was all alone,
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a demon's soul possessed him
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An institute of misery,
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in a painful sea of darkness
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And from inside his tortured mind,
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cruel, bleak and heartless
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A
An angry mob was breaking out from
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the chokey cells an d 'D' wing
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Tonight the hard lags call me tune,
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come the dawn, no birds will sing
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No more raining down the stick,
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a violent end draws nigh
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Am
Em
No hope, no tears, no mercy, for the life of this small fry!
Outro 1
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