Key: C major•
Verse 1
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They called me Margaretha
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Am
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the day I was born
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G
s called me H21
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C
I named myself after the sun
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I was a teacher when I was
Verse 2
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young
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But I ran away from home
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Dm
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To the East In dies and warm,
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To wed a man I did not know
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He called me Lady
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My complaints as drinking
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dragged him down
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So in dancing peace I found
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They called me a tourist when
Verse 3
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I began to dance
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An amateur and courtesan
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I named myself after the sun
Verse 4
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cared much for their war
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I had seen men fight before
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Em
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Seen the sickness in their esprit de corps
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I would dance for them no more
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G
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They came to take me away
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Am
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From the Hotel Champs Elysée
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Told the soldiers I'd noth
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ing to say
They wouldn't have listened
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F#dim
anyway
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E
Too many men had died,
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and somebody had to pay
They set a date for my
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dy ing day
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But as I stood in that killing field, refusing
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a blindfold
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Staring down the soldiers and the hatred
of the world
and I smiled for them all
They all thought they
had the best of me
Verse 6
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C
darkness came
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D
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E
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I whispered my real name
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D
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I am Mata Hari, eye of the day
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In the cells my body lay unclaimed
Interlude 1
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If anybody asks, I named my self after the
Verse 7
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sun
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I named myself after the sun
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC Am G F D...
C
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G
F
D
Dm
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F#dim
E
Capo: No capo
Transpose: 0
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