Tom: A major
Intro 1
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D
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Verse 1
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Now the Swan
C
G
it floated on the English river
Ah the Rose of High Ro
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G
mance it opened wide
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Em
A sun tanned woman yearned me
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G
through the summer
D
And the judges watched us
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from the other side
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Verse 2
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I told my mother "Mother
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I must leave you
Preserve my room but
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G
do not shed a tear
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Em
Should rumour of a shabby
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G
ending reach you
D
It was half my fault and
C
half the atmosphere"
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Verse 3
But the Rose I sickened
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G
with a scarlet fever
C
And the Swan I tempted with a
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sense of shame
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Em
C
G
She said at last I was her finest lover
A
D
And if she withered I would be to blame
Verse 4
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C
The judges said you missed
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it by a fraction
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Rise up and brace your troops
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for the attack
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Em
Ah the dreamers ride again
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G
st the men of action
D
C
G
Oh see the men of action falling back
Verse 5
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C
But I lingered on her thighs
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a fatal moment
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G
I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still
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Em
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G
My falsity had stung me like a hornet
D
C
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The poison sank and it paralyzed my will
Verse 6
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C
I could not move to warn all the
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younger soldiers
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That they had been deserted from above
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Em
So on battlefields from here
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G
to Barcelona
A
D
I'm listed with the enemies of love
Verse 7
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C
G
And long ago she said "I must be leaving,
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G
Ah but keep my body here to lie upon
B
Em
You can move it up and down
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and when I'm sleeping
D
Run some wire through that
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Rose and wind the Swan"
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Verse 8
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So daily I renew my idle duty
C
I touch her here and there,
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I know my place
B
Em
I kiss her open mouth and I
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G
praise her beauty
D
C
G
And people call me traitor to my face
Outro 1
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B
Em
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D
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