Key: D major•
Verse 1
D
G
Bm
A friend once said that a man called
Ted
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D
One day had a bright idea
G
Bm
He said my savings are getting slimmer
C
D
But I think that I'm on a winner
C
F
D
I need me a girl of independent means
G
E
Am
To sponsor my counterfeit
E
Am
These investing pensions
A
D
On my unique invention
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D
International money machine
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F
D
G
I've earned them
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D
But now I think I'll roll them
C
F
D
G
If I get them rollers turning brown
E
Am
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G
I've had multi -billion pounds
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D
Me and my lady and my ma
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Dm
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chine
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Bm
So in the back room of a back street
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D
G
The money machine began
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D
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Ted was as wealthy as could be,
E
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D
living his life of luxury
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E
Thanks to his counterfeit
Am
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D
Queen and his multi -million dream
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Bm
His dollar, dime, cents, pounds, shillings and pence,
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D
international money machine
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Not one solitary na
Bm
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tion was free from
C
Elgin,
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Frank,
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Yen
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Am
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G
Turn their rollers round again
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Am
Round and round they go
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G
And the counterfeit money would flow
D
Em
Bm
Em
The rollers kept on turning
Bm
Em
Bm
Em
Me I just kept turning
Bm
E
My machine, my lady and me
Am
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D
We're as happy as we can
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Dm
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be
G
Bm
Then a technical hitch to the progress,
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D
the rollers ceased to roll
G
Bm
The ink and paper was loaded,
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but the money machine exploded
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D
G
Said his years of deep devotion,
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D
tumbled down in one explosion
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He never made money again,
Am
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D
but his coffee was designed the same
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International money machine
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The government showed
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Ted's deceased investment
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It ain't a colonial thing to do,
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Am
D
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but now the government make it too
Am
D
MBE, awarded posthumously
Outro 1
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D
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD G Bm C F...
D
G
Bm
C
F
E
Am
A
Dm
Em
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