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G G C Em
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When I was King I was not really the man I am now
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G Am G C
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I was like anyone sitting on a throne made out of china
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G G C Em
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When I was king I had already abdicated
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C Am G C
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Already melted my crown down to sell as scrap
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C
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But they'd run the first run of stamps
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D G
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People had cashed in their post office savings
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C D C
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To buy some and lick the back of my neck
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(C) D
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I just let them get on with it arrange the coronation
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G C
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I just didn't turn up, I just didn't turn up
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You became Queen to a regime of fixed ideas
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The subjects just outlines like figures in a shadow cabinet
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And then we ruled over some green and pleasant land
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With a frog and a princess not necessarily in that order
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But if you want it to be What you want it to be
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You'll have to dethrone me or have me decapitated
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I didn't want to be King anyway I always preferred to hang out
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with the servants, the servants
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When I was King
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When I was King there was no country left to rule
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Jesters and fools were leaders all of them a royal pain
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Now I'm a serf but I'm still trying to be a king
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But putting the crown on is like putting a silk purse on a sow's ear
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And if I want it to be Like I want it to be
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I'll have to assassinate someone with a guitar as a gun
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On it's good to be King I know that I've been there
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G G
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Many, many, many, many kingdoms ago When I was King
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Repeat when I when I over G and C
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WHEN I WAS KING
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| Graham Parker |
