Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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back in late '43
I've never seen the man
on the poster before
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But my friends say he was a big star before the war
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Verse 2
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The boy by the door,
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louder than a bomb
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All the way down the street
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you heard his song
Freddie Frost gives his
last will live on stage
Roll up, roll up for the show of a lifetime
Verse 3
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Sat in upholstery that was once brilliant
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and looked around
There were duchesses and dukes,
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his last grasp at life
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The grand centerpiece was a gold
green sarcophagus
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pictures pictures of the man
First of all, a film to explain
dream
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Adim
Afterwards, music started and a young girl ran on with operatic screams
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
his sixty-five daughters
daughters
Who told through opera,
of his life's importance
They sang of his exploits all over the Earth
His likes and dislikes,
his undoubtable worth
And after a last crescendo where they
all cried as one
They hurried quickly off,
but the music played on
From within his sarcophagus rose
a spot-lit withered withered hand
Mister Frost emerged, and to the racing beat he
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danced
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With the vital energy of
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a newborn chimp
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He spun and he spun and he spun
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and he spun and spun
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Hopelessly wrinkled and by
regained his composure
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And started to sing
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Verse 5
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Em
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A
I won't be too long
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Just twenty-seven questions questions
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to finish this song
Verse 6
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that can survive castration?
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A future where a man can go
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a year without hydration?
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Is it only black you see when
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Em
Will I forever be a mediocrity?
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A hideous glut with trembling knees?
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In death will I see the girls
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Intangibly dressed, invisibly seamed?
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Will the sun burn out? Will my corpse
grow a beard?
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Will I find a home, or go to waste?
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Em
In Heaven, do the morals of Earth still stand?
'twixt beast and man?
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Is there such a thing as a
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Any lost secret to eternal youth?
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Do nuns fornicate? And
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do scientists pray?
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Is a sin committed every moment
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of every day?
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Verse 7
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That's not quite twenty-seven
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But But my chest feels awful tight
So thank you for listening
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good
night"
Verse 8
size of a hot air balloon
Red as all hellfire and loud
as Satan's siren
And he wheezed and moaned
in pain as he rose
But we all just laughed at the sad,
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old oaf
Outro 1
Laughed all the way home
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