Ralph mellish chords by Monty Python

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Verse 1
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June 4th, 1973
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was much like any other summer's
day
in Peterborough, and Ralph Mellish,
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a file clerk at an insurance company,
was on his way to work as usual,
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when nothing happened.
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Scarcely able to believe his eyes,
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Ralph Mellish looked down,
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but one glance confirmed
his suspicions.
Behind a bush, on the side of the road,
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there was no severed arm,
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no dismembered trunk
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of a man in his late fifties,
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no head in a bag, nothing, not a  soul.
For Ralph Metsch,
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this was not to be the start
of any trail of events
which would not, in no time at all,
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involve him
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in neither a tangled knot of suspicion
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nor   any web of lies which
Which would,
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had he been not uninvolved,
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surely have led him to no other
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place
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than the central criminal court
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of the Old Bailey.
But it was not to be.
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Ralph Mellish reached his office
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in Dalzell Street, Peterborough at 9 .05am. Exactly
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the same time as he usually got in .
Morning Mr. Mellish.
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Morning Enid.
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En id, a sharp eyed
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clever young girl
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who had been with the firm
for only four weeks,
couldn't help noticing
the complete absence
of tiny but telltale blood stains
on Mr. Mellish's clothing.
Nor did she notice anything strange
in Mr. Mellish's behaviour
that whole morning,
nor the next morning,
nor at any time before or since the entire
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period she worked with that firm.
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Have the new paperclips arrived, Enid?
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Yes, they're over there, Mr. Mellish.
But for the lack of any untoward
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circumstances
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for this young secretary to notice,
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and the total non -involvement
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of Mr. Mellish in anything illegal,
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the full weight of the law
would have ensured
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that Ralph Aldous Mellish
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would have ended up,
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Like all who challenge the
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fundamental laws
of our society,
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in an iron coffin with spikes on the inside.
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Turn that thing off!
You'll be late for the bus,
it's nearly half past nine.
It was indeed nearly half past nine.
Now off you go!
Off I went,
on a perfectly ordinary kind of day.