A Question Of Sport chords by
Martin Carthy

N/A•

Key: C major•

Verse 1

C

C

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Oh, I am humanity, cast in the flood,

Wavy liberties, I come among you.

Bb

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F

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C

C

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I ride the ark on a sea of blood,

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G

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C

C

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They call me the Great Byzantium.

Gm

Gm

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A sword like the dove,

F

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C

C

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released in the air,

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When they tossed me through the window,

C

C

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tied to a chair,

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C

C

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Landed in the middle of Tra

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C

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falgar Square,

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Come to visit all your bad

C

C

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dreams upon you.

Now the first that I met

Em

Em

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when I came in to land,

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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Was the phantom grocer's daughter.

Bb

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F

F

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C

C

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She cried aloud how sorry I am,

G

G

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There wasn't anybody here

Em

Em

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but a courtier.

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C

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Gm

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She crooned in my ear

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F

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C

C

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like I knew she could,

Her cabinet briefing on the

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C

C

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misunderstood,

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F

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C

C

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Played my wounds in her

very own blood,

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G

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C

C

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Calling on the world press to support her.

Oh, the cameras rattled

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G

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and the questions flew

C

C

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C

C

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Everybody sang a whole Britannia

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F

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C

C

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Cabinet junked up two by two

G

G

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Joining in with their own memoranda

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Em

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C

C

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Gm

Gm

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There went max imum leverage,

C

C

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minimum force

You get your dividend

but you've got to stay the course

F

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C

C

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Sang as they all trooped off to the house

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C

C

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G

G

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Em

Em

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C

C

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Bb

Bb

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God save our gracious Tina

C

C

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F

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C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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Gm

Gm

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C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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C

C

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F

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C

C

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C

C

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C

C

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Am

Am

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Oh, they knew by the bruising

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around my body

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C

C

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G

G

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Achilles was a threat to the nation

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C

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Knew that menace to knife and limb

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C

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Was a matter of interpretation

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Gm

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C

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They had me down at the dog track,

running like a hare

I was huge on the replay

screens up there

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C

C

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Crowds flung their hats in the air

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Marvelling at my acceleration

Oh, they heard me cry

when I fell among thieves

The Billy Cup beat, a tattoo on me

Bb

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Joined the brokers and

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C

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crowded the eaves

Jostling to get the best of view of me

Gm

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They sang, suffer little children

C

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and see how they run

G

G

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As the tear gas flew

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and the shambop sang

F

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C

C

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Still, as the white -worn necklace purred,

They prayed out aloud for

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their piece of me.

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Oh, the Birdmen of Polesmoor

C

C

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Em

Em

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ranged in the dark,

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G

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Radman come to saddle

C

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up and ride them.

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Birdmen of Polesmoor built

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F

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C

C

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them an ark,

G

G

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C

C

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No divine telegram to guide them.

Gm

Gm

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C

C

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F

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C

C

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Radman shouted, Radman cajoled,

G

G

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Did the township jive with a

C

C

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phone -toe call,

F

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C

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Words of the Birdmen spangled the wall,

A weeping, -gassed diadem

It said, I am humanity, cast in the flood

The way of liberty as I come among you

Bb

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F

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C

C

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I ride the ark on a sea of blood

They call me the great Azaniel

Gm

Gm

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C

C

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A sword like the dove, released in the air

G

G

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You left me for dead at

the foot of the stem

F

F

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And when I rise in the middle

C

C

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at your palace square

C

C

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Resurrections all around you

Outro 1

G

G

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C

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Bb

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Gm

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C

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Chords

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Em
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