Key: G major
Verse 1
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I was in a library once,
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and I was looking up the word
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inept in the dictionary.
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And above the dictionary
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there was a girl in a chair reading Dante.
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So this guy listens his tie
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rather suavely,
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and says in a knowing voice,
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Ah, may I call you Beatrice?
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And the next thing he knew,
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his nose was flattened
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en and hell.
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in the head of the moon.
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making you wax tongue -tied,
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you go to Sans.
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no one's home
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An d I say, I don't believe we've met
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I don't believe you've had the privilege
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D
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When the wind,
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when the wind,
when the wind blows cold
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And the eyes of the child grow old
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D
Em
When the erratic conga
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Rises and falls
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above the faithful metronome
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the gravestone
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Sink or strain from the weight
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of the cloak
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Lifted his favorite chair,
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D
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no one else the world around
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in a book on his pants or chair
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When the wind, when the wind,
when the wind blows cold
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And the eyes of a child grow old
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When the erratic conga
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rises and falls
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Above the faithful metronome
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You can take me back to the gravestone
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with a ring in her pocket
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D
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in a room in another town
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And the ring's getting heavy, so is the crown,
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but she drags through the chair filled with it to keep the swelling down
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When the wind, when the wind,
when the wind blows cold
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And the eyes of the child grow old
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Em
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When here I conga, rises and falls
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Above the faithful metronome
When the bird in the bush,
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from the Eugolian horizon
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and the phone in the phone
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keeps on ringing
And just thinking about
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the one who got away
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And he's thinking about the one
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who got away
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And he's thinking, and he's thinking
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What you think I am?
Outro 1
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