Key: D major
Verse 1
D
Em
D
Am
Em
A
wretched party
G
Asus4
stood and prayed
Asus4
G
Em
the coffin sloping under
Asus4
At the graveside where she stooped
Am
G
Em
G
And an ill wind howling through her veil
Am
Asus4
For a man who served no good,
Em
G
Asus4
D
Asus4
Em
D
he served no good
Asus4
Em
C
G
Em
He never was an evil man,
C
Am
G
D
hard but fair, his mother said
C
G
A timid youth of ridicule,
C
G
D
each schoolday made him quake with dread
C
G
In the showers and the rugby field,
C
G
the bullies came to play
Em
D
A
Asus4
Em
D
they all would pay!
Asus4
Em
C
Em
C
Like his father in the coldstream guards,
G
D
he was soon in married quarters
C
Em
Licked his way up through the ranks,
C
G
D
he had no time for sons and daughters
C
G
She waits on him, the sweet young thing
C
G
Repenting at her leisure
C
D
G
Like a blinkered mount he charges on
D
Em
D
How much longer is her tether
Asus4
Em
D
Asus4
Em
F#m
C#m
while so lovingly she spurned him
Em
B
F#m
For time had stole ungraciously all
F#sus4
F#m
D
It breaks his heart that seeds can't grow,
A
C#m
D
A
Asus4
Em
D
Asus4
Em
D
from a bag of watered sperm
Asus4
Em
D
Asus4
Em
C
G
He joined the prison service,
C
G
D
she broke the chains and left him
C
G
For the first time he was all alone,
C
G
D
a demon's soul possessed him
C
G
An institute of misery,
C
G
in a painful sea of darkness
C
G
And from inside his tortured mind,
D
Em
cruel, bleak and heartless
D
A
An angry mob was breaking out from
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Am
Em
come the dawn, no birds will sing
G
D
No more raining down the stick,
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D
Am
Em
No hope, no tears, no mercy, for the life of this small fry!
Outro 1
Em
Em
D
Asus4
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D
Em
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Asus4
Em
D
Em
D
Em
Asus4
A
Em
D
Asus4
Em
D
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A
Em
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Asus4
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Em
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Asus4
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Asus4
Em
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