A Tragic Story chords by Audra McDonald

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Verse 1
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There lived a sage in days of yore,
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And he a handsome pigtail wore,
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But wondered much and
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sorrowed more,
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Because it hung behind him.
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He  mused upon this curious case,
And swore he'd change the pigtail's place,
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And have it hanging at his face,
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Not dangling there behind him.
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Say he, the mystery I found,
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I'll turn me round.
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He turned him round,
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but still it hung behind him.
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Then round and round and out and in,
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all day the puzzled
sage did spin.
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In  vain it mattered, not a pin,
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the pigtail hung behind him.
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And right an d left and round about
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And up and down and in and out
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He turned, but still the pigtails stowed
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Hung steadily behind him
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And though his ef forts never slack
And though he twist and twirl and tack
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Alas, still faithful to his back
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The pigtail hangs! you