Fable of the Urban Fox chords by
Arab Strap

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Key: E minor•

Verse 1
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They came in from the country
They were hounded from
their homes
They'd always dreamed
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about the city
With its towers and spires and domes
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So the dog fox and his vixen
Vowed to flee their savage fields
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To a land of hope and glory

Verse 2
And a future it could yield
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There's no rest however
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far we roam
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Somewhere on this earth,
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we will find home
Em Em 
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Verse 3
But the city didn't want the foxes,
the city didn't care
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Their help and hope and heart and hearth
they dreamed of weren't there
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So they scavenged and they foraged
Slept from shitty place to places
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Among the hostile architecture

Verse 4
And all the hostile faces
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There's no rest however
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far we roam
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Somewhere on this earth,
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we will find home

Verse 5
Em Em 
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And the daily papers found their plight
and presence most concerning
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Their headlines screamed enough's enough,
we're overcome with vermin
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These fucks that skulk around our streets
The locals live in fear
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These scruffy scrounging parasites

Verse 6
They don't belong 'round here
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There's no rest however
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far we roam
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Somewhere on this earth,
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we will find home
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Verse 7
One night they met a bulldog
He said, "What you doing here, then?"
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They told him of the redcoats,
of their fallen the hunted brethren
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They said, "There is  no going home now,
the land we love is cruel"
The dog said,
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"Fuck off back to Foxland, these streets are fucking full"

Verse 8

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There's no rest however

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far we roam

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Somewhere on this earth,

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we will find home

Interlude 1
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D D 
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Em Em 
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D D 
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Em Em 
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D D 
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Em Em 
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Verse 9
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One cold and hungry night,
they find their dinner sitting pretty
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The foxes can't believe their luck,
who keeps chickens in the city?
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But the chicken lover sees them
prowl his pricey habitat
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So he bashes both their heads in