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Key: B minor•
Verse 1
Bm
Bm
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Cellophane grandfather clock
I hope your hands will never stop
Rescue me from my ugly block
F#m
F#m
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In Tokyo, 21st century
Bm
Bm
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To London, 1888
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I am descended from a great
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Clan of the Meiji shogunate
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And I am travelling extensively
Em
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It's
Verse 2
London 1888
I sit here drinking nettle wine
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My family is in decline
Em
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And I confess the fault is mine
The doorman's sure to sit and wait
To see who I'll bring home tonight
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I'll pay him cash to keep him quiet
I am a libertine
Bm
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Cellophane
Verse 3
grandfather clock
You've got my conscience
on the trot
You've got me walking
round the block
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You've got me searching for experience
Bm
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Cellophane grandfather clock
I am a Buddhist, I am not
Victorian, I love your shops
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But your morality is meaningless
Em
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It's
Verse 4
London 1888
And I have learned the game of chess
F#m
F#m
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I have a club, it's on the Strand
I'm a dishonourable man
Em
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And Tokyo is far away
The English wear a poker face
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The latest craze is called 'Croquet'
C#m
C#m
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I am a stranger here
Verse 5
F#m
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C#m
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F#m
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C#m
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I am the Marquis Matsugae
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C#m
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And I came questioning through time
C
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But is the grave my sole reply?
Verse 6
Bm
Bm
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And Sherlock Holmes is my good friend
I have a trust fund I can spend
And I am ready to defend
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My immorality to any one
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F#m
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And Whistler painted me in grey
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I had his mother round to stay
And she sat knitting in her chair
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And staring through me disapprovingly
Verse 7
Em
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And Aubrey Beardsley
sketches me
And Oscar Wilde comes round for tea
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But I still feel so Japanese
When I'm alone on Piccadilly
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And in Green Park there is a band
Medieval lillie in my hand
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I watch the sailors on the bus
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A little lustfully
Verse 8
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C#m
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I am the Marquis
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C#m
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Matsugae
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C#m
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I came adventuring in time
C
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But is the grave my sole reply?
Verse 9
Bm
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Cellophane grandfather clock
I hear you ticking while I talk
In my apartment on Pall Mall
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To stable boys of easy provenance
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Cellophane grandfather clock
The incense on my mantelpiece
Covers the reek of smelly socks
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As I prepare them to be compromised
Verse 10
Em
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It's London 1888
It's 6 o'clock and I am late
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For some disreputable date
With sordid appetites I hate
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I hope these crimes will never stop
And like the hands upon
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the clock
My hands will touch and he'll respond
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And go beyond
Verse 11
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C#m
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F#m
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C#m
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I am the Marquis Matsugae
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And I came questioning through time
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C
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But is the grave my sole
Interlude 1
reply?
Bm
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F#m
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Bm
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F#m
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Verse 12
Em
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It's London 1888
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Em
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I am the Marquis Matsugae
And I came questioning through time
And is the grave my sole reply?

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