Graham Greene chords by
John Cale
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Key: G major

Verse 1
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
You're having
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
tea with Graham Greene
F# F# 
 
In a colored costume of  your choice
B B 
 
E E 
 
And you'll be held in high esteem
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C# C# 
 
F# F# 
 
If you're seen in between
E E 
 
B B 
 
Stiffly holding umbrellas
E E 
 
B B 
 
Catching the fellows making the toast
E E 
 
B B 
 
To the civil servant Carruthers
C# C# 
 
F# F# 
 
Making the others worser than most

Verse 2
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
You're making small talk
E E 
 
B B 
 
now with the Queen
F# F# 
 
And the elegant ladies in waiting
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
You're very nervous they can all tell
C# C# 
 
F# F# 
 
Pretty well they can tell
E E 
 
So save yourselves for
B B 
 
the hounds of hell
E E 
 
They can have you all to themselves
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
Since the fashion now is to give away
C# C# 
 
F# F# 
 
All the things   you love so well

Verse 3
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
Welcome back to Chipping and Sodbury
G#m G#m 
 
F# F# 
 
You can have  another chance
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
F# F# 
 
It must all seem like second nature
E E 
 
Chopping down the people where
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
they stand
E E 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
According to the latest score
F# F# 
 
Mr. Enoch Powell is  falling star
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
So in fu ture please bear in mind
C# C# 
 
F# F# 
 
Don't see clear don't see far
E E 
 
B B 
 
When the average social director
E E 
 
Mistook a passenger for
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the conductor
E E 
 
B B 
 
So shocking see the old Church of E
C# C# 
 
Looking down on you and me

Outro 1

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