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Breakfast In Mayfair chords by Fairport Convention

  • D

  • Em

  • G

  • F#m

    2
  • Am

Verse 1
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"The world has surely lost it's head,
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the news is full of crimes
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There's robberies in The Telegraph
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and there's murders in The Times
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And always more obituaries
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and even one of these
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Concerns the brutal slaughter of one old
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Miss Emma Keyes
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The police have got their man, they're sure,
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he never left the scene
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Indeed, he raised a hue and cry,
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a most unusual thing
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An ar sonist, a murderer,
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his soul will soon be frying
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He's young but old enough to kill
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and not too young for dying
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Now it seems the populace
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will queue to see him stand in court
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To hear him speak his wicked lies
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while smiling at his thoughts
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This ar rogant young ruffian
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is obviously guilty
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Though nowhere does it say exactly how or why he killed her"
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"Forget it dear, it's not the first,
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there's bound to be another
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The way you carry on you'll have us thinking
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she's your mother
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This man called Lee has had his day
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and soon he'll be forgotten
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So put that paper down before your breakfast goes
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quite rotten"
Outro 1
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