The Fall Of The House Of Harding chords by John Wesley Harding

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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I was
burdened by the hopes
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of an ailing, failing family.
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It  fell to me to marry,
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to preserve the family fame.
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Mother's stupid snobbery,
my father's desperate gambling,
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Combined to lose the deeds
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to all we owned
Except our name
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And so Mother brings me heiresses
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The weak -chinned and the widowed
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The simpering, the whimpering
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They queue to be my wife
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And I treat them all with diffidence
Even feign an interest
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But I regret
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I didn't save my elder brother's life
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It's goodbye
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May the family hall fall
Into ruins all around us
Collapse onto my mother
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And her evil little schemes
She'd be better dead than living
If her ghost was not forgiving
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She could haunt the stone forever
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and destroy all of our dreams
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Cause they sold my little sister
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into some strange form of slavery
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She's living somewhere far away
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with someone that she hates
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But I know she must be smiling
cause that whore escaped this hell hole
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And the one revenge I have
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occurs the moment it's too late
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When I die
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You'd think I might be pining
for some paupered little country girl
My folks won't let me marry
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cos she doesn't have a  sue
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Then maybe she'd inherit
some unexpected legacy
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That's just reserved for nobles,
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need not worry me and you
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Cos there's no one in this world
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for me will ever make me happy
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My attentions don't lie elsewhere,
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well, they don't even exist
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And the truth is I could marry
any pampered little socialite
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But the family's on the edge,
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they're looking down at the abyss
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So goodbye to all my creditors,
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au revoir you heiresses,
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adios my doctors
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and adieu to all of you
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Bad news to you my family,
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bad news for you all,
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our house is all in ruins now,
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I  will be our foe
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And this is how it seems to me,
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must I prolong the agony?
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We're weak -willed and
we're spineless
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and we don't know why we're here
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And our name'd be better on a tomb,
so leave me with my opium
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I haven't even got the strength
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to muster any fear
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So goodbye
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Goodbye
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