King's Call chords by
Budgie
Budgie
Phil Lynott
Phil Lynott
Thin Lizzy
Thin Lizzy

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Key: F# minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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It was a rainy night
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the night the king went down
Everybody was crying it seemed like
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sadness had surrounded the town
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Me I went to the liquor store
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And I bought a bottle
of wine and a bottle of gin
I played his records all night
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Drinking with a close, close friend
Verse 2
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Now some people say
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that that ain't right
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And some people say nothing at all
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But even in the darkest of night
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You can always hear the king's call
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You can always hear the king's call
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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Well they put him away in Memphis
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Six feet beneath the clay
Everybody was crying
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Everybody said it was a plain grey day
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Verse 4
Me I went to the liquor store
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And I bought another bottle
of wine and another bottle of gin
I played his records all night
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And I got drunk all over again
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Now some
Verse 5
people say that
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that ain't right
That ain't right
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And some people say nothing at all
I say nothing
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But even in the darkest of night
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You could always hear the king's call
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You could always hear
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the king's call
Verse 6
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I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
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And I'd rather go on
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hearing your lies
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Than to go on living without you
Verse 7
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Bm

Now some people say that
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that ain't right
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And some people say nothing
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at all I say nothing
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But even in the darkest of night
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You could always hear the king's call
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You could always hear the
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king's call
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You could always hear the king's call
Now the stage is bare and
I'm standing here
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They might as well bring
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the curtain down
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I cried the night the king died
Outro 1
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